Cyber Security Governance Specialist

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2026-0094

Role Background

The objective of this engagement is to provide governance and coordination support for enterprise cybersecurity governance activities, specifically supporting the Cyber Lessons Learned (LL) and NATO Enterprise Cybersecurity Scorecard (Scorecard) processes.

They will assist CDT in coordinating stakeholders, supporting reporting activities and ensuring that cybersecurity governance processes are executed in a structured, consistent and traceable manner.

The engagement focuses on supporting two main work packages:

• Cyber Lessons Learned coordination and process support
• Cybersecurity Scorecard oversight

They will provide coordination and documentation support but will not perform operational cybersecurity activities or entity-level assessments.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Supporting the implementation and operationalization of the Cyber Lessons Learned process across relevant cybersecurity stakeholders
• Engaging stakeholders involved in the relevant cybersecurity processes
• Coordinating the capture and structuring of lessons learned information
• Supporting documentation of changes made to procedures or documentation resulting from lessons learned
• Supporting the organization and documentation of Lessons Learned coordination meetings and workshops
• Supporting the maintenance of templates, repositories or portals used to capture lessons learned information
• Supporting coordination of the Assessment Team (including contractors) performing Scorecard activities
• Reviewing contractor outputs and providing quality assurance observations to CDT
• Maintaining oversight documentation such as tracking dashboards, issue logs and status summaries

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