Project Management (Technical Event Planning)

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

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

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program 

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

 DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate and contribute to the activities of the CIS Branch Digital Backbone Capability development Team.
• Define/ refine demonstration, test, and experimentation (DTE) event (e.g. DiBaX and CWIX) objectives that are aligned with capability development and operational needs. This entails working with subject matter expertise including, but not limited to HQ SACT, other subordinate entities, NATO HQ,NCIA, and ACO.
• Develop, refine and track for performance to plan of the project plan using project management toolset for events (e.g. DiBaX).
• Develop and provide final versions of event resource requirements that identifies host nation support requirements consistent with existing Memorandum of Understanding (e.g. HQ SACT to Latvian MOD MOU for 5G test site use).
• Support the planning meetings associated with DTE venues and support the integration of capability teams into the events. (e.g. DiBaX, CWIX)
• Support advanced technologies (e.g. Next Gen Communications) industry selection for DTE events by developing criteria, soliciting inputs from nations/industry, scoring of proposal. Proposals will come in the form of Operational Demonstration Test and Experimentation documentation.
• Provide required save-the-date, calling notices and other administrative documentation for soliciting action for internal and outside entities.
• Provide draft and finalize event design and management document in sufficient detail to track implementation.
• Support the elaboration of DOTMLPFI requirements as outputs from the execution of technical demonstration, test and experimentation event.
• Support the development of DTE event risk management plan.
• Support the development of the DTE event security plan.
• Support the development of the DTE registration, observer day and VIP eng