Partnerships Officer — Capability Development and Key Leader Engagement for NATO with security clearance

Relocation to the United States Norfolk Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation runs a wide programme of partnerships with nations outside the alliance. This role supports that branch end to end coordination staff work policy and the preparation behind senior engagements.

What you would be doing

• Contributing to the activities outputs and coordination rhythm of the partnerships branch.
• Acting as a central point of contact for partnership work strands across directorates.
• Developing briefings point papers speaking notes reports and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Developing and reviewing the policies directives concepts and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identifying coordinating and tracking activities programmes of work exercises experiments training and engagements.
• Maintaining corporate memory: information and knowledge management lessons identified document traceability and quality assurance.
• Ensuring partnership activities and information sharing follow the applicable security policy.
• Preparing and executing key leader engagements background papers engagement strategies read-ahead material talking points.
• Travelling to meetings conferences workshops and exercises up to about thirty days a year.

What you would bring

• A postgraduate degree in international relations international security international development or military studies.
• Experience in foreign affairs international security international cooperation or defence.
• Experience inside an alliance structure another international organisation in a defence or security post or a national defence ministry.
• Working knowledge of at least one of: partnerships security sector reform defence and security capacity building defence planning military cooperation.
• Demonstrated experience drafting for and briefing senior leaders flag officers or their civilian equivalents.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year not a short project.