Contractor Support to Electromagnetic Operations & Electromagnetic Warfare

McBride has an exciting opportunity to support Allied Command Transformation (ACT) which 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; improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organizations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Support the ACT JISR-JE Branch Head, JE Capability Program Director and Project Coordinators in their program management efforts, including the interaction with Joint & Multi-Domain Effects stakeholders at all levels, from strategic to tactical.
  
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of capability requirements.
  
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of higher and lower-level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.) across all aspects of DOTMLPFI.
  
• Support the ACT JE Capability Program Director and the EMO/EW Project Coordinator in their program management efforts, including the interaction with EMO/EW stakeholders at all levels, from strategic to tactical.
  
• Support the development, analysis and review of EMO/EW related doctrinal corpus (e.g. policies, doctrines, directives concepts of operation/employment, courses of action and alternatives).
  
• Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development, across the capabilities life cycles.
  
• Organize and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above
  
• Collaborate with national and international military and civilian organizations, including centers of excellence and academia, in support of the activities above.
  
• Administration of EMO/EW capabilities development programs status information in the electronic environment supporting ACT warfare development information sharing and coordination.
  
• Support the interaction with NATO Agencies in context of the EMO/EW capabilities development programs and validation of capabilities.
  
• Identify lessons and Best Practices and contribute to their learning within the organization.
  
• Support the ACT JE Capability Program Director and the EMO/EW Project Coordinator and travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO’s boundaries for up to 40 days per year.
  
• Perform additional tasks as required by JISR-JE Branch Head, JE Capability Program Director and the COTR related to program management efforts.
  

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrate 3 years’ experience in the last 10 in briefing senior leaders/decision makers.
  
• Demonstrate 5 years operational knowledge of EMO/EW at Tactical or Joint level (e.g. Joint Interface Control Officer- JICO and Multi-interface tactical data link experience; Navigation Warfare-NAVWAR, Precision Navigation and Timing-PNT, and Battle space Spectrum Management-BSM) within the last 12 years either as a military officer or as a civilian.
  
• Demonstrable knowledge of project management principles; with or without certificate in Program and Project Management (e.g. MSP and PRINCE2) and demonstrated success in applying them to deliver capabilities within a complex and dynamic program environment, with a focus on military capability development.
  
• Demonstrable experience working in a multinational organization (e.g. European Defense Agency) or NATO Command Structure (NCS) / NATO Force Structure (NFS) and familiarity with NATO agencies’ role in system development.
  

Education and Clearance:

• Master’s degree or similar national academic or Military College qualification in engineering, information systems, computer science, project management, business administration or related disciplines.
  
• Can be substituted with Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field.
  
• Active NATO or National SECRET (or higher) security clearance.