Contractor Support to Exercise Coordination and Alignment Branch, Multi-Domain Force Development Directorate

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:

• Exercise Planning & Coordination
  
• Support the development, refinement, and documentation of exercise-related campaign plans, concepts, and supporting products.
  
• Participate in planning conferences, workshops, and coordination events, ensuring integration of warfare development themes and priorities.
  
• Audacious Training & Warfare Development Support
  
• Assist in implementing and refining Audacious Training Lines of Effort (enhancing realism, leveraging new technology/innovation, and acting on lessons learned).
  
• Support identification, refinement, and documentation of Warfare Development in Exercise ( WDiE ) themes and candidate activities.
  
• Assessment & Reporting
  
• Support after-action review (AAR) and lessons-learned processes, drafting formal reports and recommendations.
  
• Contribute to the development of rolling programmes of work for WDiE and related initiatives.
  
• Stakeholder Engagement
  
• Coordinate with NATO entities (e.g., SHAPE, JWC, JFTC, JATEC, JALLC), partners, and external stakeholders as required.
  
• Track, consolidate, and report on branch contributions to NATO-level guidance (e.g., SACEUR’s Guidance on Education, Training, Exercises, and Evaluation (ETEE).
  
• Administrative & Knowledge Management
  
• Maintain records, schedules, and documentation repositories.
  
• Provide regular progress updates to the designated Project Lead and COTR.
  

Additional Taskings:

• Directly support the Branch Head as required and represent ECAB at meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO boundaries, with anticipated travel requirements of up to 30 days per year.
  
• Perform additional tasks as directed by the COTR that are consistent with the assigned labor category and within the scope of this contract.
  

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in military exercise planning, collective training, or defense transformation initiatives.
  

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in International Relations , Defense /Strategic Studies, Political Science, Emergency Management, or related field; OR equivalent professional experience.