Job Description

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 – CDT-0017

Role Background

The Cyber and Digital Transformation Division (CDT) oversees all aspects of cyber and digital transformation across the entire NATO enterprise and is the principal institutional engine for advancing the Alliance’s agenda on those issues. The division also coordinates on all aspects linked to countering hybrid actions. As a fully integrated civilian-military Division, it combines the strategic insight of the International Staff (IS) with the operational expertise of the International Military Staff (IMS), enabling coherent, credible, and actionable advice to NATO’s senior decision-making bodies. The Readiness and Operations Directorate ensures that NATO’s digital and cyber capabilities are operationally viable, exercised, and maintained at readiness. It plays a pivotal role in translating developed capabilities into operational outputs and enduring services, supporting real-time cyber defence efforts, digital situational awareness, and service assurance across NATO missions. It leads on training, exercises, operational preparedness, and serves as the primary link with the NATO Integrated Cyber Defence Centre (NICC). Feeding back experiences and lessons identified from operations into strategy, policy, plans, capability development, and readiness, the directorate enables continuous improvement and reinforces NATO’s resilience and responsiveness in the information and cyber domains.

The Cyber Readiness (CYR) Section leads and coordinates the implementation of NATO’s cyber strategy, policy and governance by ensuring operational readiness and business continuity, resilience and responsiveness, contributing to the continuous monitoring and improvement of NATO’s cybersecurity posture. The Section is established across four functions:

• Implementation oversight;
• Framework and directive development;
• Learning, training and exercise support;
• Effectiveness measurement and reporting.

The learning, training and exercise support function ensures cyber individual and collective learning, training and exercises across the NATO Enterprise in coordination and complementarity with Alliance-wide initiatives, contributing to the development of skilled and effective cyber workforce for NATO’s future

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Enterprise Pathfinder Exercise Support

Support the planning, development, execution and reporting activities of Enterprise Pathfinder (ENPAF) exercise, a holistic Table Top Exercise (TTX) led by CDT, by:

• Developing the necessary planning, execution and post-execution deliverables, including calling notices, Exercise Specification (EXSPEC), training audience handbooks, storylines, presentations, exercise reports;
• Supporting and coordinating the ENPAF Exercise Group meetings and activities, and reporting to the ENPAF Exercise Director;
• Supporting and coordinating the Enterprise Incident Management (EIM), Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) working level and principal level involvement in all phases of the exercise, within the context of the NATO Integrated Cyber Defence Centre (NICC) way of working;
• Liaising with the relevant stakeholders involved in the planning, development and execution phases of ENPAF;
• Organising and supporting periodic in-person and virtual events for exercise planning, execution and post-execution purposes;
• Capturing, assessing and consolidating observations and lessons identified in
• the ENPAF exercise report.

Cyber-related Exercises Support

Support CDT’s participation to various cyber-related exercises, by:

• Supporting the planning, development, execution and reporting phases of NATO cyber-related exercises, in which the participation of CDT leadership or subject matter experts is required;
• Representing CYR ‘Learning, training and exercise support’ function in the exercises planning and coordination meetings and events of multiple exercises (e.g. Cyber Coalition, Crisis Management Exercises, (CMX), Short Notice Exercise (SNEX));
• Ensuring that the necessary planning, education and execution activities and deliverables are properly coordinated and timely completed;
• Liaising with the relevant stakeholders, including NATO Entities and Allies, involved in the planning, development and execution phases of NATO Exercises;
• Organising periodical in-person and virtual coordination events for exercise planning purposes;
• Further developing and improving the CYR Exercises SharePoint portals, ensuring appropriate information management of all exercise related information;
• Capturing, assessing and consolidating observations and lessons identified.
• Consolidating CDT’s lessons identified from different exercises.

Exercises Continuum Coordination

Support the exercises continuum approach, by:

• Facilitating the identification of potential synergies, gaps and/or missing links, to increase alignment between cyber and related exercises;
• Supporting the creation of efficiencies across the cyber exercises landscape through the convergence of exercise scenarios and re-use of storylines, their supporting elements, and related artefacts as much as possible;
• Supporting CDT’s periodic reporting on the progress implementing the exercise continuum approach;
• Conducting structured data collection, comparison and assessment of current cyber exercises.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• More than 3 years of experience in planning and conducting exercises, preferably in a large organization;
• Excellent knowledge and experience with cybersecurity best practices;
• Good knowledge of the principles, policy and procedures governing cybersecurity, preferably in military and/or defence organizations;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook) and Microsoft 365 ecosystem;
• Experience in content management in a Microsoft SharePoint environment;
• Fluent or Native levels of English ensuring excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to seamlessly engage all levels of staff – from working-level practitioners to senior leadership;
• Exceptional digital literacy with ability to bridge technical, operational, and policy domains;
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines;
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to producing high quality, error-free content;

Desirable Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Experience working with NATO, or equivalent international organizations, supporting exercises;
• Knowledge and experience with the NATO Lessons Learned process;
• Knowledge and Experience of NATO Bi-SC 75-03 Exercise Design and Execution;
• Knowledge of NATO’s security policy and supporting directives Experience in Training Design Analysis;
• Knowledge on NATO cybersecurity processes;
• Knowledge and experience coordinating with multiple stakeholders during the response activities to cybersecurity related incidents in large, geographically sparse organizations;
• Cybersecurity certifications such as CISM, CISSP or equivalent post-graduate degree in cybersecurity is desirable.

Education

• Possess a university degree, or an equivalent qualification;

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• On-site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance