Analyst; Concept Development

Post Context

ACT contributes to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of Alliance member states by leading, at Strategic Command level, Warfare Development required to enhance NATO's posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.

The Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (SPP) acts on behalf of SACT to formulate policies, strategies, engagements, ACT contributions to National Defence Planning Process, and analytical practices that enable the Commander to provide strategic foresight, planning, strategy and policy advice, concepts, and strategic engagement to NATO's political and military leadership. Principal outputs include, but are not limited to: long term strategic foresight, strategic level concepts, situational awareness/strategic anticipation, Minimum Capability Requirements, Draft Capability Targets, Suitability Assessment of Allies and NATO Defence Plans, and regional and functional to security related environments.

The Concept Development Branch is ACT's lead for the development of ACT, Bi-SC and NATO Military Authorities concepts. It provides guidance, advice, and coherence on conceptual development. It develops strategic and operational concepts applying NATO's Concept Development & Experimentation process.

The Staff Officer for the development of concepts works as a member of a multi-national joint team, contributing to the transformation of NATO's military capabilities.

• Manages and coordinates Concept Development & Experimentation Projects and Activities.
• Designs, organizes and performs strategic analysis activities to enable and support the development of strategic concepts, helping to shape the relevant documents and bringing clarity, preciseness, completeness and coherence to the whole process.
• Conducts research to develop solution‑oriented transformational ideas that address capability gaps. This is an ongoing duty which includes attending conferences, conducting or participating in workshops, utilizing post‑experiment/exercise data, considering lessons identified/learned, and being familiar with existing concepts and NATO policies to ensure consistency between documents.
• Conducts strategic analysis in support of Concept Development, in order to determine the required and relevant aspects of the military system over the spectrum of doctrine, organization, training, material, leadership, personnel, facilities and interoperability (DOTMLPFI).
• Conducts strategic analysis in support of Concept Development to determine the feasibility, validity and robustness of concepts, and establish their benefits and value. Supports the design and conduct experimentation and test/validation activities.
• Analyses the usefulness of proposed solutions stemming from Concept Development in order to determine their potential contribution to NATO's future capability.
• Serve as an expert in operational experimentation and participate as a team member in the planning, execution, analysis and reporting of experiments.

• University Degree and 2 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
• 4 years' experience in the application of Concept Development, Strategic and Operational Research/Analysis, Systems Analysis, Experimentation or related techniques in a military environment.
• Practical experience of managing programs & projects concerned with the conduct of studies that address the impact of military capability change.
• Expertise in applying analytical methods to defence domain issues. Methods may include: war gaming, computer modelling and simulation, mathematical modelling, optimisation techniques, process mapping, and soft systems methods or social science techniques.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with good briefing skills.

• English – SLP 3333 – (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

• Project Management: PRINCE 2 certification (or equivalent Project Management training).