Staff Officer; Cyber Coalition Exercise

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 Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) comprises two Divisions-Requirements and Capabilities. The Directorate supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role. It is responsible for a holistic through lifecycle Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts that are an integral part of the Warfare Development.

This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements. The Capabilities Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with the management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure. This entails synchronizing horizontally across capabilities to achieve coherent efforts and outcomes. The Cyberspace Branch provides scientific, technical and operational expertise for the development and continuous improvement of modern and agile Cyberspace capabilities including Cyber Defence and enabling cryptographic infrastructure.

The Branch provides services and products through a competency-aligned structure to support appropriate product, programme coordination across DOTMLPFI lines of development throughout the lifecycle. The Branch supports cyber concepts development, capability requirements elicitation, architectures (including cryptographic reference and target architectures) and federated interoperability. This includes leveraging applied science, technology, operations research and horizon scanning. The Branch leads the development of Capability Programme Plans (CPPs) and ensures delivery of programme outcomes by assessing throughout the lifecycle the CSSPR against agreed tolerances.

The Branch leads the acceptance testing and documentation of assigned capabilities. The Branch analyses emerging technologies with stakeholders. It ensures military and technical coherence and persistent interoperability.

Within the Cyber Branch the incumbent's main responsibility is to support the Cyber Coalition Exercise Director and his/her exercise staff in all the activities related to the organization of Cyber Coalition.

• Identify level of ambition for annual CC, based on V&S implementation.
• Identify and describe the most likely scenarios and storylines, to propose to the Exercise Group.
• Identify and describe the most likely experiments and concept validation activities, to propose to the experimentation team.
• Document the above in the annual draft exercise specification.
• Act as the PoC for Cyber Coalition concept, scenario, storyline and implementation development activities.
• Attend meetings and ensure that above strategic elements are properly implemented into the exercise.
• Support the Exercise Director in developing the proper participation, audience and partnerships.
• Provide support to Cyber Coalition Exercise Director for development of exercise objectives and training objectives.
• Coordinate development of exercise specifications, exercise plan and final exercise report.
• Provide guidance to the Exercise Group on organizational aspects of future exercise developments.
• Ensure LL requests, planning, creation, collection, staffing and handling in accordance with the NATO LL Process is an integrated part of the Post Exercise Discussion (PXD).
• Represent the Exercise Director on appropriate Cyber Coalition related committees, task force, panels and working groups as directed.

• Master's degree or similar national academic qualification in computer science, network security, cyber‑security or any related field. Can be substituted with Bachelor Degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field and/or verifiable long time experience in the subject.
• Post‑grade education in CIS security and cyberdefence disciplines, as Certified Information Systems security…