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Defense Planner​/Strategist; N2701

Job in Norfolk, Virginia, 23500, USA
Listing for: SimIS Inc
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-24
Job specializations:
  • Government
    Cybersecurity
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 180000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 180000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Position is 100% Onsite

Who We Are:

Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

SimIS is currently recruiting for the listed position and is contingent upon award. The position is anticipated to be “on site.”

Job Description

SIMis, Inc. is seeking contract support to contribute to the activities, outputs, coordination requirements, and battle rhythm of the Partnerships Branch in support of their objectives. To support our customer, SimIS, Inc. seeks a Military Partnership Advisor to support partner capability development by integrating capability development approaches into Partner capability development activities, ensuring coherence with the NATO Defence Planning Process, NATO standardization, interoperability requirements, and applicable doctrine.

This is a defense planner role not an operational planner. Defense planning focuses on long-term development (>5+ years), acquisition, and structuring of future military capabilities.

Qualifications
  • Master’s degree or higher in international relations, international security, international development, military studies, foreign policy, public affairs, political science, or related discipline; or BS degree plus graduate of a NATO or national military staff college.
  • Ten (10) years of experience working in a Defense or Security-related position in NATO, a multinational headquarters, an International Organization, or a national mission, delegation, or embassy. in the field of foreign/international security/international cooperation, defense, military affairs.
  • Ten (10) years of experience working in the field of foreign/international security/international cooperation/defense/military affairs.
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge of: NATO Partnerships; or security sector reform / defense and security capacity building; or defense planning; or military capability development / military applications of operations research.
  • Candidate’s resume must demonstrate experience in drafting for and/or briefing senior leaders/decision makers by citing specific documents, published articles, or presentations in which the candidate developed or contributed to substantially.
Responsibilities
  • Support Partner capability development by coordinating with HQ SACT Capability Development stakeholders, Partner Nations, NATO HQ, ACO/SHAPE, and relevant subject matter experts to foster mutually beneficial NATO-Partner cooperation. Support the integration of NATO capability development approaches into Partner capability development activities, ensuring coherence with the NATO Defence Planning Process, NATO standardization, interoperability requirements, and applicable doctrine.
  • Advise and support internal stakeholders on the strategic value, scope, risks, and opportunities of NATO military partnerships, including opportunities for Partner engagement across ACT work strands. Contribute to the drafting of policies, directives, concepts, reports, studies, and military advice related to the longer-term development of NATO military partnerships and their interaction with NATO defense policies, cooperative programmes, and…
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