Project Coordinator (ACT Red Team)

The Project Coordinator leads and manages the Red Team within NATO's ACT, ensuring operational effectiveness and integration with broader strategic initiatives. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic analysis, managing contractors, and fostering collaboration across NATO entities to address emerging threats and enhance decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment, development, and management of a Red Team, ensuring that it remains a dynamic and adaptable capability, ready to meet NATO's evolving operational needs and address emerging threats.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Red Team, including resource allocation, task prioritization, and performance management, to maintain a high level of operational effectiveness.
• Provide objective, forward-looking analysis that strengthens the Common Intelligence Picture (CIP) and enhances ACT's decision-making processes.
• Work closely with other NATO entities to incorporate Red Team insights into broader strategic initiatives, ensuring that potential threats from adversaries, terrorist groups, and strategic competitors are proactively identified and mitigated.
• Develop and sustain a robust network of subject matter experts across ACO, NATO and partner nations, and academic institutions, ensuring that the Red Team can leverage specialized knowledge and expertise to enhance operations and meet emerging challenges.
• Serve as a critical advisor to the EWB Branch Head and senior leaders on adversarial strategies and operational planning matters, offering insights that enhance strategic planning and risk management.
• Act as the (COTR) for the Red Team and wargaming contractors, ensuring all contractual obligations and the team's efforts align with NATO's strategic objectives.
• Monitor contractor performance, manage contract modifications, and ensure the Red and Wargame teams operate within budgetary and timeline constraints.
• Maintain internal project control mechanisms to ensure the Red Team project remains within scope, schedule, and budget. This includes the use of NATO’s standard project management tools (e.g., project milestone tracking, risk registers, deliverable review boards). Regular progress reports will be submitted to the EW Branch Head and MDFD leadership to review adherence to objectives and identify corrective actions when required.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, customers, and stakeholders within NATO to ensure alignment with broader Alliance goals. Communicate Red Team findings and recommendations clearly to the senior leadership.
• Coordinate with the EWB Branch Head and other NATO entities to integrate the Red Team into broader initiatives within the Multi-Domain Force Development (MDFD) Directorate.
• Stay informed of emerging trends in adversarial strategies, technologies, and methodologies to ensure the Red Team remains at the forefront of innovation and effectiveness.
• Deliver comprehensive documentation, including Red Team reports, strategic analysis, and wargame evaluations, ensuring that all outputs meet NATO's standards and contribute to ongoing initiatives.
• Promote a culture of critical thinking and continuous improvement within the Red Team, encouraging the adoption of best practices and lessons learned to maximize the effectiveness of NATO's strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• 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
• Previous Staff experience in a large HQ, Joint Command, NATO/National HQ or large multi-national organization.
• Four years recent experience in the application of experimentation and and/or wargaming techniques that address concept or capability development, or larger military and milpol strategic questions.
• Two years previous experience as an Intelligence Analyst.
• Demonstrated experience in effective customer/ sponsor and stakeholder interaction and communication.
• Demonstrated experience in working in multinational teams.
• English – SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)
• Familiarity with NATO and the NATO Command Structure (NCS) and NATO Force Structure (NFS) (desirable).
• Experience as a Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) for managing multiple contractors in a NATO environment (desirable).
• Previous professional experience working within a NATO context/ within NATO on strategic level (desirable).
• Previous professional experience working within a NATO context/ within NATO on operational level (desirable).
• Knowledge of the NATO Concept Development and Experimentation process (desirable).
• The successful applicant will be required to apply for and receive a NATO SECRET Security Clearance prior to final confirmation of contract and commencement of employment.

Skills

• Experimentation Techniques
• Wargaming Techniques
• Concept Development
• Capability Development Processes
• Military Strategic Analysis
• Military Political Strategic Analysis
• Intelligence Analysis
• Client Interaction
• Stakeholder Communication
• Multinational Team Coordination
• NATO Command Structure Familiarity
• Contracting Officer Technical Representative
• Project Coordination
• Strategic Analysis
• Contractor Management
• NATO Concept Development and Experimentation
• Security Clearance Management

Languages

English