Staff Officer (Operations Assessment)

The Staff Officer (Operations Assessment) supports the development and implementation of operations assessment and risk policies, collective training, and strategic planning within NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). The role involves developing doctrine, coordinating training requirements, analyzing lessons learned, and supporting long-term strategic planning to enhance NATO's operational effectiveness and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Developing operations assessment and operations risk policy documents to inform operations assessment collective training.
• Developing operations assessment and operations risk requirements for collective training.
• Translating the operations assessment requirement for collective training into the overall exercise and training policy and planning documents.
• Contributing to the development of collective training planning through the implementation of specific operations assessment requirements, events, incidents.
• Developing the requirement for data sets that enable the conduct of operations assessment collective training and coordinating the development and implementation of these data sets into the planning and execution of operations assessment collective training.
• Gathering and analyzing lessons identified and implementing them into operations assessment documents and future operations assessment collective training events.
• Contributing to the update of operations assessment policy, doctrine and training based on the new NATO Response System and Operations Planning Process.
• Providing and coordinating inputs for ongoing development and improvement of the NATO Operations Assessment Handbook (NOAH).
• Supporting the strategic campaign assessment of future and enabling the implementation of lessons identified in the reviews and revisions of these plans.
• Supporting the campaign assessment of peacetime activities and enabling the implementation of lessons identified into policy, doctrine, education and training for operations assessment.
• Assisting the ACO Action Officer for the NATO Operations Risk Working Group.
• Developing guidance, procedures and capabilities for implementation of operations risk, identification, assessment and planning in the operations planning process.
• Gathering and analyzing lessons identified regarding operations risk and implementing them throughout the operations planning process.
• Enabling the implementation of operations risk expertise in all strategic planning and assessment work strands.
• Developing strategic assessments, analysis, scenarios and planning products in support of the NATO Military Investment (NMI) long-term planning.
• Leading and/or coordinating SHAPE Tasker assignments for assigned area of responsibility.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of previous professional experience developing, maintaining, reviewing and revising strategic operations, planning and assessment products.
• At least 2 years of previous professional experience developing policy, doctrine, guidance, procedures, education and training requirements for operations assessment.
• Ability to translate operations assessment and risk requirements into education and training, exercises, events and planning products.
• University Degree in sociology, behavioural science or related discipline and 2 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
• English language proficiency at SLP 3333 (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
• Desirable: Previous experience with NATO missions/operations in positions relevant to this post.
• Desirable: Master’s Degree with focus on social and conflict studies or similar.
• Desirable: Certifications related to operations planning, operations assessment or evaluation, and operation risks.

Skills

• Operations Assessment
• Strategic Planning
• Policy Development
• Doctrine Development
• Training Requirements Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Operations Planning
• Education and Training Design
• Exercise Planning
• Lessons Learned Analysis
• Operation Evaluation
• Strategic Operations Development
• Operations Risk Management
• NATO Operations Experience
• Operational Coordination

Languages

English