Business Intelligence Support

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support continuous listening roll-out and operations
• Support ad hoc survey activities (incl further development of leavers feedback survey)
• Support data/reporting governance roll-out and operations (e.g. DQ monitoring, supporting stewards/power users, SLA discussion)
• Support org taxonomy review and operations
• Support reporting and data visualization projects/initiatives (e.g. OBIA, OTBI, OBIEE, reporting for LFS, RPMO)
• Support in ad hoc reporting requests (e.g. basic reporting questions core HR/TA/PM/etc, sick leave analysis, annual report)
• Support monthly reporting cycle
• Support improvement initiatives

Essential Skills and Experience

• Analytical mindset – working with data
• Pragmatic in finding solutions to make progress
• Data visualisation
• Communicative – convincing others, leading (smaller) change initiatives, being able to bring complex matter in a way that is adjusted to the audience
• Structured – bringing structure to complex and ambiguous information
• Project WoW/Organized – able to keep oversight and priorities straight when working on several initiatives at the same time
• Self-sufficient/independent – being able to look for information when needed, being able to work independently
• Project Management
• Experience in Data visualization tools like Oracle BI and Power BI
• Advanced Excel skills
• PowerPoint

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Data science
• Automation
• HR experience

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• Hybrid (80% remote, 20% onsite)
• One day per week at the office in Brussels

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance