Program Analyst

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 Background

ACPV supports the NATO strategic objective to enhance cyber defence and resilience. It directly contributes to NATO’s cybersecurity posture, proactively challenging adversarial freedom of manoeuvre in cyberspace, countering malicious cyber activities on the Alliance and contributing to Enterprise cyberspace situational awareness in a dynamic environment.

NATO needs to continuously improve its Enterprise vulnerability management process as part of its aim to operate at the high security levels, which ensure its effectiveness and reliability. The ACPV Core System is expected to provide the NATO Cybersecurity ecosystem with adequate ACP management for vulnerability assessment information within the NATO Enterprise, ensuring that NATO CIS are understood, monitored, patched and actioned properly, in order to improve their protection against the full spectrum of current and future cyber threats.

In support of this, the NCI Agency is tasked under a Programme of Work (POW) to support the ACPV programme management function.

To support this work, the NCI Agency is looking for subject matter expertise in the delivery of complex, foundational and novel capability. 

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction / guidance of the OCIO Point of Contact, they will be the part of the OCIO Team supporting the following activities:

ACPV Strategic Communications Plan:

• Contribute to the production of the sections of the plan
• Provide expertise to mature the plan
• Identify ACPV management strategic goals
• Implement and manage the ACPV Community of Interest (COI) portal (utilising an existing NATO COI System1)
• Keep maintenance of up-to-date stakeholder lists including contact details.

Lessons Identified Register:

• Collect feedbacks from various internal NATO Entities and external Industry Partners
• Provide a concise and quality-driven list of Lessons Identified from the ACPV management process
• Maintain identified lessons in a Lessons Register.

Risk Log:

• Contribute to the identification, the estimation of the probability and the impact of the ACPV program risks
• Contribute to the development of a Risk Response Plan
• Maintain the Risk Log linking mitigation actions to the D2 Activity / Plan of action.

Roll-out and Implementation Roadmap:

• Contribute to the development of the roll-out and implementation Roadmap of ACPV
• Programme
• Provide own expertise for the development of the Roadmap,
• Link the actions to the D2 Plan of actions.

Bi-weekly Progress Report:

• Provide bi-weekly progress report to the OCIO internal stakeholders
• Maintain the activity tracker
• Summarize change programme schedule, key risks and work in progress/plan of action.

ACPV COI Conference:

• Contribute to the administrative arrangements and the execution of Quarterly Face-2- Face ACPV COI Conference
• Prepare calling notice
• Develop and coordinate the conference agenda
• Coordinate the representatives from stakeholders
• Arrange the access of the participants to the NHQ

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience (proven record) in collaborating with industry and international organizations on IT-Service based projects and programmes management activities in general and, desirably experience in at least one ‘ACPV like2’ functional/technical area
• Experience (proven record) in enterprise risk management plan and risk log
• Understanding of recent emerging technological trends and challenges in ACPV area
• Expert technical knowledge of strategic organizational change management
• Experience (proven record) with strategic planning, change roadmaps and change implementation including progress measurement and reporting
• Strong analytical and research skills with the ability to collect, analyse and interpret large quantity of data from different sources
• Strong analytical skills to assess and describe complex problems with multiple variables and develop adequate concepts and solutions
• Expert communication and writing skills in English with the ability to develop and present complex concepts in a clear and succinct way
• Strong skills in the creation of information sharing mechanisms including SharePoint and portals
• Excellent writing skills to produce high-quality reports and deliverables, including presentation of results at meetings
• Experience (proven record) in authoring studies and analyses in the relevant field

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in working with NATO.
• Experience of working with NATO Communications and Information Agency.
• Experience of working with national Defence or Government entities.
• Experience of MS Power BI.

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• Hybrid (80% onsite, 20% remote)

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance