Senior Contractor Support to Requirements Management – Federated Interoperability

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       Minimum of a four-year university (Bachelor’s) degree or higher at a nationally recognized/certified university

·       Demonstrate a minimum of 5 years in the past 10 of proven work experience in multinational collaboration, coordination, preferably in NATO or equivalent multinational environments

·       Demonstrate a minimum of 3 years in the past 10 of professional experience supporting interoperability initiatives, campaigns, programmes or activities, across multiple stakeholders and nations. Examples include but are not limited to:

ü  The annual Coalition Warrior interoperability Exercise (CWIX)

ü  TIDE Sprint

ü  TIDE Hackathon

ü  Digital Interoperability Verification Experiment (DIVE)

ü  Federated Mission Networking (FMN)

ü  Interoperability 360 workshops (IO360)

·       Demonstrate a minimum of 3 years in the past 10 of managing and delivering interoperability requirements including governance, data collection and reporting

·       Demonstrate a minimum of 3 years in the past 10 of planning, preparing, coordinating, and managing events, meetings, workshops, conferences, exercises, or similar activities for cross-functional project teams and stakeholders

·       Demonstrate a minimum of 3 years in the past 10 of facilitating and coordinating the production of meeting notes, action lists, reports, and briefings and summaries for military and civilian audiences up to Flag/General Officer or equivalent level

·       Experience of managing, editing, and processing interoperability data using NATO or national toolsets (for example CWIX Wiki or IOCore)

·       Programme and Project Management experience in the past 10 years within a complex and dynamic programme environment

·       Able to demonstrate excellent organizational skills, including the ability to manage timelines, deliverables, task tracking, and stakeholder coordination

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       Support federated interoperability activities across the capability lifecycle

·       Elicit, capture and collect interoperability requirements across all aspects of DOTMLPFI. Contribute and participate in the development of policies, directives, concepts and process refinement related to federated interoperability

·       Monitor and assure the quality, completeness, and consistency of interoperability test data within designated tools. Identify and resolve data gaps to support reporting and analysis

·       Execute structured communications with COIs, prepare participants for interoperability events and activities

·       Provide timely, actionable guidance to participants on federated interoperability processes, tools, and events

·       Coordinate and contribute to the activities of the Federated Interoperability Branch

·       Support the analyses of interoperability data collected, including the production and delivery of reports and briefings

·       Administer and maintain user accounts, ensuring secure, role-based access to designated interoperability test tools

·       Directly support the Branch and Section Heads and will be required to travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO’s boundaries for up to 30 days per year

Performs additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the LABOR category