ISC DATA ANALYSTS

DESCRIPTION:

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) Directorate and the Defence Planning Integration Branch is currently focused on the implementation of the NATO Warfighting Capstone Concept (NWCC) and particularly the Rapid Adaptation of New Force Design Options.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·         Demonstrable experience (3 years or more) in Enterprise Architecture, Systems Architecture, Programme Management, IT systems requirements or equivalent

·         University degree level education (bachelor and/or master) in a relevant field (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Information Sciences and Technology, Mathematics, Business Administration, etc.)

·         Ability to participate effectively in high-level discussions, workshops, panels, etc. and prepare professional, high-quality documents for review

·         Experience working in defence environments or previous military experience

DUTIES/ROLE: 

·         Based upon the unclassified information collected from Allies through an existing online form0F1 and other evidence, lead the development work to implement a pilot of the ISC to be completed in accordance with the IS/ACT defined timeline

·         Additionally, in coordination with each Allied Single Point of Contact, populate the pilot ISC with information received from FLE, FLEX, and other additional sources, as necessary, to inform and facilitate decisions by NATO and Allied stakeholders on their inclusion in the ISC

·         Act as Support Desk for any technical related question about the ISC

·         Following conclusion of the pilot, support the development, implementation, and population of a production version of the ISC. This should include the consultation with ISC stakeholders, including IS-DPP, IS-CDT, and IS-D2IA, to collect requirements for the production ISC covering the design, functionalities, content, data exchange and integration with relevant tools, such as NATO Industry Front Door, NATO Innovation Range network tool, DIANA OS, CRIT, etc.

·         Improve integration of the ISC work into existing ACT and Alliance activity through stakeholder engagement and, in particular the linkage to other Innovation work strands and tools

·         Attend weekly SPP DPI meetings, both scheduled and unscheduled, at the direction of the BH. Currently there is one scheduled SPP DPI and one FLEX meeting per week, with impromptu meetings called when required

·         Additionally:

ü  Provide feedback about their work clearly and concisely

ü  Provide input on ISC and offer ideas and related analysis

ü  Understand the NATO’s/ACT’s strategy and mission

ü  Share ideas with multiple stakeholders and gain alignment from them

ü  Collaborate as required with HQ SACT cross-functional teams to provide improving thoughts and inputs

ü  Fulfil other specific DPI related tasks directed by SPP DPI BH

ü  Look beyond 2027 to develop further plans to progress FLEX and ISC thinking and understanding across the ACT and the Alliance

ü  Conduct research to identify threats and opportunities

ü  Construct forecasts and analytical models