Ballistic Missile Defence Expert

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**Who we are supporting**

**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 program**

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

**DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) **acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and co-ordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

**The Requirements Division** will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

**The Capability Requirements (CR)** Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues associated with through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project
- specific Requirements Management teams.

**The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons)** is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement related functions in Europe.

**The Capability Division** coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

**The Capability Forward Branch (Mons)** coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) in support of the development of capabilities.

**Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP)** supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents in support of NATO's strategic objectives.

**Role Duties and Responsibilities**
- Support the BMD Programme Director in the definition and execution:

- Update of the Programme Management Environment (programme management plan, risk and issue management tools, etc.) through full spectrum of DOTMLPFI;
- Support all BMD Capability related activities; Coordination meetings, Testing Events, Assessment,
- Support BMD-POW planning and execution:

- Support maintaining 5-year BMD-POW plan in line with BMD Capability deliveries considering full DOTMLPFI aspects.
- Coordinate and prepare annual BM-POW related documents and present/defend in various budget, governance meetings.
- Support Branch's NIAG (NATO Industry Advisory Group) studies on IAMD related topics, challenges and issues.
- Provide SME support on (T)BMD and IAMD matters to various entities, relevant working groups; such as COEs, NATO-2030, MDO, e.g.
- Maintain a comprehensive knowledge and oversight over the planning and execution of all BMD-related projects develops and manage the BMD Programme Plan, for all the deliverables correlated with the life-cycle and the progressive and incremental implementation of BMC3I.
- Provides the BMD Programme Director with the programmatic data, as required, and executes the plans in Quality Assurance, in terms of cost, scope, schedule, performance and risk management, against agreed tolerances; needs to have relevant skill set and experience for this role.
- Contributes to the acceptance, testing and documentation of BMD-related capabilities and supports their transition to operation.
- Maintains a five year Programme of Work (POW), with associated resources and deliverables, and execute it in coordination with the related Programme Director, Science and Technology, Research and Development, Concept Development and Experimentation, and common-funded related-capability continuum of investments and activities.
- Supports the BMD capability life-cycle configuration and management structure, including chair or membership of various steering committees, working groups and subordinate committees.
- Consolidates or coordinates reports to governance, supporting HQ SACT engagement with the relevant senior leaderships and other branches.
- Engage with key stakeholders, in order to propose, develop and maintain associated Branch-level management planning products and processes.
- Support development of the new CPPs, PPs and other supporting documents required during the base and option periods.
- Liaise with other programmes or initiatives (e.g. Multi Domain Operations, Day Zer