Nuclear Command

Overview:
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. As we enter our 50th year in business, we are known for continuous innovation for government customers, both long-established and newly acquired, as our capabilities expand around the globe. Our work is state-of-the-art and made possible only through the best personnel, tools, and jobs in the national security business. We are highly collaborative in spirit and practice, and we freely share expertise across SPA in our quest for enduring solutions to critical concerns. Come work with the best

The current NC2 Programme constitutes the first increment for modernization and innovation of NC2 capabilities, providing enhanced Information Services for planning, targeting and reporting, addressing selected DOTMLPFI aspects of high priority to advance effectiveness, responsiveness, survivability and sustainability of NATO's NC2 capabilities and to strengthen coherence between nuclear and non-nuclear exercises and operations in support of NATO's core missions. The programme will be reviewed and adapted in a dynamic fashion to address emerging operational requirements, articulated by the Capability Requirements Authority.

The scope of work for the development, implementation and management of the NC2 capability programme will include requirement elicitation in collaboration with stakeholders, the full spectrum of programme and project management as stipulated in the NATO governance model for delivery of common funded capabilities, support to architecture development, a holistic lifecycle management, capability acceptance and the management of ongoing capability development efforts, for instance NC2 related Capability Packages.

The outputs include the delivery of programme management products in accordance with the NATO governance model for the delivery of common funded capabilities, programme management plans, products to address information requirements at the senior and governance levels, plans to enhance NATO NC2 capabilities in an incremental approach, based on the results of elicited requirements and coordination with the broad array of NC2 stakeholders in the NATO Command Structure and at NATO HQ.

To support this work, SPA has a requirement for a Nuclear Command & Control (NC2) Capability Programme Development, Implementation And Management Expert to support the NC2 Programme located in Mons, Belgium

**Responsibilities**:

- Provision of capacity and expertise in support of the development of Nuclear Command & Control (NC2) capability programme management products in accordance with the NATO governance model for the delivery of common funded capabilities across Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Interoperability lines of development in a through life cycle approach, based on the guidance of the ACT NC3 Capability Programme Director (PD) and Programme Coordinators (PC);
- Support the ACT NC3 Capability Programme Director (PD) and Programme Coordinators in their programme management efforts, including the interaction with NC2 stakeholders at all levels, from strategic to tactical;
- Support the interaction with NATO Agencies in context of the NC2 projects’ implementation and validation of capabilities; 4.
- Provision of analytical expertise and advice to support the assessment of potential solution spaces to address operational requirements;
- Support NC2 project Information Management in accordance with NC3 PD and PC guidance;
- Performs additional tasks, as required by the COTR, related to the labour category

Qualifications:
**Essential Skills/Qualifications**:

- A University/ Bachelor's degree;
- Three years of Programme/Project Management experience in the past ten years within a complex and dynamic environment, with a focus on military capability development;
- Five years in the last fifteen in the field of capability development processes related to national/NATO military command and control at the development and/or acquisition phases;
- Experience with the NATO/Allied Command Transformation procedural environment for capability development;
- Background in the field of NATO nuclear deterrence policies and/or command & control of NATO nuclear operations.