Exercise Coordination & Enterprise Architecture Support

Exercise Coordination & Enterprise Architecture Support – Onsite at NATO ACT Norfolk

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Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Exercise Coordination Support

• Coordinate and align NATO exercises with force development and multi-domain operational requirements.
• Engage with stakeholders across NATO nations, commands, and centers of excellence to synchronize objectives.
• Provide planning, execution, and reporting support for large-scale exercises, workshops, and wargames.
• Capture and integrate lessons learned into NATO’s doctrine, force structure, and training frameworks.
• Facilitate collaboration across operational, technical, and policy teams to ensure exercises inform capability development.

Senior Enterprise Architect

• Analyze existing enterprise architectures to identify capability gaps, overlaps, and dependencies.
• Model and design new architectures using NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) to support portfolio and capability planning.
• Support requirements elicitation, traceability, and harmonization across capability lifecycles.
• Maintain architectural repositories and ensure version/configuration control.
• Provide technical guidance to requirements managers and mentor junior staff.
• Coordinate architecture products with NATO governance bodies and contribute to change/configuration management

Required Qualifications

• University degree in systems engineering, defense studies, international relations, or a related discipline.
• LCAT 23: Demonstrated experience planning, coordinating, and executing multinational exercises or wargames.
• LCAT 24: Demonstrated experience in enterprise architecture, requirements management, and capability modeling.
• Strong understanding of NATO or multinational defense structures, force development processes, and operational planning.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and collaborative software.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Citizenship of a NATO member nation; valid NATO-nation passport.
• Active NATO or National SECRET (or higher) clearance.

Desired Skills

• Experience with NATO Architecture Framework (NAF), DOTMLPFI, and capability lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to integrate lessons learned into doctrine and training.
• Familiarity with multinational defense exercises, experimentation, and wargaming.
• Project management certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP) are an asset.

Application Instructions

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