Military Partnership Staff Officer (Partnerships Strategy & Policy)

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division (JOID) provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues.

SPA's NATO Allied Command Transformation Group, within JOID, provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage.

We have a near-term need for a Military Partnership Staff Officer - Partnerships Strategy & Policy to provide onsite support out of Norfolk, VA.

The Military Partnership Staff Officer will contribute directly to the activities of the Partnerships IPT/Branch. This includes the following tasks: develop and deliver briefings to senior officers and decision makers as it relates to partnerships; contribute and participate in the development of policies, directives, and process refinement related to partnerships; and directly support the Head of Partnerships IPT/Branch. Will be required to travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO's boundaries for up to 30 days per year.

Additional duties will inlcude: Contribute to the drafting of policies, reports, and studies on the longer-term perspectives of NATO military partnerships, and on their interaction with NATO's defense policies and cooperative programs through the analysis and assessment of information received across NATO enterprise on best practice and lessons learned on partnerships issues. Contribute to the further development of related NATO concepts, policies, and procedures, including Bi-Sc and ACT directives; identify, within portfolio, ACT Programs of Work (PoW) that could be opportunities for partners engagement, and partner countries that could contribute to ACT PoW. Provide geopolitical analysis and Key Leader Engagement on PfP countries. Perform the Action Officer (AO) role and/or provide inputs for PfP country related Bi-SC tasks; develop processes to implement corporate memory mechanisms for partnerships (including synthesis, documentation, traceability, change management, etc.). This will include providing a quality assurance service with regards to partnerships development activities and to contracting activities across the branch; develop Information Knowledge Management (IKM) within the Partnerships Branch and execute IKM related tasks.

Required:

• Master's degree in international relations, international security, international development, military studies (including military technology or operations research), foreign policy, public affairs, political science, or related discipline; or have attended a NATO or national military staff college (OF-3 level or higher)
• 5+ years of experience working in the field of foreign/international security/international cooperation/defence/military affairs
• Experience working within NATO Enterprise (preferred); or other International Organization (in a defende or security-related position); or within a national mission, delegation, or embassy to an IO (in a defense or security-related position)
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of NATO Partnerships or security sector reform/defense and security capacity building, defense planning, or military capability development/military applications of Operations Research
• Active National or NATO Secret Clearance
• Able to work fully onsite based on client needs