Staff Officer (Experimentation & Wargaming Design)

The Staff Officer (Experimentation Design) contributes to the technical design and delivery of operational experimentation within NATO's Transformation and Adaptation strategy. The role involves designing experiments, managing experimentation activities, delivering briefings, and supporting capability development to enhance NATO's military posture and capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design experiments within the annual NATO CD&E Programme of Work to support development of new concepts and capabilities.
• Contribute draft experiment designs from the annual portfolio of experiment proposals validated by Nations’ CD&E experts.
• Manage experimentation design to ensure experiments provide effective and quality-assured results within resource constraints.
• Serve as an expert in operational experimentation and participate as a senior team member in planning, execution, analysis and reporting of experiments.
• Prepare and deliver briefings across the Alliance, including to audiences up to OF-8 level, on operational experimentation contributions.
• Prepare and deliver instruction on operational experimentation to the NATO CD&E Course.
• Identify lessons learned and best practices on experimentation techniques.
• Manage experimentation funds as a Deputy Fund Manager.

Requirements

• University Degree and 4 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related and 2 years function related experience.
• Four-six years’ experience (depending on educational background/degrees) in the design of experiments.
• Experience in applying experimentation to national or multinational military transformation activities.
• Proven track record in the delivery of successful experiment designs.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, with emphasis on effectiveness in the distillation of complex technical subjects into cogent briefings tailored to non-technical audiences.
• Management experience in a government, international or industrial setting and in taking personal responsibility for the delivery of technical products.
• Experience in an instructional capacity, preparing and delivering training lessons.
• Experience in delivering briefings and presentations to a broad cross-section, from junior to senior ranked audiences.
• English – SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Skills

• Experiment Design
• Military Experimentation
• Experimentation Management
• Technical Briefing Delivery
• Training Lesson Preparation
• Training Delivery
• Technical Communication
• Capability Development Processes
• Government Management
• International Organization Experience
• Military Transformation
• Oral Presentation
• Written Communication

Languages

English