Staff Officer (CIP/"Red Spider" Manager)

The Staff Officer manages NATO’s Core GIS-based Common Intelligence Picture (CIP/Red Spider), overseeing its development, maintenance, and improvement to support Allied Command Operations. The role involves coordinating data requirements, managing data access and governance, supporting exercises and operational readiness, and liaising with NATO bodies and nations to ensure effective intelligence sharing.

Responsibilities

• Manage the ACO Common Intelligence Picture, known as CIP/Red Spider.
• Oversee the day-to-day development, maintenance, and improvement of the system.
• Identify and coordinate data requirements with intelligence, command and control, geospatial, meteorological, oceanographic, and other data owners.
• Ensure relevant data is available, usable, and properly integrated.
• Support the collection, ingestion, discovery, and use of location-based data from multiple NATO systems and communities.
• Prioritize operational requirements in coordination with J2 leadership, data owners, users, and other stakeholders.
• Manage data access and governance, ensuring appropriate data access controls and procedures.
• Coordinate technical improvements and system interoperability with technology providers, CoreGIS staff, NCIA, and other technical teams.
• Coordinate the people and organizations supporting the project to keep it on track.
• Support exercises and operational readiness by ensuring CIP/Red Spider is properly included in NATO exercises.
• Contribute to future capability development by providing input to plans, requirements, capability packages, policies, doctrine, and future systems.
• Manage stakeholder engagement, budgets, and project risks by liaising with NATO nations, NATO bodies, data communities, and relevant authorities.

Requirements

• Experience as a Geospatial Staff Officer or Civilian Equivalent.
• Strong understanding of GIS technologies, systems, data- and metadata governance.
• Strong Intelligence Background (ideally INTEL SO qualification), systems, functions, data, processes.
• Broad understanding of METOC related issues (INTEL-related; e.g. served in GEOMETOC functions).
• Strong understanding of C2 capabilities and data landscapes.
• Strong experience in requirements management.
• Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in Geospatial / Geo-Intelligence.
• Project management and strategic communication skills.
• University Degree in geography, computer science, management information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, project management or related discipline and 4 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 7 years post related experience.
• English language proficiency at SLP 3333 (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
• Desirable: Military Staff experience in Strategic Headquarters at Echelon above Operational HQ and knowledge of the organization of geospatial, GEOINT, Intelligence and related service lanes.
• Desirable: Past mission deployments on the tactical level.
• Desirable: Expert understanding in the political and strategic environment, expert understanding of NATO.
• Desirable: Working knowledge of another NATO language (SLP 3333).

Skills

• Geospatial Staff Officer Experience
• GIS Knowledge
• Data Governance
• Metadata Governance
• Intelligence Systems
• INTEL SO Qualification
• METOC Knowledge
• GEOMETOC Functions
• C2 Capabilities
• Data Landscape Management
• Requirements Management
• Project Management
• Strategic Communications
• Geospatial Intelligence
• Core GIS Management
• Common Intelligence Picture
• Data Access Management
• Intelligence Sharing
• Operational Readiness Support

Languages

English