Exercise Planning Analyst — Warfare Development and Lessons Learned for NATO with security clearance

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it — not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.

A multinational defence organisation runs a large exercise programme, and wants it aligned with where warfare development is going. This role does the joining up: the planning conferences, the campaign documents, and the after-action work that follows.

What you would be doing

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.
• Supporting governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.
• Taking part in planning conferences, workshops and coordination events.
• Developing, refining and documenting exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Using exercises to identify capability gaps, refine concepts and assess emerging capabilities.
• Integrating the training innovation lines of effort — realism, new technology, harder scenarios.
• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes, and drafting the formal reports and recommendations.
• Contributing to the rolling programmes of work.
• Coordinating with the other commands, partners and external stakeholders.

What you would bring

• A bachelor or master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years in military exercise planning, collective training or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and their governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft professional planning documents, reports and campaign plans.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience coordinating with multinational or interagency partners.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.