Overview
Seeking a Staff Officer to join the OPFOR team, focusing on developing adversarial effects to challenge and prepare NATO forces for modern warfare by shaping the representation of the Information Environment in collective training and exercises.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide understanding of information confrontation capabilities and effects to support testing and training of NATO StratCom.
- Develop a NATO 2030 StratCom CT&E Integration Roadmap.
- Develop tools to monitor and measure the effectiveness of the roadmap and provide recommendations.
- Contribute to the development, testing and incorporation of new scenarios.
- Develop recommendations for improved functional services and synthetic IE.
- Develop recommendations for alternative and innovative solutions for threats in the cognitive dimension.
- Deliver an updated suite of SOP’s, an operating concept or academic paper.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years’ experience in strategic communications, information operations, psychological operations, public affairs or a related field.
- At least 2 years’ professional experience in contemporary information confrontation with a focus on Russia and China and thorough understanding of current adversarial information warfare effects.
- Understanding of NATO processes, information and doctrine within the STRATCOM field.
- Robust skill set in strategic thinking, communication, crisis management, digital proficiency, academic research and academic writing.
- Understanding of the operational and strategic planning processes within NATO or equivalent national or international organisation.
- Managerial or leadership experience in a related function (desirable).
- Experience working in a strategic communications function at an operational or strategic level (desirable).
- 2 years’ experience in exercise development and delivery (desirable).
- 4 years’ experience in military planning in a NATO or National military environment at operational or strategic level (desirable).
Qualifications
- University Degree in behavioural or social psychology, political theory or related discipline and 2 years function related experience
or
- Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
- Advanced degree in Strategic Communications or related field (desirable).
- University Degree in Political Science (Russian or other peer adversary) (desirable).
