#NC25FIN181977 - Business Analysis Support Services - Closed
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Requester: NATO
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Start date: November, 2025
Security clearance: NATO SECRET
SCOPE OF WORK / DUTIES / ROLES
Structured requirements elicitation and traceability (aligned with SOP 6.09):
- Define and maintain structured and updated requirements documentation through the Programme of Work (PoW);
- Establish bidirectional traceability chains from project-level requirements up to capability and enterprise requirements;
- Identify, elicit, and catalogue formal requirements (CRs, MMRs, IERs) aligned to capability planning;
- Document stakeholder needs using structured templates and validation sessions;
- Maintain a traceability matrix linking CRs, MMRs, IERs, CONOPS, and CPP objectives to strategic outcomes;
- Aim to increase overall quality of the requirements artefacts across levels of detail and abstraction;
- Support requirements change control in accordance with PoW governance.
Support CONOPS, CONUSE, CONEMPS, and IERs documentation:
- Conduct interviews and workshops to define operational contexts and usage scenarios;
- Draft high-level artefacts (CONOPS, CONUSE, CONEMPS) aligned to programme intent;
- Capture operational, system specific, and technical IERs from stakeholders and technical leads;
- Develop portfolio standardized diagrams, workflows, and usage models to complement documentation.
Workshop facilitation and support to work package leads:
- Collaborate with WP leads to plan, run, capture, and follow up on workshops;
- Help structure the collection of requirements by theme, dependency and priority;
- Convert workshop outputs into structured requirements and work products.
Requirements packaging for transition to delivery:
- Consolidate validated requirements and concept artefacts into agency accepted formats (e.g. DOORS, SOP 6.09) ready for transition to projects;
- Ensure supporting documentation, diagrams, use cases, and assumptions are captured;
- Assist WP leads in developing documentation required for project initiation;
- Package solution information so it is clear, concise, and consumable for decision;
- Makers and delivery teams. Impact analysis, dependencies and readiness support;
- Support the assessment of feasibility, dependencies, and organizational readiness for proposed requirements;
- Document internal and external dependencies as part of traceability and roadmap planning;
- Support the identification of areas requiring new project formation or prioritization within the PoW;
- Record and trace key dependencies and impacts in the requirements and traceability set.
Project proposal development support under the PoW:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and shape candidate project proposals;
- Draft and deliver project proposal documentation packages including requirements extracts, traceability, dependencies, and readiness assessments;
- Support proposal review cycles, capture lessons learned, and recommend improvements to future project proposal processes.
CPP development support:
- Consolidate requirements and traceability matrices into CPP input products;
- Produce requirement alignment tables, dependency views, and prioritization options for submission to the Capability Programme Plan cycle;
- Facilitate workshops and reviews to validate CPP deliverables with stakeholders.
Reporting and coordination support:
- Provide regular updates and progress reports to the NC3 Portfolio and Programme Leads;
- Maintain a single source of truth for requirements, and documentation via NCIA platforms;
- Participate in weekly, monthly, and checkpoint meetings to ensure alignment with portfolio governance.
REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
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Minimum of 5 years of Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis;
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Proven ability to elicit, analyze, and document Capability Requirements (CRs, Minimum Military Requirements, MMRs, and Information Exchange Requirements;
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Demonstrated application of traceability techniques and requirement structuring for complex programmes;
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Minimum of 3 years of experience with Operational Concepts Documentation;
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Familiarity with drafting and contributing to CONOPS, CONUSE, and CONEMPS;
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Ability to contextualize requirements within operational scenarios and usage patterns;
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Workshop Facilitation and Stakeholder Engagement;
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Skilled at planning and facilitating requirement discovery workshops with diverse stakeholders;
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Demonstrated ability to translate workshop outputs into structured artefacts;
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Policy, Architecture, and Strategic Planning Awareness;
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Understanding of NATO capability development processes and policy documentation;
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Exposure to architectural alignment or enterprise-level planning principles;
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At least 10 years' experience in business analysis, with 5 years in defence, NATO, or governmental context;
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Minimum 3 years working on Programme of Work or multi-project portfolio settings;
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Experience coordinating cross-functional input into artefacts that inform project formation or PoW planning;
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Experience working with documentation tools, requirement registers, and collaboration platforms;
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Deep experience (minimum 4 years) in working with international organizations and in multinational environments;
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Demonstrated knowledge of NATO Structures and military operations;
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Significant experience with the Microsoft Office productivity suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
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Experience with a requirements management tool (e.g. IBM DOORS) would be considered an asset.
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