#Technical Support on Secure Communications Interoperability PoW - Closed
Deadline: March 26, 2025
Requester: NATO
Location: Offsite
Job type: Contractor
Start date: May, 2025
Security clearance: NATO SECRET
SCOPE OF WORK / DUTIES / ROLES
The selected contractor will be responsible to assist the NCIA PoW teams and the NDS sponsors in providing coordination and management of the different work strands, including:
- Developing the necessary supporting artefacts;
- Supporting the PoW project manager and the various technical leads;
- Proactively coordinating activities with other NCIA PoW teams (working in related topic areas and sub-programmes in the overall NDS PoW);
- Exercising technical leadership and management of work packages within the Secure Communications Interoperability work strands as necessary;
- Participate in portfolio management, programme management and associated coordination activities with a view to improve the situational awareness at portfolio and programme levels, identify links between the NDS PoW and other NATO programmes of work and initiatives, develop technical and non-technical dashboards, and liaise with non-technical staff;
- Organize and engage in scoping discussions with sponsors and project team members on PoW activities, elaborate work plans, and act as technical manager and/or senior contributor to the work to be conducted;
- Prepare, organize and lead scoping and coordination meetings with the different PoW external and internal stakeholders, and contribute to overall coherence and awareness in PoW execution;
- Provide technical briefings and presentations on the progress of the various work activities, making sure that work plans are followed and meet internal and external milestones;
- Elaborate high-quality technical reports and briefs to be circulated as NATO technical documents and inputs to NATO committees and other forums;
- Perform other duties as required, including deputizing for the senior NCIA project team members as required.
REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
The contractor must have demonstrated skills, knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- A senior profile matching the level of a principal engineer with a solid scientific background and with a proven track record of technical management work in the area of secure communications (voice and data) in defence networks;
- With limited guidance, coordinate activities with the different stakeholders and organize meetings and discussions to discuss and/or present interim results;
- Engaging with stakeholders, understanding their needs, problems and requests, and proposing constructive ways ahead;
- Planning, coordinating and execution of technical and scientific work for defence projects involving multiple stakeholders, including development of project management artefacts and documentation like plans, status reports, briefs, etc.;
- Collecting disparate information from multiple sources and building bodies of knowledge;
- Conducting analysis and developing concepts in the areas of secure communications, including applying architecture methodologies where relevant;
- Communicating effectively in English both in writing and orally, with excellent writing and briefing skills to different types of audiences (including senior technical and non-technical stakeholders), with presentations at conferences and NATO venues and writing high-quality technical reports for NATO circulation;
- Recent NATO experience, including direct support to NATO technical consultation activities under the Digital Policy Committee Substructure and their related work;
- Detailed understanding of secure networking in NATO and multinational contexts, including at the NATO Network and Security Capability Team (N&S CaT);
- Experience and knowledge in current developments in NATO communications, such as connectivity resilience, Next Generation Networks, FMN Specifications, Protected Core Networking, IPv6, Software Defined WAN, the SCIP (secure voice) and NINE (secure IP) standards, Zero Trust, and NATO and multinational scenarios for secure IP and voice communications, including in NATO Enterprise related contexts.
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