NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour. We are NATO’s technology and cyber leaders, helping NATO Nations to communicate and work together in smarter ways. Our work is challenging and meaningful, and you will develop and apply your expertise as part of a dynamic international team of civilian and military professionals.

What do we offer?

·       Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history

·       3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances

·       Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave

·       Excellent private health insurance scheme

·       Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays

·       Pension Scheme

About the job

Based in The Hague, Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

The Chief Operational Analysis Centre is accountable to the Chief Operating Officer for the provision of operational analysis services to support NATO and National planning and decision making. The Operational Analysis Centre also supports the other centres within NCI Agency with operational requirements and their validation, and other internal Agency requirements.

You will support the Operational Analysis (OA) to carry out analysis and development activities, particularly in the Defence Planning area. You will develop methods and conduct operational analyses for joint and combined planning, requirements and capabilities identification, concept development support and analysis and improvement of organisational effectiveness (structures and staff processes) and you will develop analytic models, simulations and decision aids for analysis, evaluation, and experimentation.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description here .

About you

We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable Operational Analyst with Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline (such as Operations Research/Analysis, Data Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related natural or applied science) and 2 years of post-related experience.

A different qualification coupled with particularly relevant experience may also be considered.

You should also have:

·       Experience in the development of Operations Research/Analysis supporting models and tools, staff decision aids, databases, data collection and/or survey tools

·       Experience in the application of Operations Research/Analysis techniques (such as structured problem analysis, statistical analysis, simulation and optimisation)

·       Ability to work and communicate effectively within a team

Knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) will not accept applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at the sole discretion of the NCI Agency.

Please note that ALL SELECTED CANDIDATES, with the exception of currently employed NATO International Civilians (NIC’s) will be appointed at the first Increment of the indicated NATO Grade, i.e. NATO Grade X, Increment 1.This is the salary referred to in this vacancy notice. Extra increments can only be considered for candidates from another Co-Ordinated Organisation.

Selected candidates who are not nationals of the host country and who have not been continuously resident in the host country for at least one year may be eligible for an expatriate allowance. For the purposes of determining continuous residence, NATO considers mainly the work location at the time recruitment started, independent of whether various ties were kept with the home country. For more information on our allowances click here.

All selected candidates are required to complete a Security Clearance, Medical Clearance and Pre-employment Screening process before joining the NCI Agency. This process will require time, so please keep in mind that you will not be able to start working with us right away.