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 Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

Who we are:

NCI Agency acquires, deploys and defends communications systems for NATO’s political decision-makers and Commands; the Agency is on the frontlines against cyber-attacks, working closely with governments and industry to prevent future debilitating attacks.

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 at one of the most successful alliances;
• 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;
• Retirement Pension Squeme.

About the job

NCI Agency acquire, deploy and defend communications systems for NATO’s political decision-makers and Commands. Based in Oeiras (Portugal) you will join the NCI Academy.

The NCI Academy has been created by the NCI Agency to deliver high quality, certifiable and modern vocational training on systems and services utilised within NATO. The NCI Academy is led from its flagship training delivery location in Oeiras (Portugal) and supported by staff and capabilities in The Hague (The Netherlands), Brussels and Mons (Belgium).

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

About you

We are looking for a talented, committed and engaged Head of the NCIA Corporate Academy, ideally with a Master’s degree in a related discipline and able to demonstrate 5 year’s post-related experience or alternatively, with a Bachelor’s degree with 8 year’s post-related experience.

Head of the NCIA Corporate Academy will be responsible for developing and managing the training requirements of Agency staff in close alignment with the Agency stakeholders.

Under the direction of the NCI Academy Director, the incumbent will lead the NCI Agency Corporate Academy, transforming the NCI Agency into a learning organization and providing its staff with the necessary corporate knowledge and professional individual and team development opportunities to accomplish the NCI Agency strategic objectives and customer requirements with the highest standards while ensuring staff’s continuous growth.

Additionally, The Head of the NCI Agency Corporate Academy will lead the development and implementation of the Agency-side learning and development strategy, manage the Corporate Academy Core Team, engage with external training suppliers, supervise associated budgets and oversee the continuous improvement of learning services associated with this dynamic and agile environment.

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

Competencies

The NCI Agency is looking for individuals have tangible experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• Formulating Strategies and Concepts.
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Adhering to Principles and Values

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.