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
•    Retirement Pension Plan

About the job

Based in Norfolk, VA, USA you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will be provide functional coordination and ensure strict financial control of fiscal activities. You will coordinate the cost estimation and purchase execution of Small Value Price Proposals as well as assist in the Mid-Year Admin Budget Review and year-end close out procedures. Finally, you will assist staff members in the creation of Travel Requisitions (TR), ensuring compliance with NATO Travel Regulations, and verify and approve TRs in the absence of the Resource Management Officer. For a full list of duties, please review the job description here.

About you

We’re looking for a talented and knowledgeable Senior Assistant (Resource Management) with ideally higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 2 years post-related experience, or a secondary educational qualification with at least 4 years post-related experience.

Experience in financial execution, accounting and ability to analyse and maintain financial data is required. We also seek experience in Travel Office Management, Asset Management and Supplier Management.

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

Competencies

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

•    Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
•    Following Instructions and Procedures
•    Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
•    Adhering to Principles and Values

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

*For information about the NATO Single Salary Scale (Grading, Allowances, etc.) please visit our website. Detailed data is available under the Salary and Benefits tab.

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.

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.