Senior IPS Officer
JOB DETAIL
Who we are:
For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.
Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.
Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.
About the job:
Based in The Hague, you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join The Office of the Chief of Acquisition, which provides the full range of acquisition expertise and activities which support the planning, implementation and maintenance of the required capability to support the Agency’s strategic goals and missions.
We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior IPS Officer who will be involved in C4ISR (Command Control Communications Computers Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems’ full lifecycle from initiation to disposal as a member of an integrated Project Teams, supporting Project and Service Delivery Managers and take on the following roles and responsibilities:
- Supporting procurement activities, including bids evaluations, contractor reviews, and in-service contract management.
- Driving supportability engineering and applying Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) methodology;
- Handling logistics management, including forecasting, records, and project integration;
- Assessing and reporting hardware reliability, identifying failure causes and improvements;
- Managing technical writing, ensuring documentation standards and tools are applied;
For a full list of duties, please review the job description here.
About you:
The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (supportability or logistics engineering preferred) and at least 3 years of relevant experience, or at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post if the educational requirement is not met;
- Training in IPS methodology and proficiency in the use of supportability engineering related standards and tools;
- Excellent communication and networking skills;
- Ability to work independently and adapt to changes, proactive attitude;
- It will be an advantage if you have knowledge of safety engineering, NATO’s C4ISR capabilities or experience working in an international organization that comprises both military and civilian elements;
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
What 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;
- NATO Pension Scheme;
- Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.
To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.
Special Notice:
*The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.
*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.
*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.
*Please note that all candidates who are not current NATO International Civilians (NICs) or part of a Coordinated Organization (OECD, ESA, CoE, ECMWF, EUMETSAT) will start at increment 1 of the post’s salary grade.
*The 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.
