Partnerships Officer — Capability Development and Key Leader Engagement for NATO with security clearance

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO‑5 visa.

About the role

A multinational defence organisation runs a wide programme of partnerships with nations outside the alliance. This role supports that branch end‑to‑end — coordination, staff work, policy and the preparation behind senior engagements.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the activities, outputs and coordination rhythm of the partnerships branch.
• Act as a central point of contact for partnership work strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, point papers, speaking notes, reports and decision‑support products for senior leadership.
• Develop and review the policies, directives, concepts and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities, programmes of work, exercises, experiments, training and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory: information and knowledge management, lessons identified, document traceability and quality assurance.
• Ensure partnership activities and information sharing follow the applicable security policy.
• Prepare and execute key leader engagements — background papers, engagement strategies, read‑ahead material, talking points.
• Travel to meetings, conferences, workshops and exercises up to about thirty days a year.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in international relations, international security, international development or military studies.
• Experience in foreign affairs, international security, international cooperation or defence.
• Experience inside an alliance structure, another international organisation in a defence or security post, or a national defence ministry.
• Working knowledge of at least one of: partnerships, security sector reform, defence and security capacity building, defence planning, military cooperation.
• Demonstrated experience drafting for and briefing senior leaders — flag officers or their civilian equivalents.
• Fluent professional English.
• Commitment to a long‑term engagement that renews year on year.