About this role
Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.
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Who we are supporting
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The Joint Force Training Centre (JFTC) , officially established in 2004 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, is a key element of NATO’s training community and serves as a focal point for combined and joint operations and warfare at the tactical level. Since moving into its state-of-the-art facility in 2009, equipped with advanced Communication and Information System (CIS) architecture, the Centre has provided NATO with a flexible and cost-effective environment for current operations, readiness activities, certification exercises, and experimentation.
The JFTC delivers a wide range of capabilities, including:
- Collective Training: Planning, preparing, and executing static and distributed combined and joint training to support warfighting readiness.
- Exercises and Certification: Delivering complex, multi-domain and high-intensity exercises, including support for NATO Command Structure and NATO Force Structure exercises, as well as certification and pre-deployment training.
- Experimentation and Innovation: Supporting warfare development, concept development, experimentation, doctrine validation, and interoperability through advanced training environments, analytical wargaming, and its dedicated battle laboratory.
- Partnerships and Interoperability: Strengthening relationships with Allied and Partner nations while supporting the integration of national training organisations, regional security organisations, and NATO partnerships.
- Professional Development: Conducting training events, conferences, courses, and key leadership programmes that enhance NATO’s operational effectiveness and readiness.
Overall, the JFTC plays a critical role in improving NATO’s interoperability, operational effectiveness, and readiness by providing world-class training, exercises, experimentation, and innovation capabilities for the Alliance.
Role ID – JFTC-22-26-01
Role Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and produce comprehensive scenario products supporting joint and tactical-level operational planning processes across all phases of the exercise lifecycle, in accordance with NATO doctrine.
- Draft and adapt strategic and operational/tactical-level planning documents to reflect evolving scenario narratives and planning objectives.
- Ensure the integration of environmental, infrastructural, and geopolitical factors into operational planning tools and products to maintain realism and complexity in Collective Defence scenarios.
- Support the development of operational/tactical-level force laydowns, crisis response options, and OPLAN-relevant scenario products, ensuring consistency with scenario logic and training objectives.
- Coordinate the alignment of scenario content with political-military considerations, including host nation support, SOFA/MOU implications, and multinational interoperability frameworks.
- Develop tailored scenario content reflecting the interaction of military and non-military actors (e.g., UN, EU, NGOs), and support the drafting of civil-military (political-military) documents relevant to planning.
- Create and maintain operational and tactical-level input for scenario documentation such as current situation updates, intelligence summaries, road to crisis/STARTEX, and operational reports.
- Collaborate closely with Scenario SITFOR, MULTI-DISCIPLINE and other pertinent SMEs to ensure doctrinal consistency, cross-domain coherence, and integration of PMESII variables in planning products.
- Provide support to Content/MEL/MIL development, with specific focus on operational dilemmas and tactical challenges.
- Support the Request for Information (RFI) process by drafting and coordinating responses related to operational planning, theatre environment and military-political dynamics.
- Maintain flexibility to adjust planning deliverables in response to changes in exercise design, scenario evolution or stakeholder input.
- Perform any other duties as directed by the Division, Branch, Section Head, or Scenario Lead that contribute to the successful delivery of exercise planning products.
Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications
- Documented recent (within the last five calendar years) experience in NATO exercise scenario development as scenario developer Friendly and Environment (if the name of the position differs, it is requested to provide written statement of the duties performed), with specific focus on operational planning and integration of political-military, environmental, and infrastructural elements.
- Proven NATO exercise planning experience in roles related to operational planning (J/G3 or J/G5) and/or civil-military integration (J9/Political-Military) at the tactical or operational level, including documented contributions to exercise planning.
- Demonstrable experience in integrating political, military, economic, social, information and infrastructure considerations (PMESII) into military planning documents and scenario design and knowledge of current NATO setting and scenarios. d. Comprehensive understanding of NATO’s doctrinal framework, including COPD, AAP-28, Bi-SC 75-3, and MC 133/4, with the ability to translate these into scenario-relevant products. e. Demonstrable familiarity with NATO’s coordination processes with international organisations (IOs), governmental organisations (GOs), and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including the ability to model their role and interaction in operational scenarios. f. Working knowledge of NATO Functional Area Systems (FAS) and digital scenario development tools, including but not limited to TOPFAS, JEMM, TOMM, INTEL-FS, SITAWARE and NCOP.
Working Location
- Bydgoszcz, Poland
Working Policy
- 100% On-site
Travel
- Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
Security Clearance
- Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance