Our Requirement:

Title: Staff Officer (Digital Programme Administrator) – NATO 2030

NATO International Civilian Grade: 15

Duty Location: Brunssum, The Netherlands

Requirement filling date: as soon as possible

Closing date for applications: 26 July 2026

Our organisation

Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFCBS) provides a Joint headquarters to plan, prepare and conduct operations to support NATO’s core tasks, at the Joint Operational level, as directed by SACEUR. The Management Directorate enables the full range of HQ functions through the coordination of services and activities. The Integrated Advisory Team Office (IAT) is responsible for management and business continuity planning for the JFC HQ in support of the assigned mission. The incumbent, member of the Innovation and Transformation team within IAT, provides tactical programme management to the Headquarters’ digital improvement portfolio, ensuring that senior leadership – including the Director of Management – and other key stakeholders—have access to accurate and timely situational awareness on the progress and impact of digital innovation and transformation.

The main duties of Staff Officer (Digital Programme Administrator) are to:

Within Programme and Portfolio Management:

·       Maintain and manage the portfolio of digital improvement initiatives across the HQ.

·       Establish and update project tracking tools and dashboards to ensure accurate reporting of initiative status, delivery milestones, dependencies, risks, and impacts.

·       Develop and maintain the HQ digital programme register, capturing ongoing, planned, and completed initiatives.

·       Serve as the central coordination point for all digital transformation-related reporting to senior leadership.

·       Support annual and quarterly review cycles for digital programme performance and alignment.

Within Innovation Ecosystem Integration:

·       Enable visibility and tracking of bottom-up innovation activities originating from staff at all levels.

·       Monitor and support the delivery of digital services and projects executed by NCIA in accordance with the annually revised HQ-NCIA Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Within Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:

·       Liaise regularly with the J6 Cyber Branch, IKM Team, and NCIA Account Management Officers to ensure alignment and deconfliction.

·       Support the Innovation & Transformation Manager in communicating progress, issues, and opportunities to senior decision-makers.

·       Contribute to regular reports, briefing notes, and presentations for governance boards and transformation working groups.

Within Continual Improvement and Change Management:

·       Promote and embed continual improvement principles in digital programme administration.

·       Identify blockers and inefficiencies in the delivery of digital initiatives and propose mitigation options.

·       Support workshops, training sessions, mentoring and sprint events related to digital innovation and transformation delivery.

The incumbent may be required to undertake deployments in support of military operations and exercises, and/or TDY assignments, both within and without NATO boundaries. Such operational deployment may exceed 30 days duration up to 183 days in any period of 547 days and may be on short notice. For NATO International Civilian Staff, acceptance of an employment contract linked to this post constitutes agreement to deploy in excess of 30 days if required.

Required Qualifications are:

Ø  English – good – NATO Standard Language Proficiency 3333.

(Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) in accordance with NATO standard agreement (STANAG) 6001.

NOTE: The work both oral and written in this post and in this Headquarters as a whole is conducted mainly in English.

Ø  University degree or equivalent in related field / discipline.

(equivalent is Higher Secondary Education AND completed advanced vocational training in relevant field leading to a professional certification or accreditation). 

Ø  Minimum 4 years’ professional experience in programme management and administration.

Ø  Digital portfolio management experience w