Strategic Plans And Policy – Analytics And AI Strategic Reasoning SME

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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.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The Program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

 DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as STRATEGIC PLANS AND POLICY (SPP) subject matter expert (SME) on
• Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in support of strategy development, strategic initiatives, and special projects.
• Undertake data science and AI experiments in support of SPP’s Political-Military Affairs Constellation Group. Utilize data science and AI methods for research & analysis to support HQ SACT’s Strategy Development Programme of Work: Sino-Russia relationships; Russian and Chinese theories of victory, military strategies and doctrine.
• Leverage a variety of Large Language Models to process, analyse and report on a vast body of language sources, combining human expert judgment with generative AI applications. Exploit open-source text- and data-sets and -mining tools explored through both human analysis and (supervised and unsupervised) machine-learning algorithms.
• Develop proof of concepts for innovative analytical approaches to complex geopolitical and security questions. Leverage existing and develop new AI-enabled expertise on Russia and China; exploiting Russian language sources and Chinese language sources.
• Engage and co-create with partners on initiatives such as The Hague Centre for Security Studies (HCSS) Rubase: Knowledge base on Russia (https://hcss.nl/rubase/) .
• Provide specialized analytical support to SPP Strategy Policy and Analytics (SPA) Strategic Research Officer, offering insights and expertise to enhance the effectiveness research activities and outputs. Assist in drafting, reviewing, and finalizing PLP reports, strategic analyses to ensure high-quality deliverables that meet NATO standards.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience related to the field or expertise.
• Proficiency in integrating human expertise with data science and AI assistance (including models like Meta Llama, OpenAI GPT series, Google Gemini series, and adversary trained/developed equivalents).
• Experience in a Military Strategic Headquarters dealing with complex issues related to Russia or China.
• Experience with Agentic AI
• Experience in data sourcing: exploring new text- and number-based datasets, -tools and methods; data sets like elite opinion surveys, event data sets (e.g. GDELT, ICEWS, Phoenix, TERRIER), including economic, demographic, military, and political datasets.
• Experience applying AI ensuring transparent, traceable link between evidence and assessment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of construction and application of taxonomies for analytical rigour to support strategic analysis:
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Experience in applying data science and AI methods for research & analysis
• Transforming raw information into structured data,
• Facilitating systematic analysis

Education

• A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (data science / computer science).

Language Proficiency

• Advanced Proficiency in English

Working Location

• Norfolk, VA, USA

Working Policy

• On-Site

Contract Duration

• January 2026 – December 2028

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

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