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
The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:
- Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
- Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
- Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
- Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
- Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.
Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.
The program
Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.
To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.
Role ID – 2026-0128
Role Duties and Responsibilities
- The Contractor shall perform the following activities in support of the deliverables. These activities are not considered deliverables in themselves:
- Facilitate stakeholder discussion to confirm the pilot scope, target environment, priority SaaS application, success criteria, and key risk areas.
- Coordinate with Cloud, compliance, audit and business stakeholders to agree on roles and responsibilities, dependencies, and decision points of the pilot.
- Review whether automated evidence from cloud and/or SaaS is complete, reliable, traceable, and suitable.
- Mapping “digital evidence” to relevant controls, audit requirements and assurance expectations.
- Review dashboard content to ensure it accurately reflects live risk posture, control status and compliance.
- Prepare C-suit demo flow to explain live dashboard, key insights and business value.
- Conduct Stakeholder Review Sessions to validate assumptions, mappings etc.
- Issue tracking and remediation support.
- Deliverables
D001 – Pilot Scope and Governance Baseline (document)
- Deliverable: a signed-off Pilot Definition Document containing
(a) the named pilot environment (specific Azure Landing Zone or SaaS application),
(b) quantified success criteria for the pilot (e.g. number of controls under continuous monitoring, evidence refresh frequency, target reduction in manual audit effort),
(c) a RACI covering cloud, compliance, audit and business stakeholders, (d) the selected control framework baseline to be expressed in OSCAL
(e) a risk and dependency register with owners.
Acceptance: document approved in writing by the NCIA PM
- D002 – Digital Evidence Assessment and Audit Readiness Report (document plus
mapping artifact)
(a) a control-to-evidence mapping matrix covering 100% of the controls in the agreed pilot baseline, identifying for each control the automated evidence source, collection method, and traceability path, delivered in OSCAL-compatible format where feasible,
(b) an assessment of each evidence source against completeness, reliability, traceability and suitability,
(c) a gap and remediation log with prioritised actions, and
(d) a written internal audit validation memo confirming which controls the digital evidence satisfies and which require compensating manual evidence.
Acceptance: mapping matrix covers the full pilot baseline; approved in writing by the NCIA PM
- D003 – Executive Demo Package and Scaling Recommendation (working demo plus documents)
- Deliverable:
(a) a configured Live Trust Dashboard in the pilot environment showing real-time control status, risk posture and compliance state for the pilot scope,
(b) the executive briefing deck and demo script used for the Board presentation,
(c) a one-page business value summary quantifying audit effort saved and risk visibility gained, and
(d) a recommendation report describing the path from pilot to cATO MVP on RegScale, including resourcing, licensing and dependency assumptions.
Acceptance: demo delivered to the Board or delegated executive audience; all artifacts handed over and stored as directed by NCIA per Section 8.
Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience.
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in all of the following items:
Leadership,
- Communication,
- Strategy,
- Risk Management,
- Audit standards,
- Storytelling and ROI Analysis.
- Documented (or demonstrable) experience in process analysis, and design techniques
Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications
- Robust technical knowledge of NATO operations, responsibilities and organization – with specific focus on how NATO achieves technical interoperability on the battlefield.
- Comprehensive understanding of NATO’s Cloud strategies.
- Knowledge of ITIL, COBIT, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with current and evolving capabilities and trends in military and civilian communication protocols and standards.
- Deciding and Initiating Action - Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes
initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes; makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks.
- Adhering to Principles and Values - Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, builds diverse teams; encourages organizational and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.
- Relating and Networking - Easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; uses humor appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others.
- Formulating Strategies and Concepts - Works strategically to realize organizational goals; sets and develops strategies; identifies, develops positive and compelling visions of the organization’s future potential; takes account of a wide range of issues across, and related to, the organization.
- Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives - Accepts and tackles demanding goals with enthusiasm; works hard and puts in longer hours when it is necessary; seeks progression to roles of increased responsibility and influence; identifies own development needs and makes use of developmental or training opportunities.
Working Location
Working Policy
Travel
- Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
- All travel expenses, including per diem, lodging and associated expenses for travel are included in the price of the bid (NTE), such that the purchaser shall not be invoiced separately for travel.
- Extraordinary Travel (Purchaser Directed Travel) may be required to other NATO or non-NATO
locations as necessary. In the event of such unforeseen meetings being called, the cost of all travel and subsistence will be addressed through a contract amendment.
- Extraordinary Travel expenses will be reimbursed in accordance with Article 5.5 of AAS+ Framework Contract. Such costs will be set as a separate PO line with a not to exceed value to cover and reimburse of actual expenses upon submissions of all receipts and invoices in line with NCIA processes.
Security Clearance
- Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance
