NATO ICT role mapping support (NS)

Summary

Join us in expanding the mapping of all ICT roles to the SFIA Framework, creating a database with acquired NATO ICT roles, and delivering an inventory of all NATO ICT roles, a mapping of NATO ICT roles to the SFIA framework, and a mapping of 'Role to training recommendations' for NATO ICT roles.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Security related field, and/or multi-year experience doing Digital Transformation in an international environment
• Bachelor of Education/MSc degree in Human / Organizational Performance
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science/ Software Engineering/ Mathematics/ Electronics or related discipline at a nationally recognized/certified University, with 5 years post related experience
• A lower academic qualification combined with the demonstration of particular abilities or experience of relevance to this work, with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience
• Certification in ITIL 4 and/or Agile Project Management
• Demonstrable high level of Digital Literacy and a Cybersecurity certification
• Experience: More than 6 years’ NATO experience in Education and Training, and more than 6 years’ industry experience in change management and Learning & Development related posts
• Knowledge of / practical user experience with NATO Cybersecurity Education and Training design and delivery
• Experience with mapping competencies to industry standard frameworks
• Experience with mapping NATO specific Cybersecurity job roles to the NICE and SFIA frameworks and related training offerings
• Experience with working with NCI Agency, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) and NATO Enterprise entities (including the NATO Office of the chief Information Officer (OCIO)
• Experience with technical platforms to support competency based talent management / job role mapping (e.g. Lexonis)
• Demonstrable strong and recent existing networks in NATO ACT MDFD, NATO ACT CAP DEV, NATO SHAPE J6, NATO SHAPE J2, NCISG, NATO HQ entities (including JISD) and the NATO Education and Training Facilities (NETFs) community
• Demonstrated ability to deliver a Learning Architecture and experience with SFIA and NICE frameworks
• Strong project management skills
• The candidate has a NATO SECRET security clearance, provided by the national security organization valid at the time of submission of the bid and covering the period of the contract
• Experience with working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable experience of working with NATO International Staff (IS) Human Resources (HR) and NATO International Military Staff (IMS) HR with regards to the mapping of Cybersecurity roles
• Demonstrable experience of NATO Lessons Learned process (for the purpose of quality assurance)
• Demonstrable experience with collaboration with NATO Enterprise entities in their implementation of the NATO Enterprise Digital Transformation Action Plan

Responsibilities

• Where needed, finalize existing mappings, which focuses on NATO Cybersecurity roles and support the loading of these mappings in to the platform that was selected as Proof of Concept (Lexonis)
• Build an inventory of NATO ICT roles and associated ICT Job Descriptions
• For all persona’s and 50% of all NATO ICT roles map the duties to the associated competencies and proficiency levels in the SFIA framework, create references to existing NATO and commercial training programs, and develop an annex and visual overviews to describe the SFIA mappings and training recommendations
• Across all mapped NATO ICT roles: generate a cross-entity picture of ICT role training recommendations
• Support the evaluation of the 2024 Proof of Concept of the mapping platform (Lexonis), pertaining to the platform’s ability to host, manage and analyse mappings, generate visual and usable reporting, identify required trainings for each NATO ICT role and further analysis, for instance in forecasting future training efforts and conducting competency assessments and function and to be accredited in the NATO IT system landscape, adhering to the associated security policies
• Support the acquisition and/or implementation of the selected tool to host and manage all NATO CS and CSI role mappings to industry frameworks
• Support the loading of all mappings between NATO ICT roles and industry frameworks to the selected platform

Benefits

The contractor will work remotely, providing services during Core working hours of the NCI Academy team (Oeiras / PRT)