Project Coordinator (ACT Red Team)

Leads daily operations and development of NATO ACT’s Red Team, aligning resources, contractors and project controls with strategic objectives. The coordinator provides adversarial analysis, advises senior leaders, builds expert networks and integrates red-team findings into wargaming, planning and risk decisions.

Department: Experimentation and Wargaming Branch

• Establish and manage an adaptable Red Team capability for emerging operational threats
• Oversee resources, priorities, contractor performance and day-to-day team operations
• Provide adversarial analysis that strengthens intelligence and senior decision-making
• Integrate Red Team insights into NATO strategic initiatives and operational planning
• Build a network of experts across NATO, partner nations and academic institutions
• Advise leaders on adversarial strategies, planning and risk management
• Maintain project controls for scope, schedule, budget, risks and deliverables
• Produce Red Team reports, strategic analyses and wargame evaluations

• University degree with two years of relevant experience, or higher secondary education and advanced vocational qualification with four years of relevant experience
• Staff experience in a large headquarters, joint command, NATO or national headquarters, or multinational organisation
• Four years of recent experimentation or wargaming experience addressing capability development or strategic questions
• Two years of experience as an intelligence analyst
• Experience engaging customers, sponsors and stakeholders
• Experience working in multinational teams
• English at NATO SLP 3333
• Ability to obtain NATO SECRET clearance before employment

• Project-linked three-year definite-duration contract
• Occasional travel and work outside normal office hours may be required
• Applicants must complete pre-screening responses in English
• Applications prepared with generative AI tools may be rejected