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 – SHAPE-0027-R-A

Background

• LAWFAS is an operational concept to enhance the sharing of legal knowledge within the NATO community of interest and with NATO member nations and partners. Four inter-related parts compose it: information knowledge management concepts, energetic people, current information technology (IT), and the legal professionals in the NATO legal offices and legal offices in the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs of the 32 NATO nations.
• The NATO legal community developed LAWFAS as a tool for sharing, preserving, and using legal knowledge in furtherance of NATO education and training, collaboration, and interoperability. LAWFAS uses a web-based Microsoft SharePoint (SharePoint) application to support a common document repository and collaborative tools.
• Regarding operational readiness, the LAWFAS service had been considered under the Readiness Action Plan (RAP) Minimum Military Requirements, which means that LAWFAS is meant to support NATO Force Integration Unit personnel and other RAP-related personnel.
• As detailed below, contractor services are required to curate the information in the document repository and make it readily available and usable to LAWFAS users through continual development and improvement of the platform.
• It must be noted that one of the biggest challenges NATO faces is how to effectively connect and communicate within a segmented command structure. LAWFAS is used as a tool to mitigate this challenge for the NATO legal community by bridging organizational seams and linking offices that are, in many use cases, not within the same command structure. LAWFAS encourages communication within the large NATO legal community by providing an accessible, curated repository of information (such as NATO treaties and agreements, polices, directives, and procedures) that increases common knowledge. Through the SharePoint feature of colleaguefinder, LAWFAS also offers the ability to search for and connect qualified NATO legal experts with one another. Like any SharePoint application, it also provides controlled-access spaces for active collaboration on version-controlled documents between colleagues who may be in a single office, different countries, or even on different continents.
• An important goal of LAWFAS is to build better institutional memory. Relying on the Connected Forces Initiative concepts of interoperability through expanded education and training, exercises, and better use of technology, LAWFAS is establishing procedures to retain and retrieve information that has legal significance. This is particularly critical for operations and missions where the many types of legal issues faced at the different commands and regions of the theatre require extensive documentation and thoughtful evaluation. LAWFAS can be used to access key legal information whether users are at their desk in Mons, deployed, or even sitting in the white cell during NATO exercises. Relying on the NATO Special Operations Headquarters' proven information knowledge management (IKM) concepts, and applying the NATO Headquarters document management taxonomy, LAWFAS will remain constantly available despite troop rotations, staff changes, decommissioning of commands, and the opening and closing of operational theatres.
• Initially operational only on the unclassified NATO network, LAWFAS has been deployed also on the NATO classified systems. Deploying LAWFAS on the classified network has expanded its usefulness as a tool for information sharing and collaboration for theatre locations and other operational commands connected to those systems.
• LAWFAS provides NATO with a tailored capability for distributing pre-deployment legal training, retaining lessons learned, delivering continuing legal education, and providing a way for NATO to institutionalize its legal knowledge.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Consolidate and publish information on LAWFAS:
  • Define publishing workflows
  • Upload and collect missing/new documents
  • Review of uploaded documents
  • Complete metadata
  • Publish reviewed documents to authorized users
• Curate information in the LAWFAS platform consistent with organizational policies and procedures for records and knowledge management and best practices.
• Provide document search and related legal research support services to OLA and other authorized LAWFAS users using LAWFAS and other databases, repositories, procedures, and forms made available pursuant to paragraph 9, above.
• Provide subject matter expert advice to guide LAWFAS development including functional implementation, data configuration management, database usability, data migration, and problem correction.
• Capture user requirements and produce use cases to guide LAWFAS functional enhancements.
• Provide of subject matter expert technical support in the event of LAWFAS project meetings, including with LAWFAS demonstration or multimedia tools.
• Develop collaboration workflows and/or workspaces for ACO OLA and other NATO entities. Prepare technical, functional, and user documentation.
• Prepare test scenarios for formal testing of LAWFAS developments.
• Archive OLA letters, agreements, and other key documents. Maintain and enforce agreed data standards and data management practices. Explore other available legal data bases for the collection and update of LAWFAS documents and OLA archives.
• Provide help desk assistance to LAWFAS users.
• Develop LAWFAS data import and export services, and prepare required reports.
• Develop and maintain reference data, templates, business rules, and workflows to meet knowledge management and information life cycle requirements.
• Develop technical solutions in liaison with appropriate NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) staff.
• Develop LAWFAS sites to facilitate access to SHAPE and HQ SACT Central Repositories of International Agreements records and archives with appropriate access controls.
• Develop and prepare statistical analyses of LAWFAS data, as required.
• Assist in the preparation and development of protocol and conference related activities for LAWFAS-related NATO legal community collaboration forums.
• Create and maintain LAWFAS knowledge management resources in support of OLA newcomers, hand over take over files, legal offices SOPs, and OLA events as instructed.
• Provide LAWFAS user training.
• Perform other related paralegal and administrative support of OLA collaborative platforms and processes.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Competency in records and knowledge management and document library curation demonstrated through relevant experience or training.
• One year of experience in the last three (3) years in supporting a common document repository and collaborative tool and platform comparable to LAWFAS as described above;
• Practical experience in the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of a document repository, knowledge management system, or records management system integrating new policies, processes, technology and organization;

Desirable Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Experience working in or with NATO;
• Professional knowledge of French language;
• Experience or training in databases.
• Capable of working harmoniously and tactfully in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment;
• Capable of working effectively, providing structured and organised skills;
• Good communications skills;
• Capable of working independently;
• Capable of effectively liaising with military and civilian senior management personnel.

Language

• Business English

Working Location

• Mons, Belgium

Working Policy

• On-site (with possibility of working Remote in some circumstances)

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

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 – SHAPE-0027-R-B

Role Background

• LAWFAS is an operational concept to enhance the sharing of legal knowledge within the NATO community of interest and with NATO member nations and partners. Four inter-related parts compose it: information knowledge management concepts, energetic people, current information technology (IT), and the legal professionals in the NATO legal offices and legal offices in the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs of the 32 NATO nations.
• The NATO legal community developed LAWFAS as a tool for sharing, preserving, and using legal knowledge in furtherance of NATO education and training, collaboration, and interoperability. LAWFAS uses a web-based Microsoft SharePoint (SharePoint) application to support a common document repository and collaborative tools.
• Regarding operational readiness, the LAWFAS service had been considered under the Readiness Action Plan (RAP) Minimum Military Requirements, which means that LAWFAS is meant to support NATO Force Integration Unit personnel and other RAP-related personnel.
• As detailed below, contractor services are required to curate the information in the document repository and make it readily available and usable to LAWFAS users through continual development and improvement of the platform.
• It must be noted that one of the biggest challenges NATO faces is how to effectively connect and communicate within a segmented command structure. LAWFAS is used as a tool to mitigate this challenge for the NATO legal community by bridging organizational seams and linking offices that are, in many use cases, not within the same command structure. LAWFAS encourages communication within the large NATO legal community by providing an accessible, curated repository of information (such as NATO treaties and agreements, polices, directives, and procedures) that increases common knowledge. Through the SharePoint feature of colleaguefinder, LAWFAS also offers the ability to search for and connect qualified NATO legal experts with one another. Like any SharePoint application, it also provides controlled-access spaces for active collaboration on version-controlled documents between colleagues who may be in a single office, different countries, or even on different continents.
• An important goal of LAWFAS is to build better institutional memory. Relying on the Connected Forces Initiative concepts of interoperability through expanded education and training, exercises, and better use of technology, LAWFAS is establishing procedures to retain and retrieve information that has legal significance. This is particularly critical for operations and missions where the many types of legal issues faced at the different commands and regions of the theatre require extensive documentation and thoughtful evaluation. LAWFAS can be used to access key legal information whether users are at their desk in Mons, deployed, or even sitting in the white cell during NATO exercises. Relying on the NATO Special Operations Headquarters' proven information knowledge management (IKM) concepts, and applying the NATO Headquarters document management taxonomy, LAWFAS will remain constantly available despite troop rotations, staff changes, decommissioning of commands, and the opening and closing of operational theatres.
• Initially operational only on the unclassified NATO network, LAWFAS has been deployed also on the NATO classified systems. Deploying LAWFAS on the classified network has expanded its usefulness as a tool for information sharing and collaboration for theatre locations and other operational commands connected to those systems.
• LAWFAS provides NATO with a tailored capability for distributing pre-deployment legal training, retaining lessons learned, delivering continuing legal education, and providing a way for NATO to institutionalize its legal knowledge.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Update and explore technical and organizational solutions for securing and assuring the data in LAWFAS;
• Administer the LAWFAS platform through creation of new accounts, reset of expired passwords, and providing training and assistance to users.
• Manage the process for publishing information using the LAWFAS platform:
  • Define publishing workflows
  • Upload and collect missing/new documents
  • Review uploaded documents
  • Complete metadata
  • Publish curated documents to authorized users
• Develop templates and processes to implement data standards for LAWFAS records.
• Develop collaboration workflows and/or workspaces for ACO OLA and other NATO entities. Prepares technical, functional and user documentation. 16.2.6 Analyse and continually improve the usability of the LAWFAS platform.
• Archiving:
• Apply the NATO Information Management Policy (NIMP)
• Contribute technical expertise to inform potential revision of the NIMP
• Define archiving workflows and processes
• Develop processes and technical solutions to manage and archive currently nondigitalized records
• Provide SME advice for the management and validation of the operational software requirements for the LAWFAS tool, such as data configuration management, database operation, data migration, and problem correction.
• Provide LAWFAS SME tools Help Desk assistance to LAWFAS’ users.
• Conduct user requirements capture and use case production for the LAWFAS functional enhancements by the software technician. Investigate and identify technical solutions in liaison with the NCIA.
• Perform general IT / CIS support for the ACO OLA in liaison with the NCIA.
• Develop workflows and workspaces to facilitate legal office collaboration with other NATO entities.
• Support LAWFAS-related conferences and meetings, providing protocol support when required.
• Provide LAWFAS user training.
• Coordinate with the SHAPE Reprographics Section in support of the above.
• Perform other related technical and administrator duties as required in support of OLA, within the general scope of LAWFAS technical and administrative support services.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Knowledge of Information Computer Technology (ICT), with five years’ ICT experience in a comparable professional setting;
• Practical experience in the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of a common document repository and collaborative tool and platform integrating new policies, processes, technology and organization;
• One year experience in the last three (3) years in managing a platform comparable to LAWFAS as described above;
• Experience in functional support in the form of investigating and resolving problems, documenting solutions and implementing continual improvement processes.
• Experience demonstrating the ability to perform assigned tasks without immediate direct supervision;

Desirable Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Experience working in or with NATO;
• Experience assisting users to use a platform comparable to LAWFAS as described above.
• Capable of working harmoniously and tactfully in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment;
• Capable of working effectively, providing structured and organised skills;
• Good communications skills;
• Capable of working independently;
• Capable of effectively liaising with military and civilian senior management personnel.
• Professional knowledge of French language

Language Proficiency

• Business English

Working Location

• Mons, Belgium

Working Policy

• On-site (with possibility of working Remote in some circumstances)

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Job Overview

 As a programmatic expert, you will part of the WPP Media programmatic community. You will work closely with the client management teams from all WPP Media's agencies to suggest programmatic strategies and tactics that are in line with the overall media objectives of our clients.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Define KPI’s in collaboration with the digital planners and build the best programmatic strategy & tactical plan to achieve the client’s marketing objectives.
• Making sure that GroupM Programmatic Excellence is followed and applied to our clients’ campaigns.
• Being able to set up and optimize programmatic campaigns in different buying platforms (The Trade Desk, DV360, Xandr, Amazon DSP, Teads Ads Manager, etc.)
• Ensure a maximum of brand safety & brand suitability for our clients
• Working on a few side projects helping the business development of Nexus Media Solutions.

Job Skills & Requirements

• Master or Bachelor level in marketing, digital innovation or any business-related studies. Work experience is not required.
• You have 1-3 years of experience with programmatic buying in different DSP’s, or in any biddable expertise.
• You are well organized and have an eye for detail.
• You are team player with a naturally positive attitude and eager to learn
• You have the ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple tasks at the same time and keep your stress level under control.
• Very good verbal and written communication skills in English, French and/or Dutch.

Offer

• Flexible work arrangements
• Competitive salary and employee privileges
• Continuous learning and training within WPP Media's network
• Team and networking events