Overview
The Staff Officer (Cyber Coalition Exercise) supports the Cyber Coalition Exercise Director and staff in organizing the Cyber Coalition exercise. This role involves developing exercise specifications, plans, and reports, and coordinating various aspects of exercise development.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify level of ambition for annual CC, based on V&S implementation.
- Identify and describe the most likely scenarios and storylines, to propose to the Exercise Group.
- Identify and describe the most likely experiments and concept validation activities, to propose to the experimentation team.
- Document the above in the annual draft exercise specification.
- Act as the PoC for Cyber Coalition concept, scenario, storyline and implementation development activities.
- Attend meetings and ensure that above strategic elements are properly implemented into the exercise.
- Support the Exercise Director in developing the proper participation, audience and partnerships.
- Provide support to Cyber Coalition Exercise Director for development of exercise objectives and training objectives.
- Coordinate development of exercise specifications, exercise plan and final exercise report.
- Provide guidance to the Exercise Group on organizational aspects of future exercise developments.
- Ensure LL requests, planning, creation, collection, staffing and handling in accordance with the NATO LL Process is an integrated part of the Post Exercise Discussion (PXD).
- Represent the Exercise Director on appropriate Cyber Coalition related committees, task force, panels and working groups as directed.
Required Experience
- Six years' experience (depending on educational background/degrees) in the organization of military exercises, preferably at operational and/or strategic level including exercise content development, execution and evaluation.
- Four years' experience in participation in cyber exercises, preferably operational and military ones (cyber C2, situational awareness, cyber ISR or offensive cyberspace operations), rather than technical (red-on-blue) ones.
- Six years’ Cyber and/or CIS experience.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or similar national academic qualification in computer science, network security, cyber-security or any related field. Can be substituted with Bachelor Degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field and/or verifiable long time experience in the subject.
- Post-grade education in CIS security and cyberdefence disciplines, as Certified Information Systems security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified information security Manager (CISM).
