Overview
Manage NATO’s Core GIS-based Common Intelligence Picture (CIP/Red Spider), responsible for its development, maintenance, and improvement to ensure effective access and sharing across NATO.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the ACO Common Intelligence Picture, known as CIP/Red Spider.
- Oversee the day-to-day development, maintenance, and improvement of the system.
- Identify and coordinate data requirements.
- Work with intelligence, command and control, geospatial, meteorological, oceanographic, and other data owners to identify what information is needed in CIP/Red Spider.
- Ensure relevant data is available, usable, and properly integrated.
- Support the collection, ingestion, discovery, and use of location-based data from multiple NATO systems and communities.
- Prioritize operational requirements.
- Work with J2 leadership, data owners, users, and other stakeholders to decide which improvements and data needs are most important.
- Manage data access and governance.
- Ensure the right users can access the right data, while maintaining appropriate data access controls and procedures.
- Coordinate technical improvements and system interoperability.
- Work with technology providers, CoreGIS staff, NCIA, and other technical teams to ensure CIP/Red Spider uses current GIS technology and remains interoperable with NATO systems.
- Coordinate the people and organizations supporting the project.
- Bring together staff from ACO, NCIA, working groups, data providers, and other stakeholders to keep the project on track.
- Support exercises and operational readiness.
- Ensure CIP/Red Spider is properly included in NATO exercises, with the required data available and aligned for exercise use.
- Contribute to future capability development.
- Provide input to plans, requirements, capability packages, policies, doctrine, and future intelligence, geospatial, meteorological, and oceanographic systems.
- Manage stakeholder engagement, budgets, and project risks.
- Liaise with NATO nations, NATO bodies, data communities, and relevant authorities; coordinate budget matters; and help identify and resolve issues affecting project success.
Required Experience
- Experience as a Geospatial Staff Officer or Civilian Equivalent
- Experience including: Strong understanding of GIS technologies, systems, data- and metadata governance
- Strong Intelligence Background (ideally INTEL SO qualification), systems, functions, data, processes
- Broad understanding of METOC related issues (INTEL-related; e.g. served in GEOMETOC functions)
- Strong understanding of C2 capabilities and data landscapes
- Strong experience in requirements management
- Military Staff experience in Strategic Headquarters at Echelon above Operational HQ and knowledge of the organization of geospatial, GEOINT, Intelligence and related service lanes.
- Past mission deployments on the tactical level.
- Expert understanding in the political and strategic environment, expert understanding of NATO.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in Geospatial / Geo-Intelligence
- Project management and strategic communication
- University Degree in geography, computer science, management information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, project management or related discipline and 4 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 7 years post related experience.
