SA (2030 OPFOR Sustainment Expert)

Overview

Seeking a Sustainment Expert to join the OPFOR team, focusing on developing adversarial effects to challenge and prepare NATO forces for modern warfare. The role involves shaping how sustainment is represented in collective training and exercises.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing subject-matter advice in all aspects of sustainment in joint operations during the creation of setting or scenario products for JWC-directed exercises, wargames, or other collective trainings;
• Providing subject-matter advice in all aspects of sustainment in adversaries’ joint operations to the respective Chief OPFOR for an exercise, wargame, or other collective training event;
• Drafting detailed schemes of sustainment in joint operations based on doctrine of adversaries (in particular Russia) and on Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area (DDA) assumptions;
• Leading a team of sustainment experts during JWC-directed exercise events according to the guidance of the respective Chief OPFOR;
• Providing internal training to the OPFOR Branch and JWC in general;
• Attending internal and external workshops or other individual training events related to sustainment in order to keep the knowledge up to date;
• Establishing a liaison network with other relevant subject-matter experts (in particular in NATO Command Structure).

Required Experience

• At least 3 years of experience sustainment planning in a joint environment.
• Demonstrated good knowledge of the adversaries’ (in particular Russian) sustainment capabilities.
• Knowledge of and functional experience in exercise planning or exercise production.
• Previous work in a red team or opposing forces team.

Qualifications

• Higher Secondary education and completed higher vocational training in logistics planning, economics, or acquisition fields, or related discipline and 3 years function related experience, or Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related experience.
• University degree in logistics planning, economics, or acquisition fields, or related discipline.

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