Requirements Management Specialist – Defence Systems

Location: Norfolk, VA

Security Clearance: Active NATO Secret Clearance Required

Key Responsibilities

• Support federated interoperability activities throughout the capability lifecycle.
• Elicit, capture, collect, and manage interoperability requirements across all aspects of DOTMLPFI.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of policies, directives, concepts, governance frameworks, and processes related to federated interoperability.
• Monitor and maintain the quality, completeness, and consistency of interoperability test data within designated tools.
• Identify data gaps, coordinate corrective actions, and support data analysis and reporting.
• Coordinate communications with Communities of Interest (COIs) and prepare participants for interoperability events and activities.
• Provide guidance to participants on interoperability processes, tools, requirements, and event procedures.
• Coordinate and contribute to the activities of the interoperability programme team.
• Analyse interoperability data and support the preparation and delivery of reports, briefings, meeting minutes, action lists, and executive summaries.
• Prepare documentation and briefings for military and civilian audiences, including senior leadership.
• Administer user accounts and maintain secure, role-based access to designated interoperability testing tools.
• Support programme and section leadership with stakeholder coordination, task tracking, timelines, and deliverables.
• Plan, prepare, coordinate, and manage meetings, workshops, conferences, exercises, and other programme activities.
• Attend meetings and conferences within and outside the assigned operational region, with travel of up to 30 days per year.
• Perform additional duties related to the role as assigned.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from a nationally recognized or accredited university.
• Proven experience in multinational collaboration and coordination, preferably in defence or equivalent multinational environments.
• Professional experience supporting interoperability initiatives, programmes, campaigns, exercises, and activities involving multiple stakeholders and nations.
• Experience managing interoperability requirements, governance, data collection, and reporting.
• Experience planning, preparing, coordinating, and managing meetings, workshops, conferences, exercises, and stakeholder activities.
• Experience preparing meeting minutes, action lists, reports, briefings, and summaries for military and civilian audiences, including senior leadership.
• Experience managing, editing, and processing interoperability data using defence, national, or multinational toolsets.
• Programme and project management experience in complex and dynamic programme environments.
• Excellent organizational skills, including timeline management, deliverable tracking, task coordination, and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong analytical, documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills.