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Spektrum

Principal Assistant (SATCOM)

On site

Braine-l’alleud, Belgium

Senior

Full Time

03-03-2026

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Skills

Communication Leadership Stakeholder Management Sales Databases

Job Specifications

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

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 – C004573

Role Duties And Responsibilities

Contributes to the development of policies, processes, standards and guidelines for strategy development and planning.
Develops and communicates plans to drive forward the strategy and related change planning.
Provides support and guidance to help stakeholders adhere to the approach.
Ensures that all stakeholders are aware of the strategic management approach and timetables.
Collates information and creates reports and insights to support strategy management processes.
Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations.
Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.
Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
Leads and coordinates strategic initiatives working across departmental or functional boundaries.
Designs the timetable of executive-level meetings and forums.
Sets agenda, format and desired outcomes for meetings.
Provides direction and receives progress updates from members of an executive team.
Meets collectively or individually with members of a leadership management team to follow up on action points, issues and risks.
Reports on progress and resolves issues.
Manages highly sensitive and confidential issues and information.
Organizes and coordinates large meetings and conferences.
Contributes to office administration improvements and best practices.
Consults on a full spectrum of enterprise office administration activities.
Designs office administration functions and workflow.
Monitors industry and marketplace trends and directions for office administration.
Monitors effectiveness of support staff; recommends improvements.
Monitor the Key Performance Indicators of Projects a

About the Company

Spektrum are an international sales and management consulting firm who don’t just say we’re different, we are different. We solve today's defence, humanitarian and government market problems, evolving to meet its clients' challenges. Know more