CAPDEV QUALITY MANAGEMENT BRANCH, QUALITY ASSURANCE ...

Job Description DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and co-ordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. CAPDEV is responsible to: a. Identify and prioritize Alliance capability shortfalls from short to long term, along a continuum of holistic capability development. b. Lead the determination of required capabilities and prioritization of shortfalls to inform the delivery of materiel and non-materiel solutions across the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, and Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Interoperability (DOTMLPFI) lines of effort to enable a holistic approach to capability development, ensuring improved interoperability, deployability and sustainability of Alliance Forces. Tasking 1. Provide independent quality assurance of information, management products and processes, and quality reports for CAPDEV leadership. 2. Provide quality assurance expertise in support of HQ SACT's program management and requirements engineering and specifically in support of Requirements Managers undertaking the Identification, elicitation, capture, analysis, evaluation, integration and maintenance of high-quality capability (business) requirements. 3. Support the ongoing development, and maintenance of the requirements repository and requirements related information and the achievement and maintenance of the organization's requirements and quality expectations. 4. Support the development and maintenance of processes relating to capability development and delivery. Contribute to the development of directives and standard operating procedures that relate to capability development and delivery including requirements development and management and the ACT Requirements Repository. 5. Contributes to organizational continual process improvement activities. 6. Participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above. Requirements Essential Qualifications: 1. A University Degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, programme and project management or related disciplines. 2. Five years' experience in the last 10 in the field of quality assurance including requirements for engineering processes. 3. Demonstrated minimum National SECRET clearance with the appropriate national authority for the duration of the contract. 4. Nationality of one of the NATO Countries. 5. Demonstrated proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001 (Standardized Linguistic Profile (SLP) 3333 - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) or equivalent. 6. Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last 5 years) experience working in support of processes that were formally certified in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard. 7. Experience with IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM), DOORS Next or equivalent tool for quality assurance and requirements engineering including personal use of quality assurance tools for evidence-based quality reporting. 8. Government Secret Clearance is required.

Created: 2026-03-10