Multilateral Affairs Consultant

TN Norway is a specialist service provider supporting apex purchasers and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem. We are seeking a Multilateral Affairs Consultant to support key client projects.

The NATO Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) is responsible for improving the Alliance's operational capabilities through training and exercises. The JWC plays a critical role in preparing NATO forces for future challenges by:

• Conducting large-scale, joint operational-level training events, simulations, and exercises to enhance interoperability among NATO member nations.
• Contributing to the development and refinement of NATO doctrines and concepts.
• Offering expert support to NATO operations, missions, and exercises.

The JWC supports NATO's overall strategic objectives by ensuring that its forces are well-prepared and capable of responding to various global threats and challenges.

• Represent the African Union (AU) and/or Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with operational and tactical knowledge to the exercise and to the training audience.
• Develop a concept of operations for the involvement of the AU/ECOWAS in the conflict, reflecting tasking for interactions with the training audience. Coordinate with HICON.
• Coordinate with political and military fictitious representatives (e.g. affected nation politicians and senior military figures) to ensure coherent AU/ECOWAS representation in the exercise.
• Provide AU/ECOWAS documents to the exercise and interact with the training audience as the AU/ECOWAS representative.
• Act as the focal point for the training audience for all political and operational matters relating to the AU/ECOWAS within the exercise.
• Analyse developing training audience plans and documentation and their impacts on AU/ECOWAS matters.
• Familiarise yourself with the latest relevant African Union/ECOWAS publications.

• Demonstrate experience of working within AU/ECOWAS at a senior level.
• Demonstrate 1 year experience in the last 10 of working with the AU/ECOWAS at a senior level.