Learning and development
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Brussels
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Hybrid
Training Design and Delivery Consultant (Digital Transformation) for NATO with security clearance
Coordinate the design and delivery of NATO-wide learning and development — user research, blended learning, engagement strategy and the metrics behind it. Brussels, mostly remote.
A NATO organisation is looking for someone to orchestrate its enterprise-wide learning and development programme: working out what people actually need, designing the offerings that meet it, getting them adopted across a very large and very distributed organisation, and measuring whether any of it landed. It is a single-contractor role, 90% remote with roughly one day in ten in Brussels.
What you would be doing
- User research and journey mapping — quarterly research into user needs and pain points, enterprise personas and journey maps that show where the experience can be improved.
- Designing and delivering the offerings — bespoke training needs analyses for technical and non-technical audiences, then shaping the residential, mobile and hybrid learning that answers them, through a learning management system.
- Engagement strategy — building and running engagement, communication and adoption plans, and working with designers, developers and product managers on learning experiences people will actually use.
- Running several projects at once and landing them on time, on cost and to quality — milestones, learning pathways, risks, issues and the mitigations for both.
- Metrics — tracking bespoke engagement measures, analysing them, and making recommendations that follow from the data rather than from opinion.
- Change management — a plan to support adoption, including identifying and dealing with resistance rather than hoping it goes away.
- Stakeholder management — identifying who is affected across the enterprise, building the relationships, keeping people informed, and reporting institutional analysis and quality assurance straight to senior leadership.
- Content — adapting at least four content artefacts a month for internal channels, collaborating with ten or more entities so the messaging stays consistent, reviewing digital content weekly and refreshing the curation approach every couple of months.
- Supporting internal events, workshops and leadership development programmes, and the dissemination of leadership messages.
- Establishing feedback mechanisms and designing the enterprise-wide engagement metrics used to judge whether communication is working.
What they are looking for
- More than seven years of NATO experience in education and training, and more than seven years in industry in change management and L&D roles.
- A Master's in communications, public relations or a security-related field, or substantial experience running digital transformation in an international environment.
- Previous experience at NATO headquarters and across the wider NATO enterprise doing digital transformation stakeholder engagement, strategy planning and operational delivery.
- A track record of working with NATO's education and training facilities and the strategic commands on learning and development.
- An internationally recognised cybersecurity certification.
- Significant event management experience, and the planning, design and delivery of NATO learning exercises and training events.
- Demonstrated ability to build learning architectures and skills-competency mappings using the SFIA and NICE frameworks.
- Applied experience of the NATO lessons-learned process for quality assurance.
- The ability to juggle several tasks in a fast-moving environment.
Nice to have
- Certification in ITIL 4 and in agile project management.
- Proficiency with the NATO Joint Exercise Management Module (JEMM) and the NATO Training Objective Management Module (TOMM).
Practical detail
- 90% remote, 10% on site in Brussels, with travel to NATO locations — up to one trip a month, and at least four a year. Travel and subsistence are included in the price, not reimbursed separately.
- Belgian business hours: Monday to Thursday 08:30-17:30, Friday 08:30-15:30 CET.
- Starting no later than 15 September 2026 and running to 31 December 2026, with independent options for 2027 and for 2028.
- This is a single-contractor assignment.
- You must hold a valid clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country.
If you have spent years getting large, sceptical, internationally scattered organisations to learn something new, this one is built for you.
- Department
- Learning and development
- Locations
- Brussels
- Remote status
- Hybrid