Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted.  

The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues.

SPA's NATO Allied Command Transformation Group, within JOID, provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage. 

We have a near-term need for a Onboarding & Learning Subject Matter Expert to provide onsite support out of NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in Norfolk, VA.

The candidate will provide developmental support to define “personas” to demonstrate understanding of the ACT target audience(s) and to test pathways, collect and consolidate business information requirements for staff, shape to levels of experience and cultural awareness, and develop learning pathways/maturity models that consider staff competencies (knowledge, skills, and experience) for cross-organizational culture, NATO-specific topics, and in defined functional areas. The candidate will also collaborate with ACT culture and functional communities to design specific research functional or skills standards where functions have reasonable civilian or military equivalents with accessible information. Run workshops to elicit, consolidate, and/or validate functional requirements, and consolidate job descriptions to identify stated functional levels. Communicate pathways via maturity models and/or competency roadmaps using standard MS Office tools and/or central intranet resources, define and support onboarding activities for new staff up to 12 months from arrival to embed organizational culture, and develop learning games, role-play, and other experiential learning events. Collect, consolidate, and act on feedback received across competency development activities, and perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to culture assessment and formation or staff training development.

Required:

• Certification (including a Bachelor's degree or other advanced professional qualification) in Organizational Development, instructional design and education, or a related field
• Minimum 3 years in the last 6 in the field of organizational development and learning, or corporate skills development in complex knowledge-based organizations
• NATO Secret clearance or national equivalent
• Experience shaping experimental learning and skills development for multinational audiences, especially for high and low power-distance audiences
• Experience in shaping staff onboarding and communication of business information
• Able to work fully onsite based on client needs