Project Officer Resilience Capabilities

Contract type: Temporary agent

Directorate: Capability, Armament and Planning Directorate (CAP)

Group: N.A.

Grade: AD9

Level of Security Clearance: SECRET UE/EU SECRET

Management of staff: N.A.

Location: Brussels

Indicative starting date: 16/01/2027

Closing date for applications: 13/10/2026

1\. BACKGROUND
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The European Defence Agency (EDA) was established on 12 July 2004, and is governed by Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1835 defining the statute, seat and operational rules of the European Defence Agency. The Agency has its headquarters in Brussels.

The main task of EDA is to support the Council and the Member States in their effort to improve the Union's defence capabilities in the field of crisis management and to sustain the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) as it currently stands and as it develops in the future.

The Agency is structured into four directorates. The Corporate Services Directorate (CSD) and three operational directorates: Industry, Synergies and Enablers (ISE); Capability, Armament \& Planning (CAP); Research, Technology and Innovation (RTI).

2\. THE AGENCY'S WAY OF WORKING
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The Agency is an “outward\-facing” organisation, constantly interacting with its shareholders, the participating Member States, as well as with a wide range of stakeholders. It works in an integrated way, with multi\-disciplinary teams representing all of the Agency’s functional areas, to realise its objectives. Its business processes are flexible and oriented towards achieving results. Staff at all levels need to demonstrate the corresponding qualities of commitment, flexibility, innovation, and team\-working; to work effectively with shareholders and stakeholder groups, formal and informal; and to operate without the need for detailed direction.

3\. THE CAPABILITY, ARMAMENT AND PLANNING DIRECTORATE (CAP)
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The Capability, Armament \& Planning Directorate (CAP) supports EU Member States in identifying and preparing possible cooperation projects and programmes ranging from long term military capability development to short term armament procurement. This includes obtaining agreement on shared needs and related priorities, harmonising capability requirements and conducting capability development preparatory activities, and also aggregating demand towards joint procurement.

The Directorate is operating several EU tools related to capability development and planning, in cooperation with other competent EU institutions and bodies. The Capability Development Plan (CDP), managed together with the EU Military Staff (EUMS) leads to identification of Capability Development Priorities agreed at EU level as a reference for all EU initiatives on Defence. The Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), ran together with the EUMS, enables to characterise the “State of the Union on Defence” and to identify opportunities for cooperation. The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), conducted together with the European External Action Service (EEAS), including EUMS, coordinates the analysis of the annual PESCO National Implementation Plans to assess the participating Member States’ fulfilment of the PESCO commitments, assesses Member States’ PESCO project proposals and monitors their progress. These tools are operated with Member States throughout a structured EU Capability Development Planning System (EU\-CDPS).

Within EU CDPS, the Directorate engages with Member States’ Capability planners and experts to implement the EU Capability Development Priorities based on agreed collaborative Roadmaps. When preparatory activities enable to identify a possible cooperation project, the Directorate support Member States interested in the project by elaborating with them a Business Case.

The CAP Directorate comprises six Units; four are addressing capability development and armament procurement activities of operational domains associated to EU agreed priorities and two are operating EU related processes and tools:

• Air Domain Unit: Air Combat, Airborne Command and Inform Capabilities, Integrated Air and Missile Defence, Air Transport


• Land and Logistics Unit: Ground Combat Capabilities, Land\-Based Precision Engagement, Future Soldier Systems, Logistics, Military Mobility, CBRN Defence, C\-IED


• Information Superiority Unit: Communication \& Information Systems, Surveillance \& Reconnaissance, Space, Cyber Defence


• Maritime Unit: Naval Combat and Maritime Interdiction, Underwater and Seabed Warfare, Maritime Domain Awareness


• Cooperation Planning Unit: Capability Development Priorities, CARD, Defence Data


• PESCO Unit: PESCO secretariat, assessment of fulfilment of commitments as well as new PESCO project proposals, support to PESCO projects

Under the supervision of the Head of Unit Land and Logistics, the jobholder will be responsible for identifying, planning and initiating collaborative capability development activities in the Resilience and Support area. In particular, the jobholder will be responsible for the following activities:

• support the harmonisation of EU Member States (MS) capability planning in the Resilience and contribute to the development of military concepts to address the current and future capability needs;


• ensure coherence of capability development activities across the Resilience and Support areas, contributing to EDA’s and the EU’s broader resilience, support and preparedness objectives;


• implement EDA Core Tasks 3 and 4, namely harmonisation of military requirements and aggregation of demand towards joint procurement, leading to elaborate Business Cases with MS interested in launching specific collaborative development/acquisition projects;


• manage and, when required, chair, the Capability Planners Group (CPG) Support Functions; support the related Capability Expert Groups (CEGs) on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Defence, Medical Support and Critical Infrastructure Protection and Energy Security (CIPES), and contribute to any other related working groups (such as PCAs CGs), seminars and meetings where the jobholder may provide technical direction and guidance as subject matter expert;


• propose, manage and coordinate the work plan for the implementation of the corresponding Priority Implementation Roadmaps (PIRs) and provide the necessary guidance to the associated CEGs in the Resilience Area (CBRN Defence, Medical Support, CIPES);


• ensure coherence between the 3 CEGs implementing Resilience’ Priorities, the cross\-domain capability development activities within CAP Directorate and support\-related work strands across the Agency, including the EU Hub for Defence Innovation (HEDI);


• address the military perspective on countering hybrid threats related to the 3 areas of interest, namely CBRN Defence, Medical Support and CIPES, ensuring engagement at planning stage in transversal activities and civil\-military cooperation.


• interact, as appropriate, with relevant external stakeholders such as the European External Action Service (EEAS), EU Military Staff (EUMS), European Commission (EC), NATO, EU Defence technological and Industrial base (EDTIB), and any other relevant EU Institutions, bodies and agencies;


• plan and manage activities funded by the EDA Operational Budget, as required;


• contribute to the further development and improvement of the Capability Development Plan (CDP), including identifying, promoting and proposing meaningful collaborative opportunities framed under the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) within the jobholder’s area of responsibility;


• contribute to the assessment of PESCO project proposals, European Defence Fund (EDF)\-related work programme topics and other DG DEFIS \- led initiatives (such as EDIP), and provide support to collaborative projects upon Member States’ request, including by identifying synergies among existing initiatives; provide technical advice related to the jobholder’s area of responsibility to EU defence\-related policies and concepts;


• represent EDA in meetings, conferences and seminars, as required;


• deputise for the Head of Unit when required;


• take on additional tasks as required in the interest of the service.

5\. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
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To be considered eligible to take part in this selection procedure, on the closing date for the submission of applications candidates must satisfy all the eligibility criteria as specified below:

• be a national of a Member State participating in the Agency;


• be entitled to their full rights as citizens;


• have fulfilled any obligations imposed on them by the laws concerning military service;


• produce the appropriate character references as to their suitability for the performance of their duties (extract from the “judicial record” or certificate of good conduct will be requested prior to recruitment);


• be physically fit to perform their duties;


• have a thorough knowledge (minimum level C1 oral and written) of one of the languages of the participating Member States and a satisfactory knowledge (minimum level B2 oral and written) of another of these languages to the extent necessary to discharge their duties;


• have no personal interest (financial, family relationship, or other) which could be in conflict with disinterested discharge of their duties within the Agency;


• hold, or be in a position to obtain, a valid Personnel Security Clearance Certificate (national or EU PSC at SECRET UE/EU SECRET level). Personnel Security Clearance Certificate (PSCC) means a certificate issued by a competent authority establishing that an individual is security cleared and holds a valid national or EU PSC, and

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