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Project Officer for Experimentation
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- Grade
- Not specified
- Contract
- Temporary Staff
- Basic salary estimate
- Salary not mapped
- Deadline
- October 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM · Europe/Brussels
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
About the employer · EU agency
European Defence Agency
The European Defence Agency supports member states in developing defence capabilities and strengthening European defence cooperation.
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Radar brief
Project Officer for Experimentation is an opportunity at European Defence Agency · Temporary Staff · Brussels, Belgium.
Why this role matters
This role supports EDA's mission to assess innovative solutions for Member States' defence capability needs through structured experimentation and trials.
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What you would do
- Support the preparation, coordination and implementation of EDA experimentation activities aimed at assessing innovative solutions against Member States’ operational needs and capability priorities.
- Contribute to the planning and delivery of challenge-driven trials, including digital experimentation, modelling and simulation activities, field experimentation, demonstrations and operational experimentation campaigns.
- Assist in the development of experimentation plans, test objectives, scenarios, metrics, data collection approaches and evidence requirements, ensuring traceability between operational challenges, test activities and assessment outputs.
- Contribute to the preparation of technical and operational documentation for experimentation activities, including trial plans, participant guidance, evidence templates, risk registers, after-action reports and lessons learned.
- Assist in the collection, structuring and analysis of experimentation results, ensuring that outputs are usable for Member States.
- Support the coordination of participating companies, Member State representatives, technical experts, operational users and contractors involved in experimentation activities.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of EDA experimentation methodologies, playbooks, templates and common approaches, in order to increase comparability, reproducibility and reusability of results across Member States.
- Contribute to the preparation of briefings, reports, presentations and other deliverables for Member States, EDA management and external stakeholders on experimentation activities and results.
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Eligibility snapshot
Must have
- A university degree (or equivalent academic degree) in a field relevant to the duties, such as engineering, physics, science and technology, defence academy, operational research, systems engineering.
- At least six years of professional experience relevant to the duties of the post, acquired after the award of the minimum qualification required as a condition of eligibility.
- A demonstrated track record in supporting defence capability development or procurement activities through experimentation, test and evaluation, demonstrations and operational trials.
- Proven experience in the preparation of experimentation plans, test objectives, scenarios, data collection approaches, evidence requirements, trial documentation, risk registers, after-action reports or lessons-learned outputs.
- A track record of international cooperation in operational experimentation and/or trials, military exercises.
- A good understanding of the European defence cooperation environment and of EDA’s role in supporting Member States.
- A very good command of written and oral English.
- take on additional tasks as required in the interest of the service.
Advantageous
- Experience in military, defence, security, civil protection, aerospace, cyber, space, robotics, autonomous systems or other technology-intensive experimentation environments.
- Familiarity with military exercises, operational experimentation campaigns, field trials, test ranges, laboratories, digital sandboxes or modelling and simulation environments.
- Experience with data collection, instrumentation, experiment design, scenario development, wargaming, simulation or analytical tools.
- A recognised project management certification and/or training in systems engineering, test and evaluation, operational analysis or modelling and simulation.
- The following will be considered an advantage:
- experience in military, defence, security, civil protection, aerospace, cyber, space, robotics, autonomous systems or other technology-intensive experimentation environments;
- familiarity with military exercises, operational experimentation campaigns, field trials, test ranges, laboratories, digital sandboxes or modelling and simulation environments;
- experience with data collection, instrumentation, experiment design, scenario development, wargaming, simulation or analytical tools;
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Temporary-agent post. Contract duration, renewal, probation and grade conditions remain governed by the official notice.
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Employer: European Defence Agency Status: Open Contract type: Temporary Staff Opening date: 2026-09-03T12:00:00+00:00 Deadline: 2026-10-06T21:59:59+00:00 Application page Details Status Open Opening date 3 September 2026 Deadline 6 October 2026, 23:59 (CEST) Agency EDA - European Defence Agency Vacancy Type Public…
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