University Intern International Training and Exercises

Bern (and home office) | 80-100% | This position is also suitable for career starters

This is your contribution

• Plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate international military training and further education as well as multinational cyber exercises
• Participate in international Exercise Planning Groups (EPG) and independently take on defined sub-tasks and projects in the planning and preparation of multinational cyber exercises
• Support military planning and leadership processes, develop drafts for planning and leadership documents, and prepare leadership reports and other staff work
• Work together with national and international partners as well as training institutions and further develop international training cooperation
• Organizationally accompany training, exercise, and coordination projects, prepare meetings and workshops, maintain pending items and deadlines, and prepare results and lessons learned
• Analyze training needs and findings from international projects, support multi-year planning, and contribute to the further development of the capability building of the Kommando Cyber

What makes you unique

• University degree at Bachelor or Master level or shortly before completing a corresponding course of study, preferably in a field of study relevant to the function
• Interest in security, defense, and cyber policy, military training, as well as international issues
• Ideally experience in military leadership or staff work of the Schweizer Armee; knowledge of the leadership and staff organization (FSO) as well as international or NATO planning processes
• Taking on responsibility as well as independent, structured, and reliable processing of complex tasks
• Analytical mindset as well as organizational and coordination skills; precise written expression and willingness to undertake national and international business trips

In a nutshell

A university internship with responsibility and international orientation: You will participate directly in the planning of multinational cyber exercises and international training projects, work in military staff and international planning structures, and actively help shape the further development of the international training and exercise activities of the Kommando Cyber.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the Swiss success model and work for the well-being of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunity, we develop our competencies and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits (https://www.stelle.admin.ch/stelle/de/home/bundesverwaltung/ihre-vorteile-auf-einen-blick.html)

Your commitment to security and freedom

The Kommando Cyber (Kdo Cy) stands for competence in the areas of cyber and digitalization. We combine enthusiasm for our task with know-how, innovation, state-of-the-art technologies, and agile working methods. We provide secure, robust, and resilient IT services for the Schweizer Armee and our partners in the Swiss security network. In doing so, the Kdo Cy enables the Schweizer Armee to have the necessary knowledge and decision-making advantage -- for a secure Switzerland.

The Schweizer Armee employs over 9'000 employees in four military and around 200 civilian professions -- and this at 110 locations throughout Switzerland. Provisions are also made for the next generation: The Schweizer Armee trains apprentices in over 30 professions.

Additional information

Employment with the Schweizer Armee makes sense and brings many advantages. Convince yourself at armee.ch/vorteile (https://www.vtg.admin.ch/de/vorteile).

The degree completion may be a maximum of 18 months prior to the start of employment. The internship at 80-100% begins by arrangement and lasts twelve months.

Questions about the position

Alexandre Rydlo
Chef FGG 7
+41 58 46 07702