Cybersecurity Portfolio Analyst Intern

Primary Location

Netherlands-The Hague

NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)

Full-time

08-Mar-2026, 11:59:00 PM

1,477.30 Euro (EUR) Monthly

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For more than 75 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliancefor nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) is NATO’s technology and cyber hub. We are a team of 3400 civilian and military staff, working together to connect all corners of NATO and maintain its edge from 30 locations across the Alliance.

We are a key partner in NATO's Digital Transformation, working hand in hand with industry to provide technical solutions and expertise, facilitating political consultations and decision-making, and enabling multi-domain operations.

Our experts provide secure static and deployable communications infrastructure, satellite communications and information technology services, connected the Alliance’s forces, and strengthening NATO’s defence and deterrence posture. Fulfilling NCIA’s missions is possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to reinforce NATO’s edge, we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join NCIA, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us ensure seamless connectivity among Allied partner nations.

The NCIA internship is a 6-month program based at one of our key hubs in The Netherlands, Belgium or Portugal. Our internship opportunities start from either 1 March or 1 September with the start date being dependent on the timeline to secure the required security clearance to work within the NATO community. During an internship, you will join and support a diverse international team and simultaneously learn from our experts via on-the-job training, working independently on purposeful projects or initiatives during your tenure.

Internship duration: 6 months

Location:

The Hague, Netherlands

The NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is responsible for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities for cyber security. In execution of this responsibility, it provides specialist cyber security-related services covering the spectrum of scientific, technical, acquisition, operations, maintenance, and sustainment support. NCSC provides services in the specialist security areas such as: CIS Security, Cyber Defence, Information Assurance, Computer Security and Communications Security.

Working within the NATO Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC), the intern will support improved data measurement, analysis, and visualization across approximately 60 cybersecurity projects under the NATO Security Investment Programme (NSIP). Reporting to the Project Management Section Head, you will coordinate with project managers and stakeholders to enhance project reporting and portfolio management. Responsibilities include collecting historical workflow data, project milestones, financials, and quality metrics to create a reliable and standardized project dataset;

developing a standard visualization template for project reporting; and supporting regular coordination and portfolio reporting activities. The role offers meaningful exposure to large-scale cybersecurity project oversight and data-driven governance.

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role is:

• Data visualisation: Uses a visualisation product, selects appropriate visualisation techniques from the options available, engages with the target user to prototype and refine specified visualisations.
• Measurement: Applies standard techniques to support the specification of measures and the collection and maintenance of data for measurement, generates, produces and distributes reports, uses measurement tools for routine analysis of data, identifies and implements improvements to data collection methods.
• Portfolio, programme and project support: Assists with the compilation of portfolio, programme and project…