ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS Mr. Philip Turner NATO Manpower Policy International Military Staff/ HQ NATO turner.philip@hq.nato.int Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 1 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 2 STANDARD LANGUAGE PROFILE (SLP) LEVELS Level 1 – Survival Level 2 – Functional Level 3 – Professional Level 4 – Expert Level 5 – Highly Articulate Native Speaker Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS FACTORS The SLP requirements for NATO posts are set without expert scrutiny. STANAG 6001 is not non-specialist userfriendly. SLP Level 5 is redundant. Achieving SLP Levels 3 and 4 is not easy. Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS LANGUAGE NEEDS ANALYSIS OF CE POSTS All posts at Level 1 required less language ability than requested by the JD. 70% of the JDs requiring SLPs in the Level 2 range were considered ‘high’ The majority of JDs for posts required Level 3 SLPs. Only 42% of these SLPs were considered appropriate. Only 51% of the profiles at 4343 were considered to have tasks at that leve.l Only 1% of the JDs had SLPs of 4444. 75% of these were considered appropriate. Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 5 STATED SLP REQUIREMENTS IN NATO JDs – MAY 2010 NCS ACO ACT NCSA SLP % of Posts % of Posts % of Posts % of Posts 4444 0.8% 1.0% 1.9% 0.0% 4343 6.3% 8.4% 10.3% 1.4% 3333 41.9% 48.0% 65.7% 23.8% 3322 29.2% 27.0% 21.3% 35.7% 2222 21.8% 15.7% 0.8% 39.1% Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 6 level 5555 4444 OF-7/8/9 OF-6 1 OF-5 3333 4333 3231 3332 2222 2220 TOTAL 8 8 5 6 71 5 1 106 30 10 1 148 OF-3/2 3 6 3 9 21 OR-7/8/9 10 1 12 8 OR-4/5/6 9 1 17 3 CIV A 18 6 1 OF-4 SLP REQTS IN NATO JDs – IMS JUN 2013 4343 1 CIV B5/6 1 4 CIV B4 1 16 CIV B3 8 1 CIV B2 77 1 5 9 32 4 24 5 2 13 4 3 24 9 1 2 21 1 1 CIV C TOTAL MANNIN G TOTAL 4 Logistics & Resources Division PERCENT 0.9% 48 4 4 427 258 51 62 60.4% 11.9% 14.5% 27 5 12 4 4 6.3% 1.1% 2.8% 0.9% 0.9% NATO UNCLASSIFIED 7 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS IN NATO JOB DESCRIPTIONS Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 8 Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 9 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS QUESTIONS? Logistics & Resources Division NATO UNCLASSIFIED 10