Senior Advisor International Partnerships - Maritime Security Ecosystem

**We seek a Senior Advisor to** - build **peer-cluster partnerships** with leading Northern European maritime security clusters such as Kiel, Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Horten and translate them into continuous joint activity. - position the Turku region in **EU and alliance-level programmes** (ENDR, EnSure Collaborative, EDF consortia, NATO DIANA, NATO Innovation Range). - establish **ecosystem-level connections** to the industrial ecosystems of Northern European prime contractors cluster-to-cluster, not individual customer relationships. - coordinate the regions **international event presence** as a recognized European maritime security cluster - Connect international work to **Turku Technology Campus** (University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku UAS, Novia) and to Finnish national authorities and industry associations. **_In this role you will_** - build peer-cluster partnerships with Northern European maritime security clusters - connect international work to Turku Technology Campus - position the Turku region in EU and alliance-level programmes - establish ecosystem-level connectios to the industrial ecosystems of Northern European prime contractors **_You should have_** - a strong combination of commercial and institutional substance - demonstrated experience in international networking and partnership building. **_Considered an advantage_** - existing networks in the maritime, defence or security sector in Northern Europe. - familiarity with EU and alliance-level instruments - experience a commercial diplomacy, export promotion or investment promotion - understand of dual-use technologies, autonomous systems or industrial AI. **_Note on eligibility_** - applicants must hold citizenship of a NATO member state. Finnish citizen ship is not required. **_We offer_** - a high-visibility role in the most strategically important industrial ecosystem in the region. - a clear mandate to build somethin that does not yet exist in the Finnish national structure: ecosystem-level international partnership work in maritime security. - an inspiring team in the most agile growth platform in the Baltic Sea region, with a clear mandate within your portfolio. This role is international by design and can pe performed in English. At the same time Business Turku´s working language is Finnish. We expect a working commend of Finnish or a credible willingness to build it during the assignment, and we are happy to support language development.