Defense Operations Analyst — Strategic Capability

Wlgroup; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 104 000 - 139 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Wlgroup is seeking a capable operations research professional for an international assignment relocation to the United States. You will lead analytical work supporting capability development and provide evidence packages for programme decisions.

Responsibilities include conducting action analyses, planning research, engaging with industry, and communicating uncertainties. Travel up to sixty days annually is expected. Fluent English is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in a quantitative field or 5+ years leading operational analysis.
• Two examples in the last ten years, three years combined, of military operations research.
• Experience designing structured stakeholder sessions to draw objectives, assumptions, measures and risks.
• Experience scoping problems for study and developing the analysis approach.
• Experience building data collection and analysis plans with measures of effectiveness and performance.
• Experience assessing and communicating uncertainty and risk on capability and acquisition decisions.
• Experience producing or working with cost and schedule estimates and their methodologies.
• Experience in a strategic or operational military command, or a multinational organisation.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsabilités

• Course of action analysis using operations research methods in support of capability development.
• Planning and running research to establish qualitative and quantitative assessments of operational effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness analysis.
• Engaging research entities and industry to establish the impact of the alternatives.
• Supporting requests for information and surveys to nations, NGOs and industry.
• Analysing the impact of individual and aggregated risks and proposing how to manage them.
• Reviewing cost and schedule estimates produced by others for quality and supporting evidence.
• Documenting comparative assessments of cost, risk, schedule and effectiveness to inform programme decisions.
• Producing decision briefs that explain the rationale, and briefing decision-makers on them.
• Writing the analysis reports that form part of the capability programme evidence package.
• Travelling to meetings and conferences up to about sixty days a year.

Connaissances

Operations research

Cost-effectiveness analysis

Risk analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Data collection planning

Uncertainty communication

Cost estimation

Schedule estimation

Military experience

Formation

Bachelor degree in a quantitative field

Description du poste

Wlgroup is seeking a capable operations research professional for an international assignment relocation to the United States. You will lead analytical work supporting capability development and provide evidence packages for programme decisions.

Responsibilities include conducting action analyses, planning research, engaging with industry, and communicating uncertainties. Travel up to sixty days annually is expected. Fluent English is required.