Senior Operational Analyst — Course of Action and Cost Effectiveness for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Eigenbrakel; Sur place; EUR 78 000 - 122 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Wlgroup seeks an experienced Operational Analysis professional to support capability development for a multinational defence programme. You will conduct course of action analyses, plan studies, and collaborate with research entities and industry to quantify effectiveness and risk. Fluent English required; NATO-5 visa relocation to Norfolk, USA provided.

The role involves designing analyses, compiling evidence, and briefing decision-makers. Occasional travel up to sixty days yearly is anticipated.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in operations research, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or equivalent quantitative subject.
• Five+ years leading operational analysis studies.

Responsabilités

• Perform course of action analysis using operations research methods for capability development.
• Plan and run research to assess qualitative and quantitative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
• Engage research entities and industry to evaluate impact of alternatives.
• Support information requests from nations, NGOs and industry.
• Analyze risks and propose risk management approaches.
• Review cost and schedule estimates for quality and supporting evidence.
• Document comparative assessments to inform programme decisions.
• Produce decision briefs and brief decision-makers.
• Write analysis reports forming part of the capability programme evidence package.
• Travel to meetings and conferences up to ~60 days per year.

Connaissances

Operations research

Stakeholder facilitation

Risk analysis

Cost and schedule estimation

Data collection planning

Formation

Bachelor degree in quantitative field

Five+ years leading operational analysis

Description du poste

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation decides between capability options worth a great deal of money. This role runs the operational analysis behind those decisions: the assessments, the comparisons and the evidence package that goes with them.

What you would be doing

• 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, non-governmental organisations 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.

What you would bring

• A bachelor degree in operations research, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or an equivalent quantitative subject — or five or more years leading operational analysis studies.
• At least two examples in the last ten years, three years combined, of military operations research or operational analysis.
• Experience designing and facilitating structured stakeholder sessions to draw out objectives, assumptions, measures and risks.
• Recent 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.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.