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

Wlgroup; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 96,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational defence organisation is seeking an experienced operational researcher to lead course of action analyses, assess capability options, and interface with research entities and industry.

The role involves planning studies, handling cost and schedule estimates, documenting evidence, and briefing decision-makers. Travel up to sixty days per year; relocation to Norfolk, USA with NATO-5 visa.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or 5+ years leading operational analysis studies.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Perform course of action analysis using operations research methods.
• Plan and run research to establish qualitative and quantitative assessments of operational effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness analysis.
• Engage research entities and industry to establish the impact of the alternatives.
• Support requests for information and surveys to nations, NGOs and industry.
• Analyse the impact of individual and aggregated risks and proposing how to manage them.
• Review cost and schedule estimates produced by others for quality and supporting evidence.
• Document 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.

Skills

Operations research

Data analysis

Risk management

Stakeholder facilitation

Cost & schedule estimation

Military OA experience

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor degree in quantitative field or 5+ years leading OA studies

Job description

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.