Senior Operational Analyst - Capability & Risk Analysis Lead

WLG; Konak; On-site; TRY 5,842,000 - 7,303,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG seeks an experienced operations research professional to lead the operational analysis behind defence capability development, based in Norfolk, VA with relocation support.

You will perform course of action analyses, plan research to assess operational effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and engage with research entities and industry to evaluate alternatives. Travel up to sixty days per year; fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in operations research, mathematics, CS, physics, engineering or equivalent quantitative subject.
• Five+ years leading operational analysis studies.
• 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.
• Experience 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 multinational organisation.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Operations research

Stakeholder facilitation

Risk analysis

Data analysis planning

Cost and schedule estimation

Communication of uncertainty

Brief drafting

Education

Bachelor degree in operations research or quantitative field

Job description

WLG seeks an experienced operations research professional to lead the operational analysis behind defence capability development, based in Norfolk, VA with relocation support.

You will perform course of action analyses, plan research to assess operational effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and engage with research entities and industry to evaluate alternatives. Travel up to sixty days per year; fluent English required.