Senior Operational Analyst — Defence Capability & Risk

Work Life Group; Konak; On-site; TRY 5,355,000 - 7,790,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in Norfolk, VA, invites applications for an Operational Analysis role supporting capability development in a multinational defence environment. The position requires leading OR studies, developing evidence packages and presenting analyses to decision-makers.

The role includes travel up to sixty days per year, engaging with research entities and industry, and delivering rigorous cost and schedule assessments while communicating uncertainty and risk in fluent professional English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in a quantitative field or five+ years leading operational analysis studies.
• 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.

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, 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.

Skills

Operations Research

Quantitative Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Stakeholder Facilitation

Problem Scoping

Data Collection Plans

Risk & Uncertainty

Cost & Schedule Estimation

Military Experience

English Fluency

Education

Bachelor degree in Operations Research/Math/CS/Physics/Engineering

Job description

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it — not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.

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.