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

Wlgroup; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown company seeks an experienced specialist to perform operations research-driven analysis for capability development in a multinational defence context, including traveling up to ~60 days/year for meetings and conferences. Visa relocation to Norfolk, USA with NATO-5 visa is provided.

Responsibilities include conducting course of action analyses, planning assessments, engaging with research entities and industry, and documenting evidence packages for programme decisions.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Two examples in the last ten years, three years combined, of military operations research or operational analysis.
• Experience designing 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.

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 methods

Stakeholder sessions

Cost and schedule estimates

Military operations knowledge

English fluency

Education

Bachelor degree in quantitative field

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.