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Operational Research and Analysis Expert

4 months ago

Virginia Beach, United States Spektrum Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO's leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction, and practical cooperation with partners, nations, and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training, and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction, and co-ordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues associated with the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff, and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) in support of the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents in support of NATO's strategic objectives.

Background Information

Following the NATO Madrid Summit in June 2022, the NATO Heads of State have agreed on a substantial increase in the level of funding available to deliver NATO Alliance-level capability change programmes. This funding increase ramps up from 2023-2030 and necessitates changes to NATO's capability delivery model to achieve the ambition set out by the Nations.

NATO capability delivery programmes cover a variety of areas, such as Communications and Information Systems (CIS, e.g. operational Command and Control (C2) information systems), infrastructure investment to support military readiness and alliance-funded platform acquisition.

ACT and ACO are working with NATO Headquarters and delivery Agencies to improve the efficiency of NATO's capability delivery model, and are preparing to increase the speed and volume of capability delivery. ACT will increase the number and variety of supporting analysis studies (including Course of Action (COA) analysis and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)) carried out to match the increased scope of capability delivery.

The Operational Analysis Branch provides analysts to programme teams to drive and support evidence-based decision-making in requirements derivation and programmatic planning. In this SOW, "Operational Analysis" (predominantly military term) is used interchangeably with "Operations Research" (US term) and "Operational Research" (UK term).

COA analysis supports capability development programme teams to determine appropriate DOTMLPFI methods and capability architectures for meeting the military user's operational requirements and defining programmatic structures. AoA supports programme teams in determining appropriate acquisition strategies and demonstrates to NATO's governance bodies that programme plans are structured to deliver value for money.

COA analysis typically involves engaging with the programme team to understand programmatic areas of uncertainty, designing and facilitating workshops to gather stakeholder views (including within the military NATO Command Structure, delivery Agencies and Centres of Excellence, and/or the NATO Force Structure), gathering or generating (if appropriate) cost, risk, schedule, and effectiveness evidence, and comparative options assessment. This may include the development or elicitation of Measures of Performance (MoPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MoEs); assessment of absolute and comparative risks; elicitation of schedule estimates; and review of cost estimates for appropriateness to support this assessment.

Analysis of Alternatives similarly involves the comparative assessment of options in terms of costs, risks, schedules, and operational effectiveness. The AoA tests the commercial marketplace and NATO's ability to re-use capabilities that are in service in member Nations' militaries. It establishes whether NATO should procure a managed service, adopt National capability solutions, acquire products from industry, or develop bespoke solutions. For complex programmes, the AoA can inform programmatic structures by showing how value for money is most likely to be achieved.

Responsibilities
  1. Contribute to COA analysis using Operations Research and Analysis techniques, in support of Capability Development within ACT to mature NATO capability requirements and set programmatic direction.
  2. Research to study and establish qualitative and quantitative assessments of operational effectiveness, undertake cost-effectiveness and risk-benefit studies and analyses.
  3. Where appropriate, interact with appropriate NATO and National research entities and industries to establish the impact of alternatives on operational effectiveness.
  4. Where appropriate, attend engagements with NATO, National organizations, and/or industry to ensure cost estimation activities are likely to provide outputs of appropriate quality to support analysis.
  5. Support the creation of Requests for Information to NATO Nations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and
  6. Analyse the potential impact of identified individual and aggregated risks, and propose possible risk management
  7. Elicit, and/or review and assess schedule estimates, to ensure appropriate quality and supporting evidence for decisions being supported by analysis.
  8. Review and assess cost estimates provided by others, to ensure appropriate quality and supporting evidence for decisions being supported by analysis.
  9. Analyse and document comparative assessments of cost, risk, schedule, and operational effectiveness to inform programmatic decision-making.
  10. Produce decision briefs/presentations describing the underlying rationale/justification for analytical outcomes. If appropriate, brief decision-makers on the context, process, and outcomes.
  11. Produce written reports of analysis conducted as part of the CPP evidence package, for review with the International Military Staff and International Staff in NATO Headquarters.
  12. Produce summary briefs of lessons identified / lessons learned to support continuous improvement of NATO capability development and OA Branch skills and competencies.
  13. May be required to travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO's boundaries for up to 35 days per
  14. Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the LABOR
Essential Qualifications
  1. Minimum two examples in the last 10 years (minimum 3 years duration) in the field of military Operations Research / Operational Analysis / Systems Analysis, supporting policy development, capability development, or With a relevant Bachelor's degree (listed below), only 2 years in the last 5 must be in the fields/areas listed above.
  2. Experience in designing, leading and facilitating workshops involving technical and non-technical stakeholders and across multiple levels of seniority.
  3. Experience, within the last 5 years, of determining Operational Analysis requirements, scoping problems for study, developing analysis plans, and delivering high-quality outputs that influence senior decision-makers.
  4. Experience with assessment frameworks, including setting MoPs and MoEs, setting service delivery KPIs, or analysis supporting programmatic benefits management and planning.
  5. Experience in gathering evidence and scoring effectiveness through the use of analytical methods to defence domain issues. Methods may include soft systems methods and elicitation of subjective evidence, war gaming, computer modelling and simulation, mathematical modelling, optimization techniques, and process mapping.
  6. Experience in risk identification, assessment, analysis, and management in a project and /or programme planning
  7. Experience in producing or working with cost estimates, including cost-estimating methodologies, methods, and
  8. Experience within the last 10 years working in a strategic or operational military command or multinational

Education

  • A University or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering or equivalent quantitative degree, or a subject with focus on organizational or group decision-making. Alternatively, 5+ years of Operational Analysis / Operations Research experience conducting and leading analytical studies in a relevant military, strategic, political or international environment.

Working Location

  • Norfolk, VA, USA

Working Policy

  • Onsite

Security Clearance

  • Valid National or NATO personal security clearance

Language

  • Professional English

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