C004310 Senior Operational Analyst (Defence)

• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
  
• Identifies, evaluates and recommends options.
  
• Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements.
  
• Seeks to fully address client needs and implements solutions if required.
  
• Enhances the capabilities and effectiveness of clients, by ensuring that proposed solutions are fully understood and appropriately exploited.
  
• Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area.
  
• Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
  
• Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others.
  
• Consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives.
  
• Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation. 
  
• Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
  
• Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
  
• Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.
  
• Investigates enterprise data requirements where there is some complexity and ambiguity.
  
• Plans own data modelling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and the correct level of detail for meeting assigned objectives.
  
• Provides advice and guidance to others using the data structures and associated components.
  
• Applies a variety of visualisation techniques and designs the content and appearance of data visuals.
  
• Operationalises and automates activities for efficient and timely production of data visuals.
  
• Selects appropriate visualisation approaches from a range of applicable options.
  
•  Contributes to exploration and experimentation in data visualisation.
  
• Collaborating with other departments to address quality issues
  
• Ensuring the processes produce their intended result
  
• Providing inputs to annual quality plans
  
• Developing and implementing quality assurance and quality control procedures
  
• Co-ordinate work with related activities inside and outside of the Agency Acknowledged as a recognised expert and advisor to customers on OA services and support
  
• Acknowledged as a recognised expert, and customer advisor, related to a particular OA technique or domain
  
• Give scientific briefings and presentations; write and/or review scientific papers and articles for publication
  
• Represent the Agency, as directed, in NATO-related events, E.g. working groups and panels, seminars, workshops
  

Requirements

• Analysis of military capabilities, including knowledge and recent expertise in at least one of the military components/domains;
  
• Analysis of modern military problems in a range of areas, e.g. determining requirements and capabilities for military operations at strategic and operational levels, analysis of C2 (command and control) or organizational structures;
  
• Application of Operations Research / Analysis techniques (such as structured problem analysis, statistical analysis, simulation and optimisation);
  
• Development of Operations Research / Analysis supporting models and tools, staff decision aids, databases, data collection and/or survey tools;
  
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with military staff