Sr. Operations Research Analyst

Position is 100% Onsite

Who We Are : Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

SimIS is currently recruiting for the listed position and is contingent upon award. The position is anticipated to be “on site.”

Job Description:

SimIS is seeking contract support for the capture, development, architecture, data science and quality assurance of capability requirements and operational analysis necessary to adapt to future threats and explore long-term military strategy to shape how forces will operate in the future. To support our customer, SimIS, Inc. seeks a Senior Operations Research Analyst to enable capability development programme teams to drive and support evidence-based decision making in requirements derivation and programmatic planning. Analysts must be capable of combining quantitative and qualitative evidence and facilitating stakeholder engagement to support defensible decision-making.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or equivalent quantitative degree.

• Candidate’s resume must cite two specific examples within the last 5-10 demonstrating experience in military Operations Research / Operational Analysis / Data Science, supporting policy development, capability development or acquisition.

• 5-10 years of experience designing, leading, and facilitating structured stakeholder engagements to elicit objectives, assumptions, measures, risks, preferences and expert judgement in support of defence capability decisions involving technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple levels of seniority.

• 5-10 years of experience determining research requirements, scoping problems for study, developing analysis plans, and delivering high-quality outputs that influence senior decision makers.

• 5-10 years of experience of developing data collection and analysis plans or assessment frameworks that include measures of effectiveness and measures of performance.

• Experience in gathering evidence and scoring effectiveness through use of operations research and analysis methods to defence domain issues.

• Experience identifying, eliciting, assessing, analysing and communicating uncertainty and risk associated with capability / acquisition, project, programme, or portfolio decisions.

• Experience of producing or working with cost and schedule estimates, including estimating methodologies, methods and processes

• Experience working in a strategic or operational military command or multinational organization.

• Experience supporting project, programme, and / or portfolio decisions through analytical assessment in the past 10 years, within complex and dynamic programme environments.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Course of Action analysis using Operations Research and Analysis methods in support of Capability Development within ACT in order to mature capability requirements and set programmatic direction.

• Plan and conduct research to study and establish qualitative and quantitative assessments of operational effectiveness, undertake cost-effectiveness and risk-benefit studies and analyses.

• Where necessary and appropriate, interact with National research entities and industries to establish the impact of alternatives on operational effectiveness.

• Where necessary and appropriate, attend engagements or workshops with National organizations, and / or industry to ensure cost estimation activities are likely to provide outputs of appropriate quality to support analysis.

• Support the creation of Requests for Information and surveys to NATO Nations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and industry.

• Impact of identified individual and aggregated risks and propose possible risk management approaches.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision

• Short-Term Disability (at no cost to you) & Long-Term Disability

• Life Insurance

• 401(k) Savings Plan

• Flex Spending Accounts

• Tuition Assistance Program

• Professional Development

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• 11 Federal Holidays each year

SimIS, Inc. is an EOE / M / F / Disability / VET / Drug Free Employer

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