DescriptionDeadline Date: Tuesday 22 July 2025
Requirement: Senior Operational Analyst (Defence)
Location: Mons BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 760
Required Start Date: 1 September 2025
End Contract Date: 31 December 2025
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
Consultancy
- 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.
Specialist advice
- 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 organizational objectives.
- Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
Methods and tools
- 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.
Data modelling and design
- 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.
Data visualisation
- 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.
Additional duties for this post:
- 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
- Team & Task Leadership
- 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
- Technical Leadership in OA
- 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
RequirementsSkill Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC