Description
Knight Federal Solutions is a trusted provider to industry leading prime contractors, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. We have established a company culture that supports our employees, their families and the communities in which they live and work. When you join our team, you belong to a group of people that work hard, strive for greatness and care about people.
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As Knight Federal Solutions continues to grow, we look forward to hiring the best and the brightest to join us in our success!
We are seeking an Operation Research Analyst to join our growing team of diverse professionals. This position requires an active TOP SECRET/SCI clearance and will require travel as a member of various collection teams. This position supports the Joint Staff J7, Joint Force Development in assessing the integration of emerging concepts across the Joint Force to inform concept development and enhance the operational effectiveness of the current and future Joint Force.
The selected candidate will provide observation, training, and feedback, focused at the operational and strategic levels, to Joint Force Commanders and their staffs during joint and multi-national training, exercises, and staff assist visits (SAVs). The focus of the observation, assessment, and feedback will involve the integration of emerging concepts aimed at ensuring the Joint Force is able to deter malign activity, respond to crisis, and set conditions to prevail in conflict, applied across all domains and in a globally integrated manner, focused on the priority strategic threats identified in national strategic policy documents.
Responsibilities:
- Perform as a member of the Collection Analyst team.
- Conduct interviews, collect information, develop reports, and brief tailored analyses containing joint lessons in support of planning (real-world & training), concept implementation assessment, and execution (real-world operations).
- Deliver, track, and disseminate products to support the execution of resolution actions across the DOTMLPF (Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy) spectrum in support of Joint Force Development and Design, as well as Joint Concept implementation.
- Combine joint, interagency, and multinational experience, understanding of national strategy, knowledge of CCMD operations, attention to emerging concepts, and strategic thinking to assess concept implementation and operational effectiveness across the Joint Force.
- Develop methods and means to collect and analyze data in support of the production of a periodic assessment of the development, application, and effectiveness of identified Essential Elements (EE) of emerging concepts and apply them to exercise design, execution, and feedback.
- Identify assessment objectives, key tasks, and articulation of the desired end state, develop a detailed Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) and associated Measures of Performance (MOP) and Effectiveness (MOE) for both distributed and collective collection, analysis, and assessment on EEs associated with an event.
- Support development of a comprehensive concept implementation Assessment Plan and identify measures of effectiveness.
- Conduct concept implementation assessment and deliver tailored analysis and assessment in both report and presentation formats. Tailored reports and/or presentations will be delivered for each designated event (~6/year) plus biannual assessment surveys.
- Participate in the Assessment Matrix Team (AMT) and OPG-led meetings and engage directly with relevant stakeholders and AMT leadership to better understand the scope of the assessment concept and to identify and recommend collection opportunities and plans.
- Monitor the development, application, and effectiveness of EE design, measurement, and resolution and develop assessment of issues related to EEs that require decisions at the operational and strategic level.
Basic Qualifications
- One of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 20 years of professional and/or military leadership experience or
- Master’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of professional and/or military leadership experience.
- Will handle TOP SECRET/SCI classified documents for the US government. Must have an active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret security clearance.
- Thorough understanding of national strategy, policy, and decision-making.
- Experience in joint and multinational operations and/or exercises.
- Executive-level analysis, assessment, and writing skills.
- Must be willing and able to travel worldwide as needed (up to 30% of the time), to include areas considered hazardous duty.
- Must be able to work on-site in Suffolk, Virginia.
- Microsoft Identity & Access Management Configuration experience.
- Familiarity with Group Policy Object Management.
- Working knowledge of Certificate/CA/PKI Infrastructure.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Combatant Command, Joint Task Force, Division, Afloat staff, or Wing staff experience.
- Experience with the preparation and conduct of seminars or study groups for flag officers.
- Experience in the compilation and presentation in both written and oral formats of lessons learned and after-action review material.
- Experience with operational planning efforts at the operational and strategic level.
- At least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics.
- Understanding of the Joint Planning Process (JPP).
- Joint Forces Staff College or Service equivalent.
Knight Federal Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other protected classification.
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