Overview:
SPA provides senior decision makers within the Australian Defence Force and the Royal Australian Navy with timely and objective assessments affecting their maritime capability employment and investment strategies. The primary focus is providing operational analysis, technical analysis and program management support at the program and project level, including client site support in Canberra, Australia. Our team of experienced military professionals and operations research analysts integrate naval warfare expertise with advanced analytic methods - including force generation modelling, agent-based tactical simulations, and operational mission analyses - to develop and deliver products that evaluate current and planned capabilities to inform capability options to redress capacity and capability gaps.#MC
Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for 1) Developing innovative concepts of operations and capability plans, and for translating them into detailed written and graphical descriptions to support tactical, operational, and strategic analysis, 2) Providing specialist program support and contributing to specialist capability modelling and analysis to inform maritime capabilities across the One Defence Capability Lifecycle, 3) Supporting and leading the development and employment of modelling and simulation analysis tools and briefing government decision makers at all levels.
Qualifications:
Systems Planning and Analysis Australia Pty Ltd (SPA) has a near-term need for an experienced Maritime Warfare Officer to support a range of Maritime Domain programs and projects as a Military Operations Analyst.
SPA provides senior decision makers within the Australian Defence Force and the Royal Australian Navy with timely and objective assessments affecting their maritime capability employment and investment strategies. The primary focus is providing operational analysis, technical analysis and program management support at the program and project level, including client site support in Canberra, Australia. Our team of experienced military professionals and operations research analysts integrate naval warfare expertise with advanced analytic methods - including force generation modelling, agent-based tactical simulations, and operational mission analyses - to develop and deliver products that evaluate current and planned capabilities to inform capability options to redress capacity and capability gaps.#MC
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for 1) Developing innovative concepts of operations and capability plans, and for translating them into detailed written and graphical descriptions to support tactical, operational, and strategic analysis, 2) Providing specialist program support and contributing to specialist capability modelling and analysis to inform maritime capabilities across the One Defence Capability Lifecycle, 3) Supporting and leading the development and employment of modelling and simulation analysis tools and briefing government decision makers at all levels.
Required Qualifications:
- NV1 (Secret) security clearance or higher, or the ability to attain and hold a NV1 clearance
- 5-10 years of operational maritime warfare experience
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM); may substitute a non-technical degree with demonstrated technical acumen, e.g. successful completion of Capability Technology Management Program, or similar
Desired Qualifications:
- Principal Warfare Officer qualification
- Experience in more than one of the following areas: Surface Warfare, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Strike Warfare, Mine Warfare, Amphibious Warfare, or Aviation Warfare
- Demonstrated ability in applying innovative concepts, quantitative tools, and creative data visualisation methods to address Naval issues, and briefing the results to executive level (Flag/SES) leaders
- Experience in Defence capability development and management, including requirements definition, capability definition document generation, modelling and simulation, or operations research
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