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Wargaming Designer Specialist
Job Posted: 16 hours ago
Salary: £ 45,000 - 65,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol, City of Bristol
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Role: Wargaming Analyst / Designer
Location: Frimley, Preston, Bristol, or London - Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
Role Type: Permanent /Full-time
Salary: Depending on experience
Role Overview:
Our wargaming covers a spectrum of academic research-informed decision support activity from facilitated discussion, through TTX to adversarial wargame. Our work is primarily in support of the Defense Experimentation and Wargaming Hub. We enable UK Defense to make better decisions, faster and with greater confidence.
We are seeking three Wargaming Designers with increasing experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will have
* Knowledge of UK Defense in general and understanding of how a military headquarters operates through the various staff branches gained through an SO3/SO2 or similar appointment.
* Understanding of ConDev, CapDev and WarDev, and the role of Operational Analysis and Wargaming within those staff branches.
* Experience of routinely and appropriately applying mission command and the CAKE principles of battle procedure to activity in any context.
* Experience in dealing with clients/customers from a consulting perspective will be well regarded.
* Experience of wargaming to support geo-political and non-kinetic/violent scenarios will be well-regarded.
You will be a ‘doer’ who is adaptable and who thrives in a dynamic environment, while being focused and methodical yet creative —a systems thinker able to challenge and to support a view. You will be self-assured and self-confident (but not arrogant), consultative and collaborative. You should have formal training in research and analysis, gained through M or PhD level academic studies, or military intelligence professional military education, or demonstrable equally methodical and rigorous training.
Naturally, the successful candidate will be fully inducted into our ways of working, notably the Analysis-Led Wargaming Framework and its supporting tools and methods. This was originated by CORDA and is now being further developed to become the Defense standard
Role Purpose:
* To support wargaming task project leads (PL) as a wargaming task designer/lead designer; and/or wargaming task analyst/lead analyst
* To support wargaming task PLs as an Assistant Project Manager as required.
* To support wargaming business development as required
As a Wargame Designer you will:
* Design and develop Wargames
* Oversee playtesting, Iterative Testing and Refinement
* Develop scenarios and design wargame Mechanics and Systems
* Oversee event management.
You can expect to be involved in other projects in customer-facing teams depending upon your research and analysis skill set:
* Operational Research & Analysis.
* Computational Modelling & Simulation.
* Data Insights & Dashboards.
* Social Science Research.
* Concept & Capability Assessment.
* Process & Value Stream Mapping.
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