Design Specialist (Wargaming)

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 Defence to make better decisions, faster and with greater confidence.

Responsibilities

• Support wargaming task project leads (PL) as a wargaming task designer/lead designer; and/or wargaming task analyst/lead analyst
• Support wargaming task PLs as an Assistant Project Manager as required
• Support wargaming business development as required
• As a Wargame Designer: design and develop wargames
• Oversee playtesting, iterative testing and refinement
• Develop scenarios and design wargame mechanics and systems
• Oversee event management
• Expected 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; business case development

Qualifications

• Knowledge of UK Defence 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 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
• 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

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. 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 Client and is now being further developed to become the Defence standard.