Job Description

Job Title: Junior Needs Analysis and Research Consultant

Location: Ottawa, ON

Remote: Yes

Business Unit: Advanced Technologies

Department 1: Engineering

Department 2: Defence

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Calian is seeking a Junior Needs Analysis and Research Consultant to assist our client with the facilitation of their project.

Responsibilities

• Deliver analytical and scientific research support across CA and joint domains.
• Prepare research inputs for exercises, experiments, doctrine development, academic courses, and strategic documents.
• Identify, prioritize, and scope research topics based on operational needs and emerging trends.
• Evaluate alternative options and assess associated issues, risks, and impacts.
• Offer recommendations and solutions to address identified gaps or shortcomings.
• Define performance metrics and ensure data collection supports valid and reliable analysis aligned with operational goals.
• Analyze data against defined metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives or capabilities.
• Conduct workflow and technological impact assessments to support capability integration.
• Develop and implement policies, processes, and procedures for systematic data collection and analysis.
• Conduct domain-specific studies in areas such as: Military operations, Wargaming, Interoperability and integration, Tactical data links, Data fusion and situational awareness, Information and knowledge management
• Design human systems integration (HSI) plans and strategies to support system and capability analysis programs.
• Perform mission, function, and task analyses to inform system design and operational effectiveness.
• Assess the implications of alternative system/capability designs on personnel, training, and safety.
• Advise on applications of analyses involving emerging command and control (C2), C4ISR, and related technologies and concepts.
• Deliver briefings to stakeholders, including senior military personnel and external visitors, on research findings and ongoing activities.
• Design and evaluate user-centered studies using constructive, virtual, and live simulations to test system and capability performance; and
• Identify and define tools that enhance the operational execution and utility of future (“to[1]be”) architectural designs.

Qualifications

• Must have a post-secondary degree from a Canadian University or College
• Must have 2 years of experience, within the last 5 years conducting research or providing written analysis assessments that contributed to the evaluation, understanding or enhancement of military activities
• Must have 2 years of experience, within the last 5 years, creating and maintaining data collection plans

Additional Requirements

• Must have or be eligible to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level

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