Warfighting Analyst, Junior

About the Role

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking Junior Wargaming Analysts to join their simulation, analysis, gaming, and experimentation team. The role involves leveraging backgrounds in wargaming, campaign analysis, or defense research to address defense and intelligence challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, prepare, and conduct defense and military analysis for Department of War and Intelligence Community clients.
• Conduct general research to support warfighting disciplines, COA analysis, strategy development, and organizational processes or procedures.
• Contribute to the design, execution, and delivery of analytic tasks associated with wargames, simulations, and tabletop exercises.
• Shape objectives, craft wargaming constructs, author scenarios, facilitate participant discussions, and author after-action reports and briefings.
• Learn material quickly and exhibit creativity and independent thought in design, analysis, and experimentation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with military analysis and wargaming or supporting and conducting formal research.
• Ability to learn and apply new methods as required by analysis.
• Ability to exhibit a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing wargames or analytic studies to answer specific research questions.
• Experience with geospatial visualization tools, including ArcGIS or QGIS.
• Experience with commercial or hobby wargaming, including manual board games.
• Experience with data science, operations research, or modeling and simulation tools and methods.
• Experience with military weapon systems and characteristics.
• Ability to manage events, facilitate team discussions and meetings, and present project results and findings to client audiences.
• Secret clearance.
• Master's degree.

Compensation

• Projected compensation range: $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD).