CONTRACTOR SUPPORT TO REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       A University Degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, programme and project management or related disciplines

·       Five years’ experience in the last 10 in the field of requirements engineering and/or requirements management to include elicitation, capture, development, analysis and evaluation of requirements, including the management of requirements traceability, quality and change management

·       Experience in the evaluation of requirements traceability across comprehensive lines of development; i.e. doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities, and interoperability (DOTMLPFI)

·       Experience in requirements development, either as a hands-on requirements author and/or facilitator of requirements development sessions

·       Nationality of one of the NATO Countries

·       Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last 5 years) experience in managing requirements in accordance with formal configuration and change management processes

·       Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last 5 years) experience working in support of processes that were formally certified in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard

·       Experience with IBM Rational DOORS Next or equivalent

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       Provide quality analysis and expertise in support of HQ SACT’s CAPDEV processes and outputs, and specifically in support of CAPDEV Common Funded Capability Delivery programmes, programme directors and requirements managers undertaking the Identification, elicitation, capture, analysis, evaluation, integration and maintenance of high-quality capability (business) requirements

·       Manage corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) identified during process assurance and quality reviews: facilitate adjudication of recommendations, work closely with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution and maintain alignment between CAPA and program risk management and lessons learned processes

·       Support data quality assurance including maintenance of requirements in the requirements repository, and program information in the program management tools ensuring correct version and configuration control, and the achievement and maintenance of the organization’s traceability and quality expectations

·       Support the development and maintenance of processes relating to requirements traceability, including traceability criteria, and requirements traceability quality reports related to the capability development and requirements management  life cycle

·       Produce scheduled and ad-hoc independent quality assurance reports to inform program directors, IPT, core team members and other stakeholders including leadership

·       Contribute to the development of directives and standard operating procedures that relate to quality, requirements traceability and the ACT Requirements Repository

·       Support requirements engineering and requirements management activities where appropriate across all life cycle stages to ensure continuing integrity of the traceability processes, and that capability requirements continue to satisfy stakeholder needs

·       Contributes to organizational continual process improvement activities

·       Participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above

·       Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization

·       Support to change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle

·       Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labour category