About the job

Job summary

Air Command is the Headquarters for the Royal Air Force, and the Career Management directorate is responsible for apportioning workforce to fill job roles, ensure appropriate conditions of service and balance business need with personal aspirations where possible. CM Charter Career Management sits within the Director People AOR. 

The role of the Administrative Support is to assist the Career Managers in the delivery of Career Management. The workforce is made up of a range of military ranks, and Civil Servants. 

Where business needs allow, some home-based working will be supported. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required reasonable adjustments.

The position is advertised at 37 hours a week. However, part time would be considered in line with business needs.

Job description

The role of Administrative Support is responsible for:

• Operate JPA effectively
• Liaise with A1 Ops where required in relation to DWRs and Out of Area assignments, notably checking with A1 Ops information is maintained and actioned correctly
• Manipulate data for Career Managers for relevant competency trawls
• Manage Report tracker
• Conduct basic checks of all information when received
• Assist relevant Career Managers ahead of promotion boards where required 
• Work with STANEVAL and highlight any issues where necessary
• Answer queries where appropriate
• Order stationary and support the team as a Super User 

Person specification

Experience of Outlook, Excel and other Microsoft applications

Proactive attitude to tasks

Organised and good timekeeping

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £24,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £6,490 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application and Sift:

• Personal Statement of 250 words
• 3 behaviours: Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace, Working Together - answered in STAR format

Interview:

• 3 behaviours: Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace, Working Together - answered in STAR format

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.