About the job

Job summary

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a high-quality management and business information service. This will support the data reporting and analytical tasks that drive RAF Recruitment and Selection’s (R&S’s) operations and provide the statistical elements that underpin reports and returns.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

 The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

-   The prioritisation and management the data/analytics tasks being submitted to HQ R&S, checking that the requests are valid and appropriately worded to enable the data analytics personnel to easily understand the task so that minimal time is wasted by the data team in getting the correct data/answer.

-   If additional information from R&S outside of the data team is required to answer the question, then ensuring the relevant teams have been tasked with providing this response is included within your remit.

-   Close engagement with the Policy team to support the provision of data for Parliamentary Questions (PQs), Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs), Requests for Information (RFIs), Subject Access Requests (SARs) and any other requests.

-   Monitoring the People Analytics & Data Requests Front Door app for R&S submissions and taking appropriate action to ensure a timely response.

-   Managing a DISMA Analytics Task Tracker to ensure oversight of the tasks received and ensuring timely delivery of outputs to meet deadlines.

-   Managing training requirements for the whole DISMA team – identifying training requirements, delivery options and funding.

-   Developing your data analytic skills to enable you to answer questions from existing reports.

-   Supporting the DISMA Team with testing of new functionality and/or bugs/issue fixes as required.

-   Support to the Armed Forces Recruiting Programme to facilitate a seamless transition from legacy systems to any new IT system for go-live in April 2027 (TBC). Exact details of these tasks will become clearer as we approach the AFRP go-live date.

Full training and mentorship will be provided to ensure you are able to perform the role with competency.

Person specification

The successful applicant will self-motivated, able to work on their own against tight deadlines, as well as being part of a small team. They will be an experienced and capable Microsoft Excel user, able to extract relevant data from multiple sources, and combine data into a single report that answers a specific question. They should also be able to provide additional comments that support the data extract to enable easy understanding of the data provided.

This position is also dependent upon the applicant's achievement of Security Check (SC) clearance.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 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.

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

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

At Interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

Advertisement will be open for application until 28 May 2024. 

Stage 1: A sift of applicants will be conducted and those suitable for the role will be moved to stage 2. 

Stage 2: All successful applicants will be interviewed via MS Teams. 

At both sift and interview you will be assessed against the Success Profiles Behaviours.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability (250 words).

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 undergo a criminal record check. 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

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.