About the job

Job summary

Have you ever considered working in an exciting, inclusive engineering training environment? Do you have the desire and ability to work within a professional team that offers access to the best learning and development programmes, outstanding rewards and in house extras such as free gym use and flexible working.  If so, there are multiple opportunities arising in MOD Lyneham which are the result of a unit move from St Athan. This will enhance the support to the development of our trainees and local community.

One of DCTT’s School’s, The Defence School of Electronic & Mechanical Engineering (DSEME), is a ‘whole-force’ mix of Military, Civil Service and Contractor personnel, who play a key role in delivering world-class technical training to a broad audience of soldiers and aviators across a variety of engineering disciplines ensuring the RAF and Army’s operational effectiveness. As an administrator in the J1 department, you are assisting and supporting the training staff  to ensure trainees get the best administrative support whilst undergoing training.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. 

Job description

As the E1 in the J1 department, you will be responsible for assisting the Regimental Accountant and Financial Systems administrator. You will be trained on the requisite courses to be able to provide cover in times of absence.  You will also act as an assistant to the Staff Support Assistant dealing with the coordination of paperwork for discipline cases.  DSEME and 8 Training Battalion deal with more cases of discipline than any other unit within the AOR (Area of Responsibility). More specifically you will :

• Cover for the RA, FSA and SSA in times of absence. Provide support to the FSA and RA when required.
• Filing and archiving of all receipt and payment vouchers.
• Assist and support the SSA on all discipline cases within the Battalion.
• Attend all JPA courses and finance courses to be able to provide support.
• Acting as an adviser to unit staffs on all JPA queries pertaining to non public funds and discipline.
• Custody, receipt and disbursement of all duplicate keys.  Maintain a key register and ensure the keys are rotated at least annually.
• Act as deputy cashier to cover leave and sickness, handover procedures are to be followed.  When acting as deputy cashier being responsible for custody, receipt and disbursement of cash.

Person specification

The successful applicant should be prepared to attend courses at Worthy Down.

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.

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

The following four behaviours would be assessed at both Application and Interview stage:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

Sift and interviews will take place at MOD Lyneham the week commencing on 4 Dec 23 (tentatively).

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

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Working for the Civil Service

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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.