About the job

Job summary

Within the APC, the Career Management Operations (CM Ops) Branch meet the needs of the Army in Defence by matching Suitably Qualified Experienced Personnel to Army posts. Within the Branch, the Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) team support the advertisement of, and management / onboarding of individuals selected for a pool of several thousand full time opportunities within the Army offered to Army Reservists or ex-members of the Regular Army. The FTRS Branch comprises 3 teams with differing roles, this role is within the Application team.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

Role Responsibilities:

· Manage applications for FTRS posts from receipt of application through to confirmation of selection for post.

· Receive applications via the SERVE post advertising platform and carry out initial staff checks on eligibility for FTRS, where appropriate assisting applicants to ensure that applications are correctly submitted.

· Liaise with and support applicants for FTRS, ensuring that where possible applications are converted into full time serving personnel.

· Ensure recording of all elements of the applicant and application process is maintained on the central Spreadsheets.

· Check and forward applications to the teams responsible for managing the selection of applicants.

· On notification of acceptance of a job offer from a Service person, carry out initial processing, including initiating Criminal Records Bureau and security clearance checks; prior to submitting to the FTRS In-Service Team for formalising of commitments.

Person specification

This role requires someone who can work at pace to meet important deadlines, while ensuring that policies and procedures are always followed. The post holder is required to engage with a wide range of stakeholders both within the APC and the wider Army. Over and above the core behaviours, the post holder will be pro-active, enjoy working in a busy section and be a reliable team player with good verbal and written communication and good organisational skills.

A solid understanding of Microsoft Office and Excel would be desirable.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £24,985, Ministry of Defence contributes £6,745 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.

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

CV:

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

Personal Statement:

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

• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Leadership
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

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

• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Leadership
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

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.