About the job

Job summary

The primary role of the Field Army is to train, prepare and deploy soldiers for deployment on current and contingent operations.  The potential offered by new and emerging digital technologies to improve chances of success on operations, by making forces more capable and to drive greater efficiency into the way that we prepare, select and deploy forces is ‘game changing’.   The primary role of the Field Army Productivity Pillar, is to drive, cohere and co-ordinate the Digital Transformation of the Field Army to ensure that we retain competitive advantage over our adversaries.  This is now one of Field Army’s highest priorities change programmes. As the Programme Management Officer (PMO) in this Pillar, you will play a key role in managing a wide portfolio of digital transformation programmes, projects and initiatives to deliver step changes in military capability and efficiency.  You will be part of a diverse team of soldiers, civil servants, and civilian contractors who are all dedicated and focussed on delivering this vital transformation programme of work. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The PMO will manage a small team of direct report and directly support the Programme Manager in the delivery of a discrete Programme of digital transformation work and in the coherence and coordination of the wider portfolio of all Field Army digitisation.

The outputs that the PMO will deliver are:

• Budget management (circa £15MpA)
• Benefits management
• Risk and issue management
• Information management
• Communications delivery
• The co-ordination of wider Pillar solution development and business change activity

Person specification

The PMO will have previous experience of working in a Programme Management field and they will have a formal Programme Manager qualification at Practitioner level.  It is desirable that they also have experience of working in a SCRUM or Agile Project Management role. 

They will be a motivated person, who can manage a busy workload and deliver outputs on time with little guidance.  They will be effective communicators who have had previous experience in, and a track record of success with budget management and will be adept at formal management of risk, using processes such as those described in Axelos Management of Risk (MoR), or a similar industry best-practice standard.   

A key aspect of the role will be the management of benefits which will include the: identification; quantification; valuation and appraisal of benefits, as well as planning of benefits realisation.  This will include the development of the Benefits Map and Benefits Realisation Plan.  They will have access to industry best-practice software to support them in this process.  This is a key aspect of the role and therefore a benefits management qualification and previous experience of managing benefits is essential.  Previous experience of using the WOVEX benefits management system is desirable.

The PMO will have a small number of direct reports, including Communications, where they will be responsible for the oversight of the Pillar Communications execution.  Previous leadership, management and communications planning experience is therefore desirable.

Hybrid working is permissible in this post.  The expectation is that successful candidate will be in Andover 3 days per week.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 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.

Applicants are to provide a CV and personal statement (500 words) outlining job history and experience of Programme, budget, risk and benefits management.  At application you will be assessed against the CV and personal statement. 

At interview, you will be assessed against CV, Personal Statement and the following Success Profiles Behaviours/Technical Skills:

• Delivering At Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing A Quality Service

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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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.