About the job

Job summary

Have you considered a Civil Service career and the unparalleled opportunities it has to offer in a variety of significant roles, with the potential to change the nation and people’s lives for the better? This job role is based in Catterick with the possibility of travelling to the north of England and Scotland  The Army’s Basing and infrastructure Directorate brings (B&I) together all the key change programmes to ensure they are delivered to performance, cost and time. As a Directorate, we are committed to Project, Programme & Portfolio management (P3M) and delivery. In addition DB&I plans and leads the built environment for the British Army to live, work and train. This is a key foundation for the UK’s military’s capability. Every new project brings outstanding possibilities and challenges, and we’ll ensure you’re equipped to succeed, with extensive training and development opportunities.

The Directorate consists of Civil Servants, military colleagues and contractors working closely to deliver the Army’s Modernisation Agenda.  This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Project Delivery Individual to join us and lead the delivery of several Strategic Programmes in the Army's Portfolio.

These Programmes deliver change in, infrastructure, and business change. Developing Programme and Project Management skills, knowledge and expertise in a challenging yet encouraging environment.

As Requirements Managers (RM) the successful candidates will be responsible for managing the Army’s Infrastructure Requirements from Concept, through Delivery, to Completion via the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) supply chain.

Working with the Military User and DIO project staff, you will be at the heart of the Requirement setting, supportive document production and the delivery of benefits of the Infrastructure Change Programmes on handover to the military user.

Director Programmes manages Project Delivery staff on a flexible basis to ensure programmes have the talent required to deliver outputs and maximise opportunities in support of skills development and wider career pathways. In common with all Programmes Directorate staff, the post holder may be redeployed flexibly within the portfolio as priorities change and programmes begin and end.

Person specification

Main responsibilities include:

1. Acting as the lead throughout the whole life cycle, ensuring the requirement is captured and providing feedback on design development.
2. Coordinating & developing Business Cases and other supporting documentation.
3. Engagement with various partners, positively challenging the Performance, Time, Cost and Risks to ensure project outputs are delivered.
4. Ensuring that project timelines are coherent, realistic and that key goals and dependencies are actively managed.
5. Leading and supporting production and delivery of presentations. Identifying and managing project risks.

Supporting the Integrated Project Team to ensure financial mechanisms and approaches are created and agreed at the offset.

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, Experience and Technical skills.

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. (750 Words)

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

• Leadership
• Delivering At Pace

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.