About the job

Job summary

Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) enables Defence people to live, work, train and deploy at home and overseas. We manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government. In doing so we play a vital role in supporting our armed forced by building, maintaining and servicing the infrastructure needed to support Defence, providing the armed forces and their families with a fit for purpose estate that includes accommodation. 

DIO has transformed its ambition over recent years and as Deputy Director of Business Improvement, you will be pivotal in helping the organisation fully respond to that intent, working with the wider business to understand where you can best bring value to the organisation in helping it become more agile, efficient and effective, ensuring consistency of focus, prioritisation and driving continuous improvement.

Are you a strategic leader with experience delivering business transformation and change? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Job description

 Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for setting and driving the implementation of DIO’s business improvement agenda. Ensuring it best supports delivery of DIO’s ten-year strategy and associated objectives, whilst also making sure it is coherent with and reflective of wider transformation activities across the infrastructure domain and Defence.
• As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, play an important role in helping to shape the future of the DIO, contributing broadly to the wider organisational improvement and development agenda; both internal and external to DIO.
• Accountable for developing and delivering DIO’s internal business improvement and agenda and roadmap for change, ensuring it remains both relevant and deliverable within the current operating environment and resource envelope.
• Building and leveraging networks across the enterprise to ensure strong partnership working, identify improvements and generate better business outcomes.
• Act as a change and business improvement ambassador on all aspects of business improvement within the DIO.
• Operate at ExCo level and with senior stakeholders across the MOD to provide positive and proactive advice, act as a ‘critical friend’ and drive cultural and behavioural change
• Responsible for leading the management of complex issues and dependencies through skilled stakeholder engagement.
• Ensuring the creation of good governance and reporting across the portfolio.

Person specification

You must be able to demonstrate your experience and skills against the following essential criteria:

• A confident and thoughtful leader with a track record of developing and continuously improving high performing, diverse and inclusive operational teams.
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to establish and maintain influential relationships with stakeholders at all levels across Defence and externally.
• Experience of successfully leading and managing transformation and change to delivery tangible outcomes. In particular, experience of creating a culture of continuous improvement and challenging the status quo, transforming and simplifying processes to deliver in radically different ways and ensuring that employees and users are engaged in the change.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and an ability to respond to urgent, unexpected issues.
• A successful track record of demonstrating personal resilience; the ability to cope confidently with ambiguity and make sound judgements in a complex and fast-moving environments. ​​

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process accessed via the advertisement listed for this role. This should be completed no later than 23:55 on Sunday 25th February 2024 and will involve providing the two documents outlined below via the Civil Service Jobs portal:

• A CV (no more than 2 pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
• A Personal Statement (no more than 2 pages) explaining how your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role. 

Both documents are weighted equally in their scoring, so it's important to consider this when uploading your application. Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. 

For further information about the role and full application process, please refer to the candidate pack attached below. If you wish to receive any material in a different format for accessibility, then please contact People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

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.