About the job

Job summary

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!  Learn more about Defence Infrastructure in our Candidate Information Guide attached. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

This exciting new position within Plans and Requirements offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support Service Families Accommodation Planning at a time of significant change through the Defence Estate Optimisation Programme (DEOP) and the introduction of the New Accommodation Offer (NAO). The position works directly to SO1 Plan and Requirements and will support scope, refine and analyse data in order to inform how we can best support Service Families with accommodation.  - Prepare and Coordinate Service Families Accommodation (SFA) Stock and Occupation data reports to support DIO Accommodation Plans and Requirements (P&R) in effective SFA Estate and Stock Planning. - Coordinate DEOP SFA requests, using Project Team Information on DEOP moves to support effective SFA forecasting across the Defence Estate. - Track and update Top Level Budget (TLB) changes in DEOP to ensure requirements are captured and updated in P&R Registers and Workbooks to inform SFA Planning.  - Provide and Coordinate data reports as required to support the effective planning for roll out of the New Accommodation Offer (NAO) using Microsoft products and DIO Information Systems. - Provide quality assured SFA data to underpin requests for Management Information (MI) and to meet request timelines, to meet P&R taskings. - Support Plans and Requirements C2 Data Analyst as required - Any other additional duties directed by Head Plans and Requirements in support of SFA future planning and the wider Plans and Requirements Team appropriate to the grade.

Person specification

Competent in use of Microsoft Office and in particular Excel.

Experience analysis and handling of data (Desirable)

Some limited travel maybe required.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 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.

We will assess you against the following behaviours during the selection process:

•  Leadership
•  Changing and Improving 
•  Working together
•  Delivering at Pace 
•  Managing a Quality Service 
• Communicating and influencing

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

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving 
•  Working together

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

• Delivering At Pace
• Managing A Quality Service
• Communicating And Influencing

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.