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 much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached. 

About DIO

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Job description

As an Assistant Project Manager you will be supporting the Senior Project Manager and report to the Assistant Head (AH) for your area, who is accountable and responsible for delivering complex Capital Infrastructure Delivery, with utmost focus on Performance, Cost & Time and proactively managing our supply chain to perform, ensuring delivery of both Life Cycle Replacement or improvement outcomes.

The position will operate within the Major Programmes and Projects (MPP) United Kingdom Strategic Command (UKStratCom) facing team and as such will deliver infrastructure projects for the customers, UKStratCom.

If not already held, the successful applicant will be required to complete the APM within 12 months of being in post.

It is important to note that this post is open to Sole UK Nationals only. You must have resided in the UK for the last 10 years.

As a hybrid role, the expectation is that the successful applicant will combine home working with working in the office depending on business needs.

Person specification

• Support Project Managers in all aspects of the delivery of various defence infrastructure projects.
• Assist in delivery of benefits against the business case and ensure appropriate approvals and assurance plans are in place.
• Work with the Senior Project Manager to Identify and set appropriate project controls, tracking and reporting delivery against milestones and budgets.
• Schedule and run project resources.
• Manage project partners and connect with them at all levels.
• Identify and supervise project risks and issues and ensure effective change management processes exist.
• Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making and control of projects and their place in a programme and Portfolio.
• Support team PMO activities and act as a point of contact for internal DIO stakeholders.
• Support regular commitments including team meetings and audit activities.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Proven project management experience within a construction industry
• Experience in delivering major programmes and projects to a high standard.
• Membership of APM or equivalent

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 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.

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
    
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

Experience:

CV including: Full Qualification Details, Job History, Previous Skills and Experience

Personal Statement detailing in no more than 500 words: ability to communicate effectively and experience of successfully managing stakeholders

Behaviours:

• Leadership

At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following:

Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at a Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn't always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.

Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing: 19/02/2024

Interviews are currently taking place via Face to Face or remotely through a digital platform, this will be confirmed with the successful candidates who are invited to an interview and will be conducted week commencing: 26/02/2024

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs. 

To assist with your application please find attached below:  

1. DIO Candidate Information Guide
2. DIO Candidate Information Guide - Accessible Version

For help and support with your application check out our

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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.