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.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to heavily influence decisions made by Defence in the management of the estate, by delivering business intelligence through the application of sophisticated geo-analytical techniques.

The postholder will have opportunities to work on a broad range of projects ranging from sustainability and asset management to aerodrome safeguarding. This work will provide the foundation for evidence-based decisions through use of fundamental and innovative geospatial analysis.

As a member of Data Exploitation's (DEx) Geospatial Analytics Team there are opportunities to be involved in a wide spectrum of analytical projects. The post requires an individual who is able to engage with customers, applying geospatial and analytical skills, tools and knowledge to support the business. The postholder should have credible experience of delivering geospatial outputs in the following areas:

• Understanding and delivering against customer requirements to support locational analysis to better evidence decisions.
• Exploitation of spatial and non-spatial data and delivery of analytical outputs such as Maps, Visualisations, Dashboards and Reports.

The job requires the creative use of the tools available to deliver innovative solutions. 

Person specification

Deliver Geospatial & Analytical projects

• Use of geospatial tools and processes to provide business insight
• Advise on and apply appropriate geospatial techniques
• Develop engaging and insightful outputs and visualisations
• Documented and quality-assured projects appropriately
• Ensure successful delivery of projects to time, quality and cost
• Engage with the DEx project management system ensuring processes are followed

Develop and implement an advanced geospatial analytics capability

• Support more sophisticated analysis of DIO data and open up possibilities of more insightful conclusions.
• Contribute to the efficiency and repeatability of workflows through automation and the repeatable analytical pipeline.
• Understand and implement geospatial standards throughout DIO & Ministry of Defence (MOD)
• Contribute to the development and upskilling of the Geospatial Analytics team

Leadership within the Geospatial Team

• Dedication to the DIO Guiding Principles including diversity & inclusion.
• Delivery of departmental goals
• Ensure compliance with mandatory requirements e.g. Health & Safety (H & S) training.
• Promote strong working relationships both within the team and with other teams across DIO, MOD and Other Government Departments (OGD’s)

Desirable Experience & Skills: Experience of using Esri products including ArcGIS Pro

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, Experience and Technical skills.

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.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the 2 Defence Geography Functional Competencies. In this instance the remaining elements will be tested at interview.

Application sift is scheduled to take place W/e 21st June 2024

Selection interviews expected to take place W/e 28th June 2024 on MS Teams>

>At application stage<you will be assessed against the following:u>

Behaviours:

• Working Together

 Experience:

• CV- Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

 

You will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Technical Skills at both Application and Interview:

• DG1 - Understanding Foundation GEOINT
• DG7 - Conducting Geospatial Analysis

To assist with your application please find attached below:

• Defence Geography Competence Framework

At Interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

 

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

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.