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!

View our YouTube video to see more about our work: How the Defence Infrastructure Organisation Supports Defence - YouTube

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with an established background in programme management and project delivery who is now looking to further develop their career.

We are looking for a senior practitioner who can effectively manage the delivery of their allocated sub-programme to an agreed budget and timeline. They will need to effectively lead and support a number of project teams and engage with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Person specification

The key tasks for this role are:

• Manage, set up and deliver an allocated sub-programme of work, providing effective leadership of the team, managing programme risks and dependencies, delivery reporting and working within a delegated budget
• Manage the appointment and performance of contractors to the appropriate commercial, financial and delivery standards
• Problem solve, co-ordinate, de-conflict and escalate any issues that arise; collaborate closely with a variety of senior stakeholders, provide reports and detailed information as required
• Review and ensure Business Cases are compliant, meet required standards and enable professional project delivery
• Manage, check and test the financial propriety and application of due process to all projects within area of responsibility, taking appropriate corrective action as needed.

Desirable Experience & Skills:

Membership of an appropriate professional body such as APM, RICS or CIOB.

This role will form part of a developed programme and as such candidates will require an understanding of programme and project fundamentals to be suitable for this post. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,670, Ministry of Defence contributes £15,570 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.

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. (500 Words)

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

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture

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

• Leadership
• 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 17/06/2024.

Interviews will take place at Army HQ, Andover and will be conducted week commencing 24/06/2024.

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.

To assist with your application please find attached below:

1. DIO Candidate Information Guide
2. DIO Candidate Information Guide Accessible Version
3. Programme and Project Management (P3M) Framework

For help and support with your application check out our https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/Civil Service Careers Homepage and the https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-apply/How to apply section

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.