About the job

Job summary

The Head Office Safety, Security and Business Resilience (SSBR) Team are based in MOD Main Building, London.  Its role is to ensure that MOD Main Building continues to operate in all foreseeable circumstances.  The team works alongside key stakeholders to deliver its primary objective and provides advice to Head Office on Safety, Security and Resilience matters.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

You will be required to establish and maintain a close working relationship with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation and Private Finance Initiative colleagues who provide the hard and soft facilities management and infrastructure works for Main Building. 

You will be required to manage the Business Resilience team’s response to all operational resilience incidents including assessment of the impact on the building for planned maintenance works and considering the measured and appropriate response with the available team resources.  You will be required to provide proportionate risk-based advice to the Deputy and Principal Security Advisors, and Deputy Head and Head of Establishment to drive forward the right outcomes for Head Office. You will be responsible for providing support to critical incidents and disruptions to Main Building and its business units.  You will have oversight of members of the Business Resilience team who will act as administrative support to the Incident Management Command Group (IMCG) and cohere any lessons learned. 

You will work closely with the Directorate of Security and Resilience (DSR) to ensure Head Office continues to remain aligned with Joint Service Publication (JSP) on Resilience matters and work and ensure effective communication with Business Resilience leads across Head Office to ensure they remain aligned with policy.  You will also ensure that any policy changes impacting the PFI contract are communicated to Defence Infrastructure Organisation and the PFI and hold DIO to account on the delivery of required policy adherence. Members of the Business Resilience team will produce management information (MI) regarding business resilience assurance across the Head Office estate and the post holder will ensure that measured action is observed and responded to, from the information obtained.

During FY24/25, you will also contribute to the development of the Head Office Resilience Improvement plan aimed to increase the assurance of Business Resilience within Head Office.

 As part of the resilience planning for MOD Main Building, you will liaise closely with the Top Office Group and be required to brief Private Office colleagues and be proactive in building a strong resilience culture within Head Office. The post-holder will also be responsible for providing personalised 1-2-1 briefings to the Executive Committee and Ministers who form the Defence Council Group. Additional support and training will be provided.

The post itself supports other pillars within the Safety, Security and Business Resilience team. You may be called upon to support other areas of work where there is a demand and need for support e.g., providing support to cover to the Pass Office or acting as secretariat for Safety and Security meetings.

Responsibilities:

To drive forward operational resilience and management of incidents within the Main Building estate, considering risks and issues and cohering and applying lessons learned.

To undertake the management of resilience risks for Head Office, to maintain awareness of the risks and impacts to the establishment and to advise key stakeholders of the mitigating actions which can/should be undertaken to protect the operational delivery of Head Office.

Provision of resilience advice and guidance to Head Office, ensuring alignment with Departmental policy including the management, oversight and production of Business Resilience and Continuity Planning management information (MI).

Development and authorship of the Head Office Resilience Improvement Plan, including raising the profile of resilience and continuity

training to improve Business Resilience culture within Head Office.

To be a key member of the Head Office Security and Resilience Working Group providing Resilience and Continuity input to the board.

To provide high level briefings to Op staff on measures and plans in place and to work with crisis teams to ensure awareness is maintained.

Agile resource working across all areas of Safety, Security and Business Resilience (SSBR) team priorities where required.

The post holder will be expected to join the on-call duty officer team, acting as the primary out of hours point of contact and to respond when called, raising necessary issues to the secondary POC, and seeing all incidents through to a suitable resolution.  This additional role attracts an On Call Allowance and potential for overtime / disturbance allowances when issues arise.

Person specification

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised individual to fill the role of Head Office Business Resilience Lead Advisor in MOD Head Office. This is an exciting, high-profile role which works across the Head Office estate. The office is a busy, fun, and supportive environment.  the post holder will be required to be flexible to deliver a mixture of operational delivery functions, responding to and planning for impacts to the building, unplanned outages, and incidents, managing business as usual tasking and the Business Resilience team’s overall objectives alongside ensuring compliance with departmental resilience processes.

Working as the Head Office Business Resilience Lead requires:

• Self-starters who are comfortable working independently in a fast-paced but interesting environment.
• People with excellent interpersonal skills, able to express themselves clearly and engage with a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure that Head Office resilience and continuity measures and priorities are met.
• Confident leadership skills and the ability to manage a small team giving supportive direction, guidance and encouragement where required.
• People with sound judgement and analytical skills, able to take information and draw out pertinent data points and trends and to confidently highlight those concisely.
• People who themselves are resilient, able to oversee their own work and prioritise against challenges, with a good instinct and agile to seek direction where required.
• Individuals who are highly organised and able to establish a close working relationship with a wide range of contacts, inside and outside of the department.
• A sense of fun and a willingness to help colleagues and to support a great team ethos within the section and across the business.

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 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.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

At application your CV (Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience) and Personal Statement to provide a statement of suitability (word limit 1000) will be scored on how you meet the essential criteria for the role alongside the following two Civil Service Behaviours:

• Deliver at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

 At interview you will be tested on the following Civil Service Behaviours:  

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service

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 developed vetting (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

Open to UK nationals only.

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.

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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 developed vetting (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

Open to UK nationals only.

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.