About the job

Job summary

As the Information Support Administrator, you will provide support for a busy MOD office making sure to follow Defence policies.

You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of information administration within the department.

You will need to have outstanding inter-personal skills with the ability to meet the demands of a busy office when things go wrong.

You will have the ability to be able to prioritise own workload and be able to adapt to suit as when required due to the diverse needs of our office.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities.  Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

Job description

 Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the IM capability and governance.

 Facilitate the transfer of sensitive information between a wide range of secure systems.

 Facilitate the process of creating and maintaining MODNET and other accounts within the department.

 Support and maintain SharePoint sites and MS Apps in accordance with IM policy.

 Support and maintain classified information within the office

Set up meetings, arrange VTC and produce presentational material as required for these meetings

Person specification

Professional Effectiveness: Shows clear understanding of professional environment.

Carries out full range of tasks effectively and independently. 

Reliability: Displays loyalty, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, and consistency.

Demonstrates a sense of duty and commitment.

Powers of Communication: Displays good oral communication ability to inform and convince.

Produces logical, fluent, convincing and accurate written work.

Judgement:  Demonstrates critical application of available information to arrive at sound, timely decisions.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £24,985, Ministry of Defence contributes £6,745 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.

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

At Application and Interview Candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours-
Making Effective Decisions
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 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.