About the job

Job summary

Royal Air Force Boulmer is looking to appoint a Mission Training Support Specialist within 20 Squadron (the Air Surveillance and Control System Operational Conversion Unit). This is an exciting opportunity to deliver and enable specialist Tactical Air Command and Control and Battle Management training in the Tactical Command and Control environment. This training supports individual role and collective Air warfare training to a range of students across defence. 

 This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

Job description

The successful candidate will be tasked with the effective management and quality of synthetic training delivered by A Flight, 20 Squadron, meeting all the requirements laid out in individual Role Performance Statements (RPS). They will use their previous experience to develop and run realistic scenarios, understand simulator capabilities and limitations, and support exercise and training output for the Squadron. The applicant must also display interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, in order to provide advice, guidance and support to all 20 Squadron trainers and trainees.
 

So, what does the Mission Training Support Specialist do? 

The responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

• Scenario development for A Flight courses.
• Run events to ensure trainees receive appropriate and realistic injects as part of their training.
• Be familiar with UK, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and US Doctrine to underpin realistic scenario development.
• Understand the capabilities of the simulator equipment utilised by 20 Squadron.
• Be prepared to support activity on some events in the Control and Reporting Centre that, from time to time, will form part of courses delivered by 20 Squadron.

Person specification

• Strong organisational and IT skills. Competent user of Microsoft Office 365 applications.  
• Strong verbal communication, and interpersonal skills. 
• Promotes a positive working environment. 
• Appropriate level of security awareness and confidentiality.  
• Effective and considered emotional intelligence and the desire to develop others.  

Essential qualifications 

• Defence Trainer Course unless you have completed legacy courses in accordance with Air Publication 3379.   
• Must have previously held one of the following qualifications within the Air Surveillance and Control System, although equivalent qualifications within the Airborne Warning and Control System and Joint environment will be considered.  Master Controller, Surveillance Director, Fighter Allocator, Combat Ready Identification Officer or Combat Ready Weapons Controller.

 

Desirable qualifications 

 Combat Ready in one of the supervisor essential ASACS roles above. 

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.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. If you pass sift you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the Behaviours listed within the advert.  

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 (250 words)

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• 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 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.