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!

About DIO

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Job description

Major Programmes and Projects (MPP) are the capital infrastructure delivery specialists to the DIO & MOD. Based UK & Overseas, our dedicated professionals are passionate about the work they do and the projects we deliver as an organisation. These include the development of runways and jetties, key refurbishments, accommodation for US Forces and much more.
MPP’s portfolio includes high profile and complex projects, with our Major Programmes in value over £1bn. We have 7 directorates, some which are directly aligned to our Front-Line Commands which strengthens our support in the delivery of Capital Infrastructure. Army, Air, Navy, UK-StratCom, United States Visiting Forces (USVF) Defence Continuity Team (DCT) and the Portfolio Office. All are diverse and unique, delivering excellence to our customers and stakeholders. Our reach is exponential, and no two days are the same!
The DIO Air Directorate is a £2.5bn portfolio of work covering a dispersed geographic area. It encompasses all capital construction work undertaken in the UK on behalf of the Royal Air Force, as well as elements of the Defence Estates Optimisation programme
In this role you will be responsible and accountable for delivering sophisticated Capital Infrastructure, with utmost focus on delivering to Performance, Cost & Time whilst proactively managing our supply chain to perform.
You will examine requirements and provide continual assurance that proposed solutions meet these. You will develop business cases and oversee the work of contractors delivering assessment studies and construction works.
Travel to face-to-face meetings with customers and wider team members, including contractors, with occasional nights away from home will be required. However, we embrace hybrid-working based on the delivery of outputs and achieving objectives. This work can be complex and challenging but through team engagement and collaborative working these challenges can be overcome.
We will invest in you and encourage training. Mentors are available to ensure you develop the requisite skills and competence to enable you to deliver effective outputs within the Ministry of Defence.
The successful candidate will demonstrate experience of successfully leading and delivering projects and/or programmes against a broad range of functional competences.

Person specification

Leading project delivery activities through overall management, co-ordination and direction of both internal and external resources.
•    Manage financial performance of projects, providing regular forecasts, managing financial performance of projects within agreed tolerances against approved budgets, providing accurate financial reporting.
•    Ensuring effective change management processes exist and are implemented.
•    Identify and supervise the management of project risks, issues and opportunities to improve the deliverability.
•    Supervise delivery, in collaboration with Users and Industry, ensuring successful delivery to cost and time and achieving VfM.
•    Provide leadership, engaging with internal and external partners and negotiating key outcomes to support delivery.
•    Develop key artefacts, collaborating with colleagues to undertake assurance and reviews evaluating progress, compliance, and probability of delivery to provide confidence to all parties.
•    Undertake project assurance reviews at key stages of your projects to evaluate progress, compliance and probability of delivery to provide confidence to key stakeholders
•    Develop Business Cases to justify and seek approval for planned project delivery solutions and supervise the delivery of benefits.

Desirable Experience & Skills:

Experience:
Candidates will preferably have experience of leading and delivering infrastructure projects

Membership:
Membership of a professional body institution (e.g. RIBA, RICS, ICE, CIBSE, IMechE, CIOB or equivalent)

Qualification:
The candidate must hold one of  the following qualifications OR provide evidence of experience in: 
APMP/APM(PMQ)
Prince 2 Practitioner 
P3O Practitioner 
Project Leadership Programme

Environmental Factors / Hazards Associated with the Post

As Projects mature, visits may be required to Construction Sites where Health & Safety measures (including, but not limited to, safety briefings and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will be provided to assist in your safe-keeping.

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, 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.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours :

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at a Pace
• Leadership

Experience:

• CV to include Full Job History, Full Qualification Details & Previous Skills & Experience
• Personal Statement - Detailing in no more than 750 words:
  Proven Project Management experience (ideally within a construction industry), of delivering major projects/programmes to a high standard.
  Experience of successfully managing stakeholders in a complex regulated environment.
  Effective communicating and influencing skills which has aided decision making.

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

• Delivering at a Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical:

• P3M Competence Framework P3M09 – Schedule Management - Practioner
• P3M Competence Framework P3M12 - Risk, Opportunity & Issue Management - Practioner
• P3M Competence Framework P3M11 -  Budgeting and Cost Control -Practioner

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 22/01/2024.

Interviews are currently taking place remotely and will be conducted week commencing 05/02/2024.

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. P3M Competence Framework 

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.