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!

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

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. 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. 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. 

We are currently operating a Hybrid working model with an expectation of at least 60% of your working time to be spent in the office or on a project site.

About DIO 

View our YouTube video to see more about our work 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/I9tLu3UdiGY?rel=0

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.

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.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the Job History & Lead behaviour. In this instance the remaining elements will be tested at interview.

 At application stage you will be assessed against the following: 

Experience:

• Job History
• Full Qualification Details
• Previous Skills and Experience

Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership 

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service 

Technical: Government Property Profession Career Framework

• P3M09 – Schedule Management
• P3M11 – Budgeting and Cost Control
• P3M12 – Risk, Opportunity and Issue Management 

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: W/C - 10 June 2024

Interviews are currently taking place via Teams and will be conducted week commencing: 01 July 2024

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. Grade 6 & 7 posts will be given 7 days’ notice if psychometric tests are selected. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

To assist with your application please find attached below:  

1. DIO Candidate Information Guide
2. Functional Framework 

For help and support with your application check out our Civil service careers homepage Assessments and Interviews , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

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.