About the job

Job summary

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!

Learn much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached. 

Job description

The role of the Assistant Project Manager is to lead and manage smaller projects or project activities on a day-to-day basis. The Assistant Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of the projects/activities they are assigned, to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. The Assistant Project Manager has a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised. No two days are the same!

Person specification

We will ask you to:
•    Support the Integrated Project Team in order to deliver DIO outputs
•    Work collaboratively and develop skills and experience in the application of project and programme management standard methodology including planning, scheduling, financial management, risk management reporting and stakeholder engagement.
•    Direct delivery in collaboration with users and industry, with a view to delivery of the project within budget and time constraints
•    Act as the MoD focal point for resolution of all technical issues and support all performance management reporting needs
•    Support wider DIO business and improvement in a variety of ways including undertaking post-project lessons learned exercise and sharing/making use of best practice where appropriate.

Desirable Experience and Skills:

• Experience of working in the Ministry of Defence and/or other Government Departments or Public Sector organisations 

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, 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

Experience:

• Career Information: Full Qualification details, Job History
• Personal Statement:

 Detailing in no more than 500 describe your experience in:

• Prioritise 
• Organise
• Communicate
• Motivate

        
At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following:

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical:

• P3M Competence Framework P3M09 - Schedule Management - Awareness
• P3M Competence Framework P3M12 - Risk, Opportunity & Issue - Awareness

                
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: 15/01/2024

Interviews are currently taking place either remotely or face to face and will be conducted week commencing: 22/01/2024

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. 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. DIO Candidate Information Guide - Accessible Version
3. P3M Competence Framework

For help and support with your application check out our Civil Service Careers Homepage and the How to apply section

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.