About the job

Job summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a growing team and set the standards of what excellent looks like?

His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde (HMNB Clyde) is home to the United Kingdom's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Astute Class Submarines, Sandown Class Mine Hunter Vessels and 43 Commando Royal Marines. It is an operational support and maintenance Naval Base within Navy Command and comprises both Faslane and Coulport Sites.

HMNB Clyde's primary purpose is to provide engineering and logistical support to the Royal Navy in maintaining Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD). This is achieved by ensuring at least one Vanguard Class submarine is on patrol at sea every day of the year.

HMNB Clyde is the single operational home of the Submarine Service and the United Kingdom's Submarine Centre of Excellence. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the Royal Navy's operational commitments across all Defence Lines of Development from Scotland on enduring basis. The location offers an excellent opportunity to develop skills through training and opportunities for career progression.

HMNB Clyde is undergoing a high value programme of infrastructure development (>£1Bn over the next decade.) The Delivery Sponsor role is part of a small Navy Command team supporting delivery of the Clyde Infrastructure Programme and Major Projects Programme delivering the infrastructure solutions to develop HMNB Clyde as the Submarine Centre of Specialisation.

This presents an excellent opportunity for commencing and developing an exciting and challenging career within the Civil Service and across a broad range of functions and numerous skill sets in direct support of output delivery.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The Delivery Sponsor 6.3.1.1 Executive Officer (EO) is responsible to Assistant Head Infrastructure (AHI) and Deputy Head Infrastructure (DHI) and will be required to assure that delegated Faslane and Outstations infrastructure support Safe, Secure and Effective operation in support of current and future Naval Base outputs.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Liaise with Clyde stakeholders to ensure their capability requirements are met; agree and monitor the delivery programme and ensure remedial/repair actions are carried out to target and/or contracted timescales.
• Ensure delivery of Clyde Outstation requirements by Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO).
• Liaise with DIO and internal & external stakeholders to ensure compliance with energy, waste, and other environmental issues.
• Undertake appropriate tasks identified by the line management chain.
• Lead any activity in support of their objectives within their responsibility.
• Provide progress and issue updates to relevant stakeholders and the management chain.

Person specification

The candidate should have leadership skills and be highly organised, with previous experience of stakeholder management and engagement at all levels. The post requires excellent written and oral communication skills and be able to work under pressure as part of a team and individually with minimal supervision.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 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 (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This vacancy will be filled based on Behaviours and Experience demonstrated.

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

You will also be required to provide a statement of suitability (Max 750 words).

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

At interview you will be assessed on the following

• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

If there is a large number of applications only the lead behaviour (Managing a Quality Service) may be assessed on application, all behaviours will be assessed at interview.

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.