About the job

Job summary

His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde (HMNB Clyde) is the Single Integrated Operating Base (SIOB) and Submarine Centre of Specialism (SMCoS) for the Royal Navy submarines and submariners. This operating construct allows the Royal Navy to deliver its operational commitments across all Defence Lines of Development from Scotland on an enduring basis.

HMNB Clyde provides an open, flexible, and supportive work environment where Civil Servants, Armed Forces personnel and Contractors work together in an abundance of operationally focused, challenging, and rewarding roles. This is an employment opportunity at the heart of Defence’s main effort supporting the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent and maritime enterprise while preparing for the next generation of commitments.

Based at HMNB Clyde in Faslane, Hybrid Working, a blend of working in the workplace and from home, is widely encouraged but you should expect to work 3 days a week in Faslane in agreement with your Line Manager.

The position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The role is a Reserved Post and therefore restricted to UK National only applicants.

Job description

Programme Euston is a £2bn programme to deliver Additional Fleet Time Docking Capability (AFTDC), a robust out of water engineering capability, at HMNB Clyde. The capability will be delivered through a Joint enterprise with Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and their Industry Partners (IP) supported by the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA).

The Delivery Sponsor is an exciting new role as the HMNBC intelligent customer. The role will develop, promote, and influence common practice, shared knowledge to monitor and report project progress and risk management. They will work pro-actively to resolve any Capability focussed programme delivery issues. They will also be responsible for developing strong relationships with multiple stakeholders, whilst exploiting close collaboration with wider Naval Base and Programme Euston teams to support the readiness for delivering the capability to Clyde. This post reports to the Assistant Head Capability Integration (AFTDC),

The AFTDC is a small professional team within the Naval Base Commander Clyde (NBCC) organisation, matrix managed by the Programme Director for Euston. The team is responsible ensuring Programme Euston delivery is fully integrated with Naval Base readiness in order to deliver a safe, secure, and effective docking and engineering support capability at HMNB Clyde.

Person specification

Key Responsibilities 

Programme Delivery

Monitor progress of the delivery plan, forecasting, risk, and mitigation activities to meeting objectives.

Review programme artefacts such as schedules, RAIDO, lessons, design documents, to ensure delivery within the agreed tolerances and deadlines.

Deliver Management Information in line with HMNBC and Programme Euston requirements.

Provide Intelligent Customer support, advice, and direction to the Programme.

Capability Integration

Ensure cross Defence Lines of Development (DLOD) activity is coherent with wider HMNBC activities.

Capture programme activities and dependencies ensuring integration and clear communication between HMNBC and Programme Euston.

Be proactive in the addressing of obstacles, resolving conflicts, and promoting deconfliction between HMNBC and Programme Euston activity.

Communicate the programme plan, risks and issues, assumptions, and progress to a range of HMNBC stakeholders.

Stakeholder Management

Identify, establish, and lead effective working relationships with key stakeholders to achieve delivery outputs.

Work with HMNBC stakeholders to understand and manage dependencies and the impact of the capability being delivered.

Influence and encourage stakeholder best practice and behaviours to achieve programme integration within HMNBC.

Essential Skills & Experience

Candidates will be able to demonstrate:

Experience of working in a Programme & Project environment delivering complex, high-value capital projects

Strong communication and engagement skills, both written and verbal, for effective team collaboration and extensive stakeholder management

Knowledge of Programme Risk Management and Planning activities

Resourceful, show initiative, with a willingness to explore and solve problems effectively

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.

Candidates will be required to complete an online CV template to include job history, full details of education and qualifications and previous experiences and skills. Please also include any relevant responsibilities and achievements.

Candidates will be required to complete a Statement of Suitability/Personal Statement of no more 500 words, providing details relevant to the essential experience in the job advert.

At Application and Interview Candidates will be assessed against the following :

Leadership
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing 

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.

It is acceptable to use an example from another regulated industry for the Nuclear Technical competency. 

It is anticipated that the sift will take place within 5-7 working days from the closing date.

Interviews will be held face to face at HMNB Clyde.

There will be a reserve list for this advert where candidates who meet the interview criteria may be offered another post in the department should a suitable vacancy arise within 12 months from interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This post is undergoing organisational review and some aspects of the role may be subject to change following review.

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

Open to UK nationals only.

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.