About the job

Job summary

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to shape the delivery of a major recapitalisation programme to regenerate His Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth HMNB(P) to enable our Armed Forces to protect, defend and support everyday life?

The HMNB(P) Infrastructure Team are currently seeking individuals who are ambitiously driven to support in the delivery of a dynamic programme to regenerate the Naval Base and to actively lead the improvement of evidenced-based decision making across the function through the developing culture of data and management information.

The Naval dockyard at Portsmouth can be traced back to 1194 and, although it has undergone several significant redevelopments in this time, it still hosts a unique set of maritime assets, many of which are maintained in daily use today. The base is one of the most complex Defence industrial sites and is at the start of a major period of recapitalisation to support future sustainable Navy operations through the 21st Century.

The Naval Base is a Government-owned, Company-operated (GOCO) site and the estate comprises a diverse and complex environment which presents niche challenges and possibilities across the wide range of operational assets. It is home to almost two-thirds of the Royal Navy's surface ships, including the aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, Type 45 destroyers, Type 23 frigates and mine countermeasures and fishery protection squadrons. 

The base is a major employer and provides lodging facilities to RN personnel serving at the base and in Portsmouth-based ships.

In Navy Command, our civil servants work alongside their military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which often have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities we deliver.

Roles can offer great job satisfaction and there are many opportunities to develop and progress both within the Department and across the wider Civil Service.

This post is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

As a Grade 7 Senior Practitioner in Strategic Asset Management, you will work to the Infrastructure Superintendent and lead the Intelligent Asset Owner/Client team, working with a range of industry colleagues, to monitor asset performance, material state, maintenance, and life cycle planning across a comprehensive portfolio of assets across the infrastructure, equipment and systems that support the base’s operational output.

With this understanding, you will lead the continuous development of the Naval Base 10/20-year infrastructure strategy with the Estates Management Plan (EMP), Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) and Infrastructure Asset Management Plans (AMPs) alongside the Asset Capability Managers, creating the prioritised requirements and demand signal that is undertaken by the Infrastructure Programme Delivery teams.

You will also champion the increasing digitisation and practical presentation of site-wide data and assure the delivery performance of the site’s industrial infrastructure providers.

Person specification

This is a fast paced and challenging role. To be successful you will need to:

• Be motivated and confident: you will lead, inspire and mentor both team members and industry partners effectively to enable them to work together towards common goals.

• Have strong stakeholder management and communication skills: you will need to establish and develop productive relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, clearly communicating messages to colleagues whilst overcoming barriers, and taking into consideration diversity of interest.

• Be able to interpret and analyse data to inform decision making. You will need to proactively analyse, evaluate, and adapt the best solutions and present your findings convincingly. Be dynamic in decision making.

• Have robust time management and planning and prioritisation. You will need to be able to work in flexible, changing circumstances and adverse situations whilst remaining calm and maintaining performance.

• Have proficient IT skills across Microsoft office, specifically with Excel, Power BI and networked information management systems.

• Be keen to learn and develop both your personal skills and the organisation’s practices and processes.

• Demonstrate practical experience and Practitioner skill levels for Estate Strategy and Property Data Management outlined in the Government Professional Property Framework. Formal certification is highly desirable and we will actively support you gain these skills qualifications through the early stages of your employment.

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,670, Ministry of Defence contributes £15,570 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.

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.

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

At the sift, you will be assessed against your CV and the following behaviours:

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating & Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving

At interview, you will be assessed against the following behaviours: 

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

Interviews may be held remotely via Skype/Teams/Telephone or may be face to face. Details and dates will be confirmed to those applicants called for interview.

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.
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 

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.