About the job

Job summary

His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde (HMNB Clyde) is home to the United Kingdom’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Astute Class Attack Submarines, First Mine Counter Measure Squadron and 43 Cdo Royal Marines. It is an operational support and maintenance base, within the Navy Command TLB 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.        

RNAD Coulport is responsible for the storage, processing, maintenance and issue of the Trident Weapon System and the ammunitioning of all submarine-embarked tactical weapons.  

This role is within the HMNB Clyde Service Delivery Group and provides financial management of the Soft Facility Management (Soft FM) and Hard Facility Management and Alongside Services (Hard FM & ALS) Contracts at HMNB Clyde, under the Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP).

• Are you experienced in providing financial management of contracts?
  
• Do you have good communication skills and can work flexibly and at pace to deliver results?
  
• Do you want to play an exciting and pivotal part in the SDG team?
  
• Do you want to work within an operational environment supporting key Royal Navy outputs?
  

If so, we would love to hear from you, as we are now looking to fill a Performance Manager role within the Service Delivery Group.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to fill a Performance Manager role within the Service Delivery Group. The successful candidate will be given full induction, first class training and benefit from a comprehensive range of benefits associated with the Civil Service. The role provides pivotal, timely, accurate and effective financial management of key elements of the Soft FM and Hard FM & ALS contracts at HMNB Clyde. It requires a flexible, customer focused approach, someone who is comfortable and thrives in a changeable environment, whilst maintaining oversight of financial information with industry. The team has a strong continuous improvement ethos and will be adaptable to embrace new technologies and the digital automation of processes. You will be collaborating with commercial partners, Military personnel, and MOD stakeholders to deliver financial outputs.

Person specification

Previous experience of financial/pricing of contracts (including single source), using financial systems (including excel), together with strong communication and inter-personal skills and a proven ability to work across a wide range of MOD and Industry stakeholders are required.

Key Responsibilities, in support to the Senior Performance Manager, of this role are:

• Financial Management of the Hard Facility Management and Alongside Services (Hard FM & ALS) and the Soft Facility Management (Soft FM) to ensure full compliance with the Contracts and MOD/Government policy.
• Financial assurance and approval of new requirements onto the Contracts, ensuring appropriate fiancial approval has been granted with relevent Authority entities.
• Assurance and approval of monthly Industry invoices, through to payment.
• Production of monthly contract Forecast of Outturn (FOO).
• Monthly consolidation and reporting of contract financial performance information to support the SDG and HMNB Clyde, Finance and Governance processes and externally into the Central and Strategic layers.
• Collation and analysis of Royal Navy (RN) Secondeed personnel hours, as provided by Industry, ensuring they comply with the Contracts to enable the production of the monthly RN Hours invoice.
• Maintain version control of the SDG contracts Chart of Accounts / Accounting Codes, tracking changes with full justification / approvals etc.
• Provide support to the oversight of the implementation of the Industry Time Recording system to ensure data is provided in accordance with the contractual requirement.
• HMNB Clyde Super User for Contract Management Tools (COMPASS, MIDAS, FRT and CP&F), providing support and training when required.
• Provide support to Asst HD SDG in the procurement stratgey, scoping and placement of replacement to FMSP contracts.

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 and Experience.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability (500 Words) and a CV details to include: job history; previous skills and experience.  

At sift and interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service
• Leadership

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The minimum level of security needed for Navy Command staff is Security Check.

It is anticipated that the interviews will take place at HMNB Clyde.

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.