About the job

Job summary

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to support delivery of a major recapitalisation programme to regenerate Portsmouth Naval Base and enable our Armed Forces to protect, defend and support everyday life?

The Infrastructure Team are seeking ambitiously driven individuals to support a dynamic regeneration programme, supervising the delivery of Capital infrastructure and construction Projects across the Naval Base!

The role focuses primarily on Governance and Assurance of Projects being delivered by the Hard Facilities Management (HFM) contractor, and includes responsibility for securing relevant funding to proceed with Projects.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. 

Job description

The successful post-holder will ensure effective and timely delivery of planned regeneration Projects, primarily Systems works i.e. Electrical, Heating, Water Networks.

Working closely with the associated Asset Owner(s) and Programme Lead(s) to understand target outcomes, you'll form part of a joint MOD-Industry Delivery Team, developing viable Options Investment Appraisals before submitting timely Project justification (Business Case(s)) documentation, to identify Preferred Option(s) and optimum delivery approaches.

Thereafter, you will monitor the Procurement and Delivery cost, ensure Schedule is maintained, and manage Risk(s) to ensure Projects remain within the agreed and approved Time, Cost and Scope boundaries.

At Project completion, you're responsible for accepting the Project outcomes (and associated benefits), ensuring Value for Money whilst recording Lessons Learnt, and coordinating all through life support actions (i.e. implementation of Maintenance Plans).

Person specification

This is a fast paced and exciting role! To be successful you will need to:

• Be motivated and confident: inspiring team members and industry partners to achieve a common goal.
• Have strong stakeholder management and communication skills: necessary to establish and develop productive relationships internally and externally. This includes the ability to overcome communication barriers and deliver clear messages, decisions or direction, whilst taking diversity of interest into consideration.
• Interpret, analyse and evaluate data to inform dynamic decision making, using problem solving skills to adapt the best solutions, before communicating your findings / recommendations convincingly.
• Have robust time management, planning and prioritisation skills.
• Work flexibly to changing circumstances, emergent Risk(s) and adverse situations - whilst remaining calm, maintaining performance and identifying resolutions.
• Have proficient IT skills across Microsoft office, specifically with Excel.
• Be keen to learn and develop both your personal skills and Organisational practices and processes.

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.

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

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.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone

Sift will be assessed against the following criteria:

A CV that includes job history, transferable skills and experience, and details of qualifications.

A Personal Statement demonstrating suitability for the role. In 250 words or fewer, please outline 'how you meet the criteria specified above'.

The CS behaviours of:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating & Influencing

At interview, assessment will be against:

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

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

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.