About the job

Job summary

The uniformed civilians of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) are professional qualified seafarers, trained and educated to recognised international maritime standards and deliver worldwide logistic and operational support to Royal Navy military operations. Fully integrated into front-line warships, the RFA is an essential element of how the Royal Navy operates with freedom around the globe. The RFA supports a wide spectrum of operations from high-tempo war-fighting to counter-piracy, disaster relief, counter-narcotics, law enforcement and evacuation operations.  

Our team is based within Navy Command Headquarters; the nerve centre of the Royal Navy providing the ships, people, aircraft and equipment to deliver the UK’s defence policy. Civil Servants and Armed Forces personnel work together across a wide range of interesting and challenging jobs in different disciplines.  

It's important we proactively support, manage and administer the myriad of events, circumstances and occurrences that influence, change and affect the professional and private lives of our international Seafarers. At the heart of this we need both robust policy and process in place to set and maintain professional standards and personal behaviour, and we need accurate and complete digital documentation/records, stored securely and accessed appropriately by the most appropriate team, worldwide.

This is a busy and complex People role at a time of great change. This position includes taking responsibility as the core Case Work manager for issues regarding attendance, discipline and standards ensuring that actions, hearings and consequences are conducted and recorded in accordance with policy and decisions are formally enacted within published timescales. 

We are seeking to integrate our HR functions within the wider Personnel and training team and are working with DBS to design and implement a system of policies and processes to enable the RFA to benefit from the full catalogue of CS HR interventions. You’ll lead the work to create the framework for these integrations and be the main point of contact as services and responsibilities move across teams.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Job description

You’ll work with Head RFA People Ops, the RFA SEO People Delivery Manager and the Compliance and resource teams to ensure timely and pragmatic resolution of case work and with the PIIAC to produce and respond to accurate resource and capability data including forecasting and identifying/planning for any effect on the capability requirement, schedule and process. 

You’ll also work with Commanding Officers, our Career and Talent Team Leaders and our Career Managers to train and support them to understand and effectively undertake first line HR action.

Lastly, you’ll be asked to make regular contact with other teams across Personnel and Training carrying out similar functions and seek out ways to improve, digitise, automate and integrate our HR admin processes within an agile Whole Force Royal Navy.

Person specification

This role entails speaking with our team members, police, legal team and partner agencies as they navigate challenging, uncertain and difficult personal circumstances (for which training and support will be provided) and therefore I ask that applicants consider and self-assess their resilience and suitability for the position.

I’m looking for someone interested in a busy People role, someone who wants to be empowered to achieve outcomes within the policy. For the management of the case work with legal implications I need someone who has great attention to detail and really good IT skills to document decision making and any elements agreed at Risk.

I’m also looking for someone who would like to shape and influence change, who is happy to work with a degree of flexibility and ambiguity as the team develops and who is confident enough to speak up with ideas and challenges.

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 is the assessment process we will be following for this role, and what will be tested at every stage:

Stage 1 - Application form including Behaviours and CV.

Stage 2 - Interview including Behaviours.

A CV will be required for this position, which you will submit using the CV template provided on the CS Jobs Dashboard in part two of your application, detailing job history, full qualifications, previous experience and skills.

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

• Changing and improving
• Communicating and influencing
• Leadership
• Managing a quality service

Please note if there are a large number of applications, the recruiter reserves the right to conduct an initial sift against the lead behaviour of Communicating and Influencing only.

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams.

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.