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. 

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 and exciting roles.

The Support Capability Team reviews and informs future support arrangements by ensuring a clear understanding of services currently provided and by developing a robust understanding of gaps in provision.  It looks to improve current support arrangements and to develop a clear, cohesive, and robust understanding of the Future Demand Signal within a Clyde Integrated Operating Framework. It also contains the Service Delivery Group (SDG) that provides contract and financial management of the Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP) contracts.

There is an exciting opportunity to join the SDG in the position of Senior Performance Manager, responsible for the management of new requirements onto contract, improvement initiatives, transformation, transition, and integration activities associated with contracted outputs across FMSP contracts at HMNB Clyde.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

You will lead the interface from Customers into the SDG for all new contracted requirements to the FMSP Hard Facility Management & Alongside Services (Hard FM & ALS) and Soft Facility Management (Soft FM) contracts, ensuring coherence with other contracts (as required), from definition through to contract enactment onto the Hard FM & ALS and Soft FM contracts.

You will lead the collaboration and integration of all current and new contracted outputs for FMSP Hard FM & ALS and Soft FM contracts at HMNB Clyde including leading on any cross-contract Customer Feedback Forms to ensure a coherent response to the Customer.

You will lead all transition activity associated with the Soft FM and Hard FM &ALS contract through all aspects of the procurement cycle (definition, assessment, contracted, mobilisation, Initial Operating Capability (Service Commencement Date) to Full Operating Capability etc), ensuring all contracted outputs are transitioned to FOC and any new change / improvement initiatives are transitioned into service.

You will lead the Continuous Improvement activity, engaging with Customers and Industry to identify, scope and enact improvements to ensure continuous improvement in contracted outputs in support of operational delivery.

You will lead the management of Industry transformation activity, ensuring benefit realisation is correct and can be reconciled through to the contracts.

You will lead and co-ordinate with other SDG Senior Performance Managers, other FMSP contracts (Submarine Engineering, Ships Engineering and Warehousing & Distribution) and Industry to ensure the contracted cross lot Government Furnished Assets (GFA) Service is delivered in accordance with the Hard FM & ALS Contract GFA Service deliverables.

You will provide support to and data analysis in support of the FMSP Operational Coordination Board and to the HMNB Clyde Service Delivery Integration Group, acting as deputy to Assistant Head SDG at these and any other Governance Boards, as required.

You will be a user of FMSP contract management systems, ensuring information contained within is updated, correct, authorised etc., and provide data analysis, as required, to support governance processes.

You will provide input into the monthly consolidation and reporting of all contract performance and financial information, together with commentary and explanation of variances, recovery plans, continuous improvement, transformation, benefits tracking etc, to support the SDG and HMNB Clyde Governance and Contract Governance, and externally into the Central and Strategic layers.

You will provide cover for Assistant Head SDG and for other contracts managed by the SDG, as required.

Person specification

You will play a pivotal role in leading and embedding FMSP improvements, and therefore you will have a positive approach to change. You will be curious about current ways of working and be open to suggesting improvements.

You will role model a collaborative approach in engaging with stakeholders and be comfortable communicating with individuals of all grades and ranks, military and civilian and Industry Partners.

You will take a holistic approach to working with others, avoiding siloed working, and adopting a 'One Clyde' approach. 

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 and Experience.

Provisional sift date: week commencing 22 Jul.

Provisional Interview dates: week commencing 29 Jul. Interviews will be held in person.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

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.

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

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving

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

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

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

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 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.