About the job

Job summary

Do you want to work in support of the Royal Navy in Scotland?

The Senior Requirements Manager role is part of a small Navy Command team at HM Naval Base Clyde, delivering infrastructure solutions, in support of the Royal Navy’s current and future capabilities in Scotland.  This includes new build security, accommodation, training and office facilities, refurbishing of existing facilities and capabilities and, demolition of redundant facilities to shape the future naval support in Scotland.

This role presents a great opportunity to develop an exciting and rewarding career within the Civil Service. Working alongside civilian and military colleagues, you will make a difference, by helping to deliver the infrastructure capabilities necessary to support the Royal Navy in its task of protecting the nation’s interests.

As well as great job satisfaction in this role, you can expect:

• The ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications.
• The payment of professional accreditation fees.
• The opportunity to develop Professional and Personal skills.
• The offer of flexible working arrangements including flexi time and hybrid working.

Job description

The position offers an exciting opportunity for an individual with good presentation, leadership and management skills and an ability to communicate clearly to guide and influence a wide range of teams to support delivery of critical military capabilities.

Working as part of the project team, the role leads on the collection, challenge, verification and funding of infrastructure requirements ensuring the outputs adhere to Navy Command’s processes and operating procedures.

As the Senior Requirements Manager you will work closely with a broad range of customers, delivery and scrutiny team members. You will ensure infrastructure projects are accurately defined and funded, and delivered safely, securely, and effectively. This includes developing infrastructure requirements documents, identifying options, analysing and down selecting options, developing preferred options, and producing, reviewing and submitting business case documentation.

A key part of the role will be the production of coherent and consistent business cases and to work with the Project Team to generate the required supporting documents and evidence. You will engage with Ministry of Defence scrutiny teams to agree and review evidence prior to the agreed business case submission date. You will be required to identify relevant factors which may affect each business case approval by analysing evidence with the project team to ensure this meets the required standard.

Line Management responsibility for one member of staff.

Person specification

The successful applicant will have the following:

• Strong organisational skills.
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• The ability to work under pressure.
• The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team.

It would be desirable for candidates to hold a suitable professional qualification i.e. APMP, MSP etc. or be willing to undertake a professional qualification once in the role.

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, Experience and Technical skills.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (Success Profiles - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework and the Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) Professional Competency Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile and the P3M Professional Competency Framework elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

 Please provide your evidence using the STAR Technique using the attached information on how to apply.

Situation: Describe the situation you found yourself in. You must describe a specific event or situation. Be sure to give enough detail for the job holder to understand. Where are you? Who was there with you? What had happened?

Task: The recruitment panel will want to understand what you tried to achieve from the situation you found yourself in. What was the task that you had to complete and why? What did you have to achieve?

Action: What did you do? The recruitment panel will be looking for information of what you did, how you did it and why. Keep the focus on you. What specific steps did you take and what was your contribution? Remember to include how you did it, and the behaviours you used. Try to use “I” rather than “we” to explain your actions that lead to the result. Be careful not to take credit for something that you did not do.

Result: Don’t be shy about taking credit for your behaviour. Quote specific facts and figures easily understandable. What results did the actions produce? What did you achieve through your actions, and did you meet your goals? Was it a successful outcome? If not, what did you learn from the experience? Keep the situation and task parts brief.

Concentrate on the action and the result. If the result was not entirely successful describe what you learned from this and what you would do differently next time. Make sure you focus on your strengths. When providing your evidence please ensure that you avoid acronyms and company specific jargon.

At Application you will be assessed against the following:

Experience:

CV - detailing Job History, Previous Skills and Experience

Personal Statement - As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement of 750 words, the purpose for this, is for you to showcase your relevant skills and experience against the role responsibilities. The statement is your opportunity to give examples of how you fit the requirements of the role.

You will also be assessed on the following behaviours:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

 Technical: Project Management Competence Framework

• Section 7 – Requirements Management
• Section 19 – Stakeholder and Communication Management
• Section 24 – Business Case

We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn't always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing 29 July following closure. Interviews will take place in person and the location will be confirmed with the successful candidates who are invited to an interview and will likely be conducted week commencing 12 August.

A minimum of 5 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

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

Open to UK nationals only.

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.