About the job

Job summary

Location

Navy Infrastructure is based at Navy Command HQ (NCHQ) in Portsmouth, with offices at HMNB Devonport, and RNAS Yeovilton.  Other locations will be considered, and wherever you are based, flexible and remote working is encouraged. This role will require frequent travel to Navy sites in the UK, including regular visits to NCHQ.   

About Navy Command 

NCHQ is the nerve centre of the Naval Service. It supports operations around the globe and provides the ships, people, aircraft and equipment to deliver the UK’s defence policy. The NCHQ supports all the Royal Navy’s activities from front-line operations to personnel support and training, infrastructure support, finance and governance; safety; equipment acquisition; programmes and planning; and Defence Engagement. Civil Servants and Armed Forces personnel work together in a wealth of interesting and challenging jobs in different disciplines, from infrastructure support, finance; legal services; personnel and HR; project planning and managing contracts, to media and communications 

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The Navy Command Infrastructure team is focused on improving the experience of the military, civil service and industry partner staff who live, work, train and operate from the estate.  We do this by providing the advice required to make quick decisions and then driving through to pacey delivery.  This requires a collaborative approach with colleagues elsewhere in the HQ, at Navy establishments, in the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, and from our industry partners.  And a Continuous Improvement mindset too. 

Headed by a Navy Commodore (1*) the team is mainly civil service with a smattering of Naval Reserves.  In common with other areas of the HQ, the Infrastructure Team is shortly to adopt Agile/Scrum ways of working.  Training for this will be provided – in fact all team members are encouraged to allocate 10% of their time to personal and professional development. 

HQ team are looking to recruit Infrastructure delivery and asset manager (IDAM) to supplement the current team. The IDAM role combine elements of the perhaps more familiar Capability Manager and Requirements Manager.  Those already in post describe the role as responsible, varied, engaging and fulfilling.      

This IDAM post has three core deliverables:  

Delivery of Minor and Major Projects requirements >£1m, from Concept, through Delivery, to Completion via the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) supply chain. Working with the End User and DIO, this is the lead for requirement setting, owning and updating project artefacts (User Requirements documents, Strategic Outline Case, Integrated Assurance & Approvals Plan (IAAP), Business Case etc), performance reporting, risk management, and the delivery of benefits of the infrastructure change programmes on handover to the customer. As part of an integrated project team, the IDAM assist in defining, developing and delivering military Infrastructure requirements arising from prioritised Statements of Need (identified capability gaps or opportunities), ensuring that they are taut, aligned with policy, and engineered to deliver value for money.  
  

The HQ IDAM role is responsible for updating and managing the Infra line of development for Capability Boards, and Equipment Programmes e.g. Type 26, MHC, FSS etc This entails significant engagement with Senior leaders across the Command and other  Top Level Budgets (TLB’s) to positively challenge the Performance, Time, Cost and Risks to ensure the Infrastructure Line of Development (ILOD) is represented to the various Navy Command Senior Responsible Owners (NC SRO’s.)  

Supporting and leading on development and delivery of Asset Management principles across the entire estate within all aspects of work. Along side this, being the Sustainability lead for the Naval Infrastructure enterprise, working with other TLB’s, Financial Military Capability (FMC), DIO, and external industry partners to provide direction and guidance to all Navy Estates teams and to assist the HQ Strategy team in embedding Net Zero and Sustainable delivery in the strategic headmark.  

As part of our ongoing commitment to continuous improvement, some aspects of the role may change as we continue to meet the needs of our customers.

Person specification

This is fast paced and challenging role. To be successful you need to proactively prioritise demanding workload, initiating, and taking work forward, often to tight deadlines, and covering a wide range of issues. You need to be self-motivated, resilient, and work calmly under pressure, using good judgement to work with others to achieve delivery.

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.

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

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. (750 Words)

We will you asses you against these behaviours and competencies during the selection process.  

Behaviours: 

Included within Application 

• Managing a Quality Service 
• Delivering at Pace 
• Leadership 

Behaviours during Interview  

• Making Effective Decisions 
• Working Together 
• Change and Improvement 

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

 Experience (Highly desirable):  

• Understanding of Defence Infrastructure is highly desirable 
• Knowledge of Defence and/ or Navy Command Approvals Process is highly desirable 
• Knowledge of Sustainability, the Green Agenda, and Net Zero is highly desirable.   

L2 Competences:  

• P3M07 Requirements Management
• P3M12 Risk, Opportunity and Issue Management    
• P3M19 Stakeholder, Communications and Engagement

Desirable (to be attained in post) 

• Association of Project Managers Professional (APMP)  

Candidates selected for interview will be asked to prepare a 5 min verbal presentation on How would you support a high performing team? Where the applicant will be required to provide evidence on Making Effective Decisions, Working Together & Collaboration and Change and Improvement.   

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

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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.