About the job

Job summary

RAF High Wycombe is the home of the 4* Headquarters for the Royal Air Force. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for making a positive contribution to all those working at High Wycombe. Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships that promote collaboration between a range of stakeholders that support continual improvement. 

The role of OC Station Support Flight provides a vital output in support of the Base Support Squadron. The post primarily focusses on the management of the Accommodation Cell and their output, but it also has a key coordination and communication role across BSS, straddling accommodation, establishments, parenting and postal services in a customer facing role. The successful applicant will provide Line Management to the Accommodation Cell and Postal Services team and the station Admin Support Assistant who all have vital roles at RAF High Wycombe.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

OC Station Support Flight will:

• Provide line management and oversight of the Accommodation Cell Team, and management of the tasks for which they are responsible, including managing waiting lists, non-availability Certificates and March-In and Out of Single Living Accommodation
• Be responsible for the configuration and co-ordination of the Establishments process across the 3 sites in support of OC Base Support Squadron and engage with the Office Moves process.
• Provide line management and oversight of the Postal Services team and the Station Admin Support Assistant and management of the tasks for which they are responsible.
• Assisting with the maintenance of an open and collaborative working relationship with the Change Management Board.
• Maintain and review the RAF Hight Wycombe Parenting Statement
• Act as the focal point for collation and communication of feedback and updates into and out of Base Support Squadron.
• Carry out such other reasonable tasks as directed by OC Base Support Squadron.

Person specification

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and manage teams
• Ability to deal with and manage conflicting priorities.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with key stakeholders
• Ability to analyse data and produce recommendations
• Ability to cope well under pressure, be flexible and assertive.
• Proficient in the use of all MS office products.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 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.

An initial sift will be undertaken on the behaviours listed. Applicants who meet the desired criteria will be invited for an in person interview at RAF High Wycombe. The interview will also be based on the behaviours.

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and influencing
• Making effective decisions 
• Managing a quality service 

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and influencing
• Making effective decisions 
• Managing a quality service 

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

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.