About the job

Job summary

The Develop Directorate acts as the thought leaders for the RN, leading the development of the Royal Navy’s future warfighting capability and acting as the Design Authority for RN capabilities of the future to achieve the optimum mix of present and future warfighting technologies for a modern, global and ready Royal Navy.

Develop is divided into five parts, Strategic Force Development, Capability Sponsor, UWB, Shipbuilding and NavyX.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The DEVELOP Directorate is large and complex, covering Force Development, Capability Sponsorship, Programme Delivery and Capability Planning. Due to the size and span of the Directorate the Business Management Team is required to support all functional business activities, programme management and governance as well as overseeing ‘business as usual’ elements of capability output.

Responsibilities

Support the Business Support Services Lead and Delivery Manager in all tasks required to provide a professional service across the Develop Directorate, including but not limited to:

• Facilities management activities
• Internal Health & Safety activities
• Information Technology requirements
• Internal Events Management e.g. Staff Away Days
• Security

Be accountable for the information process within Develop Directorate, delivering all Information Management aspects across the Directorate, including but not limited to:

• Develop, maintain and manage the Directorate’s electronic working areas, managing top level changes to structure and access permissions to ensure they meet business needs and comply with information security policies
• Work closely with individuals and with team Information Management Officers to ensure that information is being captured, stored, distributed, used, and disposed of appropriately
• Draft and maintain all required Information Management processes within the Directorate, identifying and implementing improvements as necessary
• Coordinate the regular and timely review of paper and electronic records, ensuring that reviews are carried out in accordance with the instructions issued
• Support the Senior Information Officer (SIO) with all information assurance activities, compliance checks and returns
• Providing advice and guidance on Information Management activities
• Represent the Directorate at Information Management Forums and working groups as required

Act as the main point of contact for all Communications & Engagement activities, including but not limited to:

• Identifying and publishing key information on the Directorate SharePoint in support of Policy, Advice, Guidance and key topics of interest
• Regular analysis of the existing Comms & Engagement Tracker
• Identifying potential communications opportunities from across the Directorate
• Liaison with Royal Navy Communications and Influence (RNC&I)
• Change Advocate Network (CAN) co-ordinator for the Directorate

 Ad hoc activities in support of the Delivery Manager as required across all team functions.

Person specification

Key Skills & Strengths required for the role:

• Adaptable to variations in work or environment and your effectiveness isn’t impacted by change. Must be flexible & versatile to thrive in a busy environment.
• Ability to look for better ways of working and enjoy coming up with new and original ideas to improve.
• Ability to proactively create and maintain positive, professional & trusting working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work to work without supervision, exercise judgement and demonstrate good organisational skills.
• Ability to pay attention to detail whilst also keeping an overview of the wider picture, having a service focus which looks for ways to serve stakeholders understanding their needs and actively aiming to fulfil them.

Must be competent in using MS Office tools; Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Skype, SharePoint & Teams. Previous experience of working within a Business Support/Corporate setting is desirable

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 and Experience.

Candidates are required to complete a 500 word count personal statement alongside competency based questions. These should be answered using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action & Result).

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

 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.