StratCom - Logistics Project Manager – Storage & Infrastructure (S&I)
Ministry of Defence
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Job summary
Are you a motivated, suitably experienced project/capability management professional, who enjoys working within a fast paced and diverse environment, with a passion to be stretched and challenged with a wide range of varied responsibilities?
As a Capability Manager within the Head of Capability (HoC) Defence Support (DefSp) area, you will be involved in exciting and interesting logistics portfolios covering the Strategic Base joint support capabilities.
DefSp works across the Ministry of Defence Support Network (DSN), to ensure that our Armed Forces are equipped to operate effectively and deliver Support Advantage through the provision of superior, assured, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective logistic services. Each year a third of the Defence budget is spent on logistics. DefSp provides centralised oversight of this joint capability, ensuring the Network operates effectively and delivers value for money for the whole of Defence.
The HoC Support Branch sits within UK Strategic Command but faces DefSp to deliver capabilities as identified through Audit and Investigation outputs. This looks to plug gaps identified across the DSN to ensure that UK Forces can be deployed and sustained during business as usual and periods of exercises and operations.
This role operates within the Strategic Base Storage & Infrastructure pillar, as part of the HoC Support Branch, to manage Defence’s warehousing, infrastructure, storage and breakout capability within the wider Strategic Base, assuring future outload and sustainment of UK forces.
We are a friendly, small Branch split between 2 sites: MOD Abbey Wood and Northwood HQ. There will be a requirement to attend meetings in other locations too.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.
Job description
Coherent capability management of all Munitions and Non-Explosive Storage & Infrastructure across the Strategic Base.
Investigate capabilities and act as the focal point for the Strategic Base Team on Climate Change & Sustainability. The latter is achieved through coordinating and cohering relevant Storage and Infrastructure activity across the Front-Line Commands and Enabling Organisations as appropriate.
Drafting Storage and Infrastructure investment proposals and Annual Budgetary Cycle (ABC) Planning Rounds.
Support the Capability Audit and Investigatory work against Storage and Infrastructure, liaising with Finance Military Capability and other external and internal parties, coordinating input and drafting of reports.
Manage Risk Register outputs from Capability Planning Working Groups and Capability Planning Groups.
Attend and update the Strategic Base S&I Capability Planning Group as required on Capability Investigations, etc.
Act as the lead focal point and secretary for Storage and Infrastructure Capability Planning Working Groups.
Person specification
The individual should have awareness of Defence and some experience of Project/Portfolio work that will enable them to manage multiple outputs simultaneously. They will be comfortable building relationships across Defence wide stakeholders in their area of work, to ensure new projects are cohered appropriately.
The successful candidate will bring experience and understanding of capability, programme and project management. Taking ownership of projects, they will ensure business outputs for Strategic Base projects are developed and delivered.
You will support the Storage & Infrastructure Lead in the coherence of joint support capabilities and will be responsible for supporting agreed Defence Support capability programmes.
Possessing excellent communication skills, you will provide service and advise to the Head of Capability, Defence Support, Front Line Commands and Enabling Organisations to ensure coherence across Strategic Base.
We are therefore seeking a highly motivated individual who delivers results.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
Benefits
Some of the many benefits you will receive:
- Highly competitive pension scheme.
- Flexi-time scheme upon completion of 6 months service or the Line Manager has the ability to adopt flexible working sooner than the 6 month period.
- With Line Manager agreement move to an alternative Working Patterns (there are 9).
- 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service. If by chance you have previously completed service in the Public Sector in the past 5 years, you may be eligible to request 30 days leave immediately. (Evidence will be required).
- In addition to annual leave you will be entitled to 8 Public Bank Holidays per year.
- Professional and Personal Development.
- Opportunity to join more than one of our many networks (Race, LGBT+, Gender, Disability and Faith & Belief).
- Minimum of 18 Days Special Paid Leave in a rolling 12-month period for Public Duties commitments (such as a Magistrate).
- Special Paid Leave for community volunteering up to 12 days a year for Special Constables and 6 days a year for other volunteering.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
- MOD Abbey Wood South has good travel links with free car parking, cafes, a restaurant, sports facilities, green and pleasant surroundings, and a short walk from the Abbey Wood Shopping Park.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
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Selection process details
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 500-word statement of suitability. Detailing the following essential experience. Please use examples to demonstrate your experience of:
- Programme/Project Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Risk Management
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.
At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
You will be asked to provide a 250-word statement per Behaviour.
If a large number of applications are received, they will be assessed initially against the Communicating & Influencing behaviour and your CV and Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement). You will then be assessed against the other criteria if you have met the minimum scores.
If your written application is successful, you will be invited to a face-to-face and or virtual via MS Teams interview.
At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
It is highly recommended you focus by providing one example for each behaviour. We would also advise you to use examples that best meet the criteria, even if they are a few years old, using the STAR methodology.
Situation: Briefly describe the background of the situation in which you found yourself.
Task: What you were required to do/chose to do.
Action: What actions you undertook to achieve the tasks. Make sure to use “I”, not “we” to explain how your actions led to results.
Result: Use facts and evidence to demonstrate the results that your actions produced. Explain whether it was a successful outcome, and if not, what you learned from the experience.
Sift to take place within 2 weeks of Advert closing followed by the Interviews which are likely to take place within 2 weeks of Sift.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
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 in to 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. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It 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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Miriam Butson - Storage & Infrastructure Lead
- Email : Miriam.Butson100@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
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