DIO-Assistant Project Manager
Ministry of Defence
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Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
Are you looking to build and develop a career in project management?
This is an interesting time to join our diverse, unique and motivated team where we are seeking like-minded and talented individuals. Our roles provide a great sense of achievement and enrichment and an opportunity for supported career development through accomplishing our team's outputs and goals.
Working alongside Project Managers; being willing to adapt to changing priorities whilst developing your professional and tried skills to deliver projects to time, cost and quality; are you up for the challenge?
The Major Programmes and Projects Army facing team is a fast paced environment that supports both the future Army and the broader Defence capabilities of the country by providing a range of facilities for Service Personnel and their families across multiple MOD locations. By delivering sustainable infrastructure we also contribute towards the departmental goal of achieving net zero carbon.
Candidates should be aware that these posts will require travelling to project site locations which can involve overnight stays.
Due to the requirements of the role, these posts are advertised as full-time only.
Person specification
An Assistant Project Manager will:
• Support Project Managers in all aspects of the delivery of various defence infrastructure projects
• Work collaboratively in the application of project and programme management standard methodology including planning, scheduling, financial management, risk management reporting and stakeholder engagement
• Utilise Information Management Systems to ensure appropriate, accurate and timely recording of financial forecasts, milestone payments, schedules, requisitions and invoice payments
• Report timely and accurate project progress using various reporting tools/dashboards
• Engage and work closely across MPP and the wider DIO organisation including Commercial, Finance and Technical Services and alongside industry partners to help deliver projects within time, cost and quality constraints
• The post may provide potential Line Management duties
Desirable Experience & Skills:
- Membership or willingness to obtain membership of an appropriate professional body such as APM, RICS or CIOB
- Understanding of design and construction delivery
- Knowledge or experience of working in either a project, defence or infrastructure environment.
Licences
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) Professional Competence Framework P3M11 – Budgeting and Cost Control - Practiced
- Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) Professional Competence Framework P3M12 – Risk, Opportunity & Issue Management - Awareness
Benefits
- Highly competitive Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Alternative working practices such as working from home.
- Opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
- 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service.
- Enhanced Parental Leave.
- Most sites have free car parking, Sports & Social Clubs, Gym, on site shops and subsidised canteens.
- Alternative working practices such as working from home.
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/.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.
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Selection process details
Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.
At application you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
- Working Together
Experience:
- CV
- Personal Statement (500)
Detail where you have been tasked with delivering a project or key piece of work. How did you overcome any challenges that you faced and what did you do to ensure that the requirements were met.
Where there are a large number of applicants, assessment will be on the Personal Statement only.
At interview you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
- Managing a Quality Service
Technical Competencies:
- P3M11 – Budgeting and Cost Control - Practiced
- P3M12 – Risk, Opportunity & Issue Management - Awareness
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.
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. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.
A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.
To assist with your application please find attached below:
- DIO Candidate Information Guide
- DIO Candidate Information Guide Accessible Version
For help and support with your application check out our https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/Civil Service Careers Homepage and the https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-apply/How to apply section
CANDIDATE INFORMATION
Please read this document prior to completing your application.
Please note: internal candidates must include their staff number when prompted during the application process.
Should you have any queries relating to the vacancy information or sift and interview process, please contact the recruiting line manager using the contact details listed on the vacancy. Please do not direct vacancy related queries to the recruitment team as they will be unable to advise.
FURTHER INFORMATION
CV’s
Should the selection process require a CV, you will be prompted to complete the required criteria during the application process. CV’s sent directly to the recruiting line manager will be deleted immediately to maintain anonymity.
Civil Servants (all grades)
Applicants should monitor their Civil Service Jobs application centre regularly for updates.
Some of MoD’s Terms and Conditions of Service (TACOS) changed from 3 February 2014. Those TACOS changes applied to Broader Banded and Skill Zone staff who were new recruits to MoD or who were appointed to a post on substantive promotion, progression or advancement. On the same basis, the TACOS for Departmental Retained Grades changed with effect from 01 September 2014.
Applicants should be aware that any move across the Civil Service on or after 5 October 2018 may have implications on an employee’s ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers.
Please see link below to Civil Service Recruitment Principles http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RECRUITMENT-PRINCIPLES-April-2018-FINAL-.pdf
Please see the MOD Privacy notice which informs how we will use your personal data, explains your rights and gives you information you are entitled to under Data Protection legislation.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-defence-privacy-notice/mod-privacy-notice
Non Civil Servants
All employees joining MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period effective from the employment start date.
COMPLAINTS
Please be aware that the selection and interviewing of applicants is the responsibility of the Recruiting Line Manager (RLM) and not the Defence Business Services (DBS) Resourcing team. DBS does not play any part in the selection and interview process itself.
Therefore, if you wish to discuss your feedback, or you are dissatisfied with your markings, you should in the first instance raise this with the Recruiting Line Manager of the vacancy.
If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint. by writing to DBS at the following address:
Defence Business Services
Scanning Hub
Room 6124
Tomlinson House
Norcross Lane
Blackpool
FY5 3WP
FOR EXTERNAL VACANCIES If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address:
Civil Service commission
Room G/8
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
Or by email: info@csc.gov.uk
Cabinet Office Fraud Checks
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant whose details are found to be held on the IFD will be refused employment.
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.
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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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).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Alexa Conder
- Email : Alexa.Conder100@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
Further information
info@csc.gov.uk.
