Director of Resources/Finance, Air Command

Ministry of Defence

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 27th October 2024

 
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Details

Reference number

372215

Salary

£100,000
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD - Air

Type of role

Finance
Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

High Wycombe, with regular travel to MOD Main Building in Whitehall, RAF Stations and MOD sites across the country.

Job summary

The Director of Resources/Finance, Air Command sits on the Air Force Main Board and Executive Committee, providing advice to the Chief of the Air Staff on all aspects of RAF and Air Command governance including delivering the RAF Strategy consistent with the direction of Ministers and the agreed ten-year budget.

The Director of Resources/Finance, Air Command leads a team of c200 people, based at High Wycombe and is the most senior Civil Servant working with the Royal Air Force and provides a key link between Air Command and the Ministry of Defence’s Head Office under Defence’s operating model.

Please also take a moment to watch a welcome video message from Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton providing a brief overview of the role and its part to play within the Royal Air Force: https://youtu.be/JdNXM_gtFqk

Job description

The current responsibilities of the role include:

  • Professional Leadership of the 4500 Civil Servants in Air Command.
  • Leadership and line management of mixed civilian and military teams, delivering professional financial, secretariat, business and personnel support, and commercial expertise. This includes continuing to deliver the Department’s Finance and Commercial functional leadership programmes within the Air Command context and engaging with the wider government functions.
  • Exercising control on behalf of the Chief of the Air Staff to ensure delivery within Air Command’s agreed annual budget. This requires scrutiny and control of operating budgets including people, infrastructure and equipment, the latter split between equipment procurement and equipment support, ensuring correct accounting treatment and appropriate spending decisions.
  • Leading the financial relationship with Defence Equipment & Support on equipment procurement and support, new including oversight of key RAF current and future capabilities.
  • Chairing Air Command’s Investment Approval Committee with personal delegated responsibility for the approval of projects with a whole life cost of up to £400m.
  • Delivering the Air Command Top Level Budget within delegated annual control totals including the realisation of circa £4.3bn of efficiencies over 10 years, cutting across major areas of Air’s activity and driving delivery of change across Air Command.
  • Oversight of the Secretariat’s delivery of Parliamentary and Ministerial business.
  • Acting as a role model in leadership across the Ministry of Defence where we expect all our senior leaders to be:
  1. Inspiring about our work and its future
  2. Confident in our engagement
  3. Empowering our teams to deliver

Person specification

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their experience and skills against the following essential criteria:

  • Highly developed inclusive senior leadership skills including the ability to inspire and engage high performing and geographically dispersed teams, together with strong evidence of having led people through change and of the ability to work successfully at board level;
  • The ability to command the confidence and trust of board level stakeholders from military and civilian backgrounds, including sensitive issues or where opinions are divided;
  • Evidence of strategic thinking, excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate current challenges into a global defence and security context;
  • Significant experience in policy implementation and workforce considerations in strategic decision making;
  • Robust financial skills, with the ability to deliver financial management improvement, and the ability to maximise resource efficiency and drive value for money improvements within a large, complex setting;
  • Hold a CCAB or equivalent professional finance qualification.
Alongside your salary of £100,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £28,970 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Selection process details

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process no later than 23:55 Sunday 27th October 2024 and will involve providing the two documents outlined below via the Civil Service Jobs portal:

  • A CV (no more than 2 pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
  • A Personal Statement (no more than 2 pages) explaining how your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role. 

Both documents are weighted equally in their scoring, so it's important to consider this when uploading your application. Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. 

For further information about the role and full application process, please refer to the candidate pack attached below. If you wish to receive any material in a different format for accessibility, then please contact People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton will also be offering an online Q&A session on Friday 18th October between 11:00 - 11:45 to provide an overview of the role and welcome any questions you may have. Candidates can access the meeting by clicking here. Please note this is not part of the formal assessment process.  



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (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

Open to UK nationals only.

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : SCS Recruitment Team
  • Email : People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk

Attachments

Director of Resources & Finance Air Command Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 2341kB)

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