Civilian Military Liaison Officer
Ministry of Defence
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 4th November 2024
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Job summary
This is a challenging and rewarding job at the British Forces South Atlantic Islands military headquarters in the Falkland Islands. The role provides the job holder with excellent career development opportunities through working in a unique operational environment, safeguarding the relationship with a wide variety of stakeholders. Stakeholder relations are important enablers for our military activity across the Islands. This is a high profile job with regular direct liaison with Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands (Brigadier rank).
The Commander’s mission is to deter any military aggression against the South Atlantic Overseas Territories (Falkland Islands, South Georgian and South Sandwich Islands and Ascension island), to protect the Falkland Islanders’ right to self-determination and to reassure the local population.
This post is part of the Command Secretariat, a small team of Civil Servants and locally employed civilians who deliver key roles in supporting business management, policy work and stakeholder engagement across the Command. The geographic location, political circumstances and broad community in the Falkland Islands make this an exceptional posting and provides an excellent opportunity to deliver outcomes in a challenging environment, supporting Defence and His Majesty’s Government’s wider objectives.
This key role supports the Command Secretary by managing relations with a wide variety of stakeholders from local landowners to the Falkland Islands Government, providing advice and guidance to military stakeholders across British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI).
Tour length: 2-years, possible 1-year extension. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
Key responsibilities for the post holder include:
- Provide advice on stakeholder engagement matters to the Commander and the Command Group to ensure engagement best supports wider Defence and HM Government priorities enabling sound decision making by senior management.
- Maintain regular contact with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Falkland Islands Government and external agencies/ bodies in the Falkland Islands to ensure cohesion and integration for engagement activity.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with local landowners to enable successful patrols and exercises by military personnel, while developing targeted programmes of engagement activity to enhance and improve these relationships through a stakeholder matrix.
- Initial Point of Contact for engagement between the military and civilian population of the Falkland Islands, working with BFSAI stakeholders to develop responses to queries. Engage with community groups and organisations to promote BFSAI interests.
- Provide advice on local media engagement to the Media Officer, ensuring that messaging supports wider Defence and considers local issues and concerns.
- Interface between the HQ and Defence Infrastructure Organisation on land agreements in the Falkland Islands.
- Work with the resident Army units to plan and prepare activity including briefing all personnel on a range of issues surrounding interaction with the civilian population.
- Represent the Command at meetings/activities to support the delivery of Overseas Assistance in the event of an emergency. This includes the provision of wider policy, secretariat and operational support to the Command Secretariat team when required to support wider Headquarters priorities and objectives.
- Provide advice and support to MOD personnel on appropriate conduct, specific to the Falkland Islands which protect and preserve the Command’s reputation.
Person specification
The ideal candidate will be a confident communicator with a clear communication style to seniors and colleagues of all ranks. You will have a proven track record of managing diverse stakeholders as you will need to be able to develop effective relationships with a large, diverse group of military and civilian stakeholders across Defence and the Falkland Islands community. Key to this role is the ability to listen to people and sift information to allow effective decisions to be made and accurate advice to be provided.
The post demands high degrees of self-motivation and integrity, the successful applicant will be a resilient individual who can work efficiently and effectively in a remote work location. You should be prepared to be out and about across the Falkland Islands where conditions may not be as comfortable as in the UK. Flexibility and adaptability are important as some activity takes place outside normal working hours.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Seeing the Big Picture
Benefits
- Cost of Overseas Living Allowance
- Operational Deployment Allowance (£6,000 pa)
- Full relocation expenses
- Accommodation (according to individual circumstances).
- Annual return flights to the UK and South America (Chile)
- The successful candidate may be eligible for Education/Schooling Allowances
- 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%
- Mount Pleasant Complex also offers a wide range of recreation facilities including gym, swimming pool, go karting, indoor climbing, indoor driving range, shops, and internet café.
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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 and Maritime Skills and Competency Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profiles, and the Maritime Skills Competency Framework elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.
Please provide your evidence using STAR technique.
Situation: Describe the situation you found yourself in. You must describe a specific event or situation. Be sure to give enough detail for the panel to understand:
Where you are?
Who was there with you?
What had happened?
Task: The recruitment panel will want to understand what you were trying to achieve from the situation you found yourself in.
What was the task that you had to complete, and why?
What did you have to achieve?
Action: What did you do? The panel will be looking for information of what you did, how you did it and why. Keep the focus on you. What specific steps did you take, and what was your contribution? Remember to include how you did it, and the behaviours you used. Try to use ‘I’, rather than we. to explain your actions that lead to the result. Be careful not to take credit for something that you did not do.
Result: Don’t be shy about taking credit for your behaviour. Quote specific facts and figures that are easily understandable:
What results did the actions produce?
What did you achieve through your actions, and did you meet your goals?
Was it a successful outcome? If not, what did you learn from the experience?
Keep the situation and Task parts brief. Concentrate on the action and the result, if the result was not entirely successful describe what you learned from this and what you would do differently next time. Make sure you focus on your strengths. When providing your evidence please ensure that you avoid acronyms, and company specific jargon.
Interviews will take place on date to be confirmed. A reserve list will be held for 12 months after the conclusion of this recruitment activity.
Experience
Candidates should provide a CV outlining their Job History. As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement, of no more than 750 words outlining your suitability for the role and how your experience fits with the person specification.
When writing your Personal Statement, it is important that you:
Read the job specification, so that you are sure about the job requirements.
Outline the skills and experience that you have that are relevant to the person specification and job; use examples to help demonstrate this.
Keep to the word limit, if your statement is too brief, it will not provide the required depth of detail and evidence to be assessed fully.
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.
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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 : Rosanna Hibbert
- Email : rosanna.hibbert435@mod.gov.uk
- Telephone : 0050074306
Recruitment team
- Email : DBSCivPers-ResourcingTeam1@mod.gov.uk
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