Assistant Head Networks, Data, and Portfolio, Diversity and Inclusion Team

UK Ministry of Defence; Offenbach am Main; Vor Ort; GBP 60.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The UK Ministry of Defence is seeking a skilled leader for a challenging Team Leader role in the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Team. You will oversee a mixed military and civilian team, ensuring strategic delivery across multiple functions while engaging with a variety of stakeholders to drive success in D&I initiatives. This position requires strong leadership, problem-solving abilities, and strategic insight, offering a salary of £59,690 alongside substantial employer contributions to a Civil Service pension.

Leistungen

Civil Service Pension Contribution

Flexible Working Options

Learning and Development Opportunities

Qualifikationen

• Skilled leader with experience in military or diverse teams.
• Familiarity with parliamentary business or policy drafting.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines.

Aufgaben

• Lead three teams in the D&I program.
• Manage stakeholders and ensure governance in public spending.
• Draft advice and reports under tight schedules.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Communication

Ausbildung

P3M Qualification (MSP, MOP, Agile)

Jobbeschreibung

Ministry of Defence, Main Building

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to lead three diverse teams within the D&I Team. It is a fast paced and challenging role where every day is different. You will be required to possess sound judgement, make strategic linkages, and have skilled drafting ability. You will manage a mixed military/civilian team of seven.

This is an exciting and bold time to be working in D&I. We are under significant scrutiny and regularly draft notes for ministers at great pace. We work significantly with our Cross Government colleagues, learning from others and sharing best practice.

We are an innovative and supportive team delivering at pace, in a constantly evolving environment. Working together we develop D&I policies and deliver the D&I portfolio.

This B2/ Grade 7 appointment is a challenging role, and we are looking for an experienced leader, who is a strategic thinker and can deliver at pace, changing direction quickly as required.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job Description

You will be responsible for three teams:

• The Defence Network Team.
• The D&I Data Team
• The D&I Portfolio team.
  
  

You will work with multiple collaborators within Defence, across government and external organisations. Role responsibilities include:

Network

• Network lead, implementation of new network structure as detailed in JSP 890.
• Support the Network champions with the implementation of the new structure, their recruitment and implementation of D&I programme boards.
• Manage the networks’ communications, forward look, and business cases. Build an accurate financial picture for the networks. Ensure that governance and propriety of public spending is adhered to.
• Draft advice to senior stakeholders, accurately and at pace when required.
• Be the D&I rep at several internal network forums and cross-government meetings.
  
  

Data

• Lead the data team ensuring that D&I Levels of Ambition are accurately reported and progress is demonstrated.
• Ensure that all requests for data support including parliamentary business, FOIs and HCDC are processed within required timescales.
• Guide the data team to manage conflicting requests and step in when difficult decisions must be made.
• Supervise the liaison between the Analysis Directorate and the D&I Team.
• Provide the senior stakeholder engagement between the Data Team and the Department.
  
  

Portfolio

• Lead the D&I Portfolio to ensure that all D&I programmes are established with P3M principles.
• Ensure the production of the D&I benefits and risk responses.
• Adhere to good governance and oversee the implementation of a programme board for each D&I programme. Ensure that governance is consistent across all D&I programmes.
• Provide oversight for the 2* D&I Board where the Portfolio Team provides the secretariat function.
• Lead the Portfolio team to provide monthly updates on Project online.
• Provide oversight for the D&I team monthly team meetings where the Portfolio Team provides the secretariat function.
• Ensure programme managers are fully forward deployed into their respective programmes and delivering progress against challenging objectives.
  
  

Leadership

• Lead a mixed military and civilian team to deliver the above outputs.
• Be part of the D&I senior leadership team, including financial planning, reward and recognition, and horizon scanning.
• Deputise for DH D&I when required.
  
  

You Will Be Responsible For Three Teams

• The Defence Network Team.
• The D&I Data Team
• The D&I Portfolio team.
  
  

You will work with multiple collaborators within Defence, across government and external organisations. Role responsibilities include:

Network

• Network lead, implementation of new network structure as detailed in JSP 890.
• Support the Network champions with the implementation of the new structure, their recruitment and implementation of D&I programme boards.
• Manage the networks’ communications, forward look, and business cases. Build an accurate financial picture for the networks. Ensure that governance and propriety of public spending is adhered to.
• Draft advice to senior stakeholders, accurately and at pace when required.
• Be the D&I rep at several internal network forums and cross-government meetings.
  
  

Data

• Lead the data team ensuring that D&I Levels of Ambition are accurately reported and progress is demonstrated.
• Ensure that all requests for data support including parliamentary business, FOIs and HCDC are processed within required timescales.
• Guide the data team to manage conflicting requests and step in when difficult decisions must be made.
• Supervise the liaison between the Analysis Directorate and the D&I Team.
• Provide the senior stakeholder engagement between the Data Team and the Department.
  
  

Portfolio

• Lead the D&I Portfolio to ensure that all D&I programmes are established with P3M principles.
• Ensure the production of the D&I benefits and risk responses.
• Adhere to good governance and oversee the implementation of a programme board for each D&I programme. Ensure that governance is consistent across all D&I programmes.
• Provide oversight for the 2* D&I Board where the Portfolio Team provides the secretariat function.
• Lead the Portfolio team to provide monthly updates on Project online.
• Provide oversight for the D&I team monthly team meetings where the Portfolio Team provides the secretariat function.
• Ensure programme managers are fully forward deployed into their respective programmes and delivering progress against challenging objectives.
  
  

Leadership

• Lead a mixed military and civilian team to deliver the above outputs.
• Be part of the D&I senior leadership team, including financial planning, reward and recognition, and horizon scanning.
• Deputise for DH D&I when required.
  
  

Person specification

• Be a skilled and experienced leader who has previously led diverse teams through challenging times.
• Be a self-starter, with initiative and problem-solving skills to deliver not only your own projects but also support the successful delivery of the work led by your team.
• Have significant personal resilience.
• Be a qualified P3M professional.
• Be an experienced drafter familiar with responding to Parliamentary business and Freedom of Information requests.
• Have proven success in developing and maintaining excellent relationships across Defence and other Government Departments with the ability to influence, change and impact decisions through those relationships.
• Have an ability to work at pace and deal with several priority issues to competing deadlines.
• Be comfortable reviewing and managing data.
• Have an awareness of financial propriety and appropriate use of managing public funds.
• Be a key strategic thinker who can see the aggregated risks but also be comfortable in the detail.
• Possess sound political acumen.
  
  

Essential Criteria

• The Job holder should be a skilled and experienced leader who can demonstrate that they have led teams through challenging times. Experience of leading Military colleagues is desirable.
• Role model exemplary leadership behaviours.
• Have a P3M qualification i.e. MSP, MOP, Agile.
• Significant personal resilience.
• Experience of parliamentary business or drafting policy.
• Proven experience of working under pressure and delivering against challenging deadlines.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise workload when faced with tight timelines, competing priorities and able to work at pace.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and experience of engaging and influencing senior stakeholders to drive decision making.
• Experience of working with and reviewing data.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working with people data.
• Awareness of financial propriety.
  
  

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
  
  

Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 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%
  
  

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.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

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 statement of suitability (500 words max).

At sift, you will be assessed against your CV, statement of suitability and the following Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
  
  

In the event of a large number of applicants the sift will be conducted on CV, statement of suitability and the Leadership behaviour.

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 interview, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
  
  

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: [e-mail] .

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.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

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.

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
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.

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 : Rebecca Berrett
• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. 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. 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: [e-mail].