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Defence Digital Associate Product Manager
Defence Digital
Rudloe
Hybrid
GBP 30,000
Part time
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Job summary
Defence Digital seeks an Associate Product Manager to enhance Business Rigour Services. The role involves collaborating with teams to drive improvement, supporting Agile practices, and managing essential tools. Ideal candidates will have effective communication skills and a proactive approach to learning.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Understanding Agile practices is essential.
- Experience in building and managing stakeholders is necessary.
Responsibilities
- Support compliance with Agile ceremonies and reporting.
- Manage a shared mailbox and prioritise workload.
- Advise users on Defence Digital’s processes.
Skills
Job description
Defence Digital ensures our Armed Forces remain among the most technologically advanced in the world. We do this by putting innovative and effective technology into the hands of over 200,000 users, from the boardroom to the front line.
We lead on cutting-edge data science, automation, and cyber security at scale. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield by leading humanitarian efforts and driving digital innovation that impacts lives across the globe.
Defence Digital forms part of Strategic Command which manages the MOD’s joint capabilities for the Army, RAF, and Royal Navy.
Watch our video to see what we do at Defence Digital!
Passionate about using your skills to make a critical difference? Your next career move could be here!
Join a dynamic team, where you'll help shape and deliver our Business Rigour Services. From configuring policies and processes to maintaining essential templates, you'll play a key role in driving consistent, meaningful change across the organisation.
Collaborating with experts across the Portfolio Team, you'll champion a risk-based approach to assess and strengthen Business Rigour maturity across our delivery areas, ensuring we stay sharp, aligned, and effective.
You'll also be instrumental in managing corporate tools and coordinating our continuous improvement backlog, helping to prioritise and allocate work that keeps us evolving. This includes updating key portfolio policies and standards to ensure they stay relevant and support the modern delivery methods used across Defence Digital.
In this role you will:
- Support the Business Rigour Service Owner with ensuring the teams compliance, with Agile ceremonies and reporting, including the planning of pre-planning and end of sprint reporting.
- Work across organisational boundaries, with guidance and mentorship, to support agenda management and act as secretariat for Defence Digital’s working groups.
- Manage a busy shared mailbox, prioritising workload to ensure service level agreements are consistently met.
- Adviseusers on Defence Digital’s processes and working practices, delivering support through email and one-to-one interactions.
- Support the administration of corporate tools and the creation of user accounts.
- On-boarding of personnel onto DDPT led courses.
Your role emphasises the importance of addressing the right challenges in the most effective manner, and ensuring that the products produced, are not only comprehensible but also highly valued by users.
For further information on the role and duties of an Associate Product Manager, please refer to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework:Product manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
We seek a driven, enthusiastic, and self-assured individual with outstanding communication abilities, a positive outlook, and has a proactive approach to learning. The ideal candidate will exhibit a growth-oriented mindset, showing a keen interest in Agile methodologies and personal development.
Working alongside diverse teams, you will collaborate to integrate their perspectives, user requirements, and business objectives in defining the problem at hand. The perfect candidate will showcase a practical focus on precision, possessing the flexibility to adjust as needed, and will thrive in a dynamic and intricate work setting.
When submitting your CV, highlight your relevant career experience. In addition, refer to the “Things You Need to Know” section and provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words)demonstrating the following essential criteria:
- Please explain your awareness and understanding of Agile practices.
- Describe your experience in building, managing, and influencing stakeholder relationships to achieve successful outcomes.
Please note that this post is a job share, working 22.5 hours per week over 3 days. However, working patterns are negotiable and can be discussed at interview.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Developing Self and Others
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- User Focus
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
- Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year
- In addition to 8 public holidays per year you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday
- Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
- Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
- Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being
- Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club and Gyms
- Benefit Pension Scheme:Civil Service pension
- Please see Benefits link for more info:Civilian Discover My Benefits (mod.gov.uk)
- 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.
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Defence Digital. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.
Professional Framework Statement
Defence Digital operates an organisation model in which every individual belongs to a Government Profession. The successful applicant will be posted into one of the defined Government Professions on Standard Terms of Reference for the grade. Defence Digital reserves the right to move individuals between roles, within their allocated profession, to meet the needs of the business and in support of agile resourcing. Within Defence Digital each profession is led by a Professional Head of Community who will lead professional development and support the Continuous Professional Development path for their group.
Learning & Development
In Defence Digital we have a strong learning and development ethos, supporting you to fulfil your potential by providing:
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- Professional and Personal Development of skills
- Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by MOD
- Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by MOD
Hybrid Working
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. Please note that this post is a job share, working 22.5 hours per week over three days. However, working patterns are negotiable and can be discussed at interview.
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.
- 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 Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.
To apply please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, ensuring your CV highlights your relevance to the essential criteria.
All applicants will also need to provide a personal statement(max. 1250 words) and it is vital that this includes evidence of the essential criteria (which is also listed within the Person Specification). Each one will be scored 1-7 and make up part of your overall score to assess your suitability to be invited to interview.
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We’ll assess you against these Behaviours and Technical Skills during the interview:
Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Developing Self and Others
Technical Skills:
- User Focus
Further information:
Please note, that if you are selected for an interview, it will be via Teams and we will try and offer as much flexibility as we can, but it may not be possible to offer alternative dates for interviews or assessments.
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 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.
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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 theEuropean 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
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission'srecruitment principles (opens in a new window).
- Name :Defence Digital Talent Acquisition Team
- Email :UKStratComDD-HR-TalentAcqDel@mod.gov.uk
- Email :DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
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