Dasa - Delivery Lead - Salisbury, United Kingdom - Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

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Salisbury, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £40,514 - £54,683

Salary will be dependent on skills and experience

Job grade:

Grade 7
Dstl Level 6
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DSTL
Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
Operations Team
Type of role:
Operational Delivery
Project Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JQ or Dstl Portsdown West, Fareham, Hampshire, PO17 6ADAbout the job

Job summary:

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) finds and funds exploitable innovations to support UK Defence and Security mission quickly and effectively, and generating UK prosperity.

Our vision is for the UK to maintain its strategic advantage over its adversaries through the most innovative defence and security capabilities in the world.

DASA is a relatively new organisation with a very high profile across Government. We operate in a complex, fast-paced environment in which there are a large number of partners, suppliers and customers.

DASA has four teams, Outreach, Operations, Partnership & Impact and Support Services.

We are looking for someone who can help influence, shape and lead delivery of our portfolio of themed work for defence customers.

Could you help Army, Navy, Air or Joint Forces Commands to find, accelerate and exploit the best solutions in the market to address their priority problems?

DASA is an equal opportunity employer, serious about promoting diversity and inclusion, and we offer flexible working and job share opportunities and part time positions.

We provide training and support for all our staff.

Job description:

In this role you will:

Lead engagement with, and management of, relationships with defence customers and partners to support awareness of DASA capabilities, find potential opportunities for DASA to inject and drive innovation.
Influence and negotiate with senior budget holders regarding investment in innovation for the purposes of defence.
Shape the defence portfolio through working up potential defence themes for the Triage Panel that align with our mission and vision, prioritisation principles and target portfolio shape, and which have associated funding and end user support.
Lead delivery of DASA's agreed defence portfolio from triage to service development through to award of contract, with good attention to detail ensuring the DASA service is led to time, cost and quality, raising risks and issues as required.
On occasion, work with Other Government Departments to gather support for shared opportunities.
Line manage, motivate and develop a team of high performing Delivery Managers and Associate Delivery Managers that will support portfolio delivery.
Provide appropriate monitoring and reporting on the portfolio as required.
Gather knowledge from, and identify and implement improvements in, current DASA Operations processes.
Work in partnership with wider DASA including
Work in partnership with Dstl's enabling services
Provide input to the strategic direction of the Operations Team via the Operations Lead.
Deputise for the Operations Lead where appropriate

Person specification:

We are looking for someone who has:

Experience of working in a customer facing role with the curiosity to explore customer challenges.
A passion for innovation; wanting to help customers quickly and effectively find solutions to meet their most pressing challenges, including an ability to spot areas of mutual interest across customers, making the linkages and avoiding duplication.
The people skills to develop good working relationships with Government partners across organisations boundaries including handling complex and sensitive relationships. This will include engagement with the wider defence innovation ecosystem including the Defence Innovation Unit and Front Line Commands Innovation Hubs, as well as with the expert assessors, moderators, technical partners and project managers who help inform the downselection of successful proposals and deliver contracted proposals.
The leaderships skills and drive to deliver DASA's defence portfolio using tools such as competitions, events or other services to meet customer requirements.
Good organisational skills and attention to detail to ensure that work is well planned, coordinated with relevant partners and delivered to a high quality.
Commercial awareness to support Dstl Commercial Services to place timely contracts with successful suppliers and Project Management awareness to assist handovers of identified solutions to the next stage of the exploitation journey.
Good reflective and creative skills to gather knowledge, identify lessons, challenge current norms and contribute to development of novel service