Defence Digital Chief of Staff - Corsham, United Kingdom - Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence

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Corsham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £54,440
Job grade:

Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
MOD
Strategic Command
Type of role:
Administration / Corporate Support
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Corsham, South West England, SN13 9NRAbout the job

Job summary:

About Defence Digital

- who are we? We provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via radio, satellite, and the internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we're aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world. To do that we're growing our capabilities in disciplines like data science, automation and cyber security. If you can see yourself contributing to the world of Defence digital and technology, the next chapter of your career may be with us.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Job description:

Person specification:

The successful applicant will be responsible for:

The role focuses on supporting the Directors to provide strategic insight on all elements of Business Change, ensuring coherence of activity across a shared Portfolio and cohesion of action across all of their SCS1 direct reports and business groupings.
You will be responsible for driving the Directors' priorities across the department; and influential across the wider Defence Digital and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Management Structure; you will also lead on key stakeholder engagement, drawing in business priorities and demand for the future.

The key areas of focus for the Directors are:

Defence Digital Transformation including Strategic Workforce Transformation and improving portfolio performance, with the aim to deliver improved customer service, better ways of working and greater operating efficiency This role is key in supporting the Programme Management of these initiatives.
Supporting the embedding of the new Service Executives within each of the Delivery Teams, to focus each area and the appropriate component teams towards endtoend service ownership and design.
Overcoming complexities and barriers in processes which hinder rather than support Defence Digital's people, programmes, and customers to achieve all they can within the constraints of public spending and commercial integrity.

In supporting delivery of above, you will:

Support the Directors to deliver their brief, working closely with the Management Team, other senior stakeholders, and the broader Defence Digital team.
Lead on driving efficiency across the Service Delivery Directorate by identifying and eliminating duplication, reducing overheads, removing redundant processes, and introducing automation where appropriate.
Driving improvement of the MI landscape, ensuring it delivers the required insight.
Line manage 1x Assistant Chief of Staff (HEO), 1x Private Secretary (HEO), 2x Executive Assistants (EO); ongoing engagement and matrix management as required of other outer office team members.
Dependent on the 'tasking' and business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK.

Hybrid Working

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (the permanent duty station, MOD Corsham, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this).

If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Behaviours:

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

Leadership
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace
Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills:

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

Please note though that 'Communication Skills' under the Technical Skills should now read 'Communicating between the technical and non-technical'. This is a recent update.

Benefits:

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 average employer contribution of 27%

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

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.

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 ha