Higher Executive Officer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence

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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £33,000

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer

C2
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
MOD
Head Office & Corporate Services
Cost Assurance and Analysis Service (CAAS)
Type of role:
Project Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Abbey Wood, Bristol, with hybrid working options (home/office split). See the job advert for full information.

About the job

Job summary:

CAAS is an established and professional organisation within the MOD's Head Office Directorate of Assurance.

We are a collaborative, innovative and inclusive team that provides support, challenge, insight, and assurance to strategic decision making at the heart of Defence.

Our purpose is to provide pan-MOD Cost Management Functional Leadership and Independent Assurance.

Today, the CAAS team of over 280 estimators, cost engineers, project managers, portfolio analysts and accountants provide expert independent costing advice to enable the MOD to make effective business decisions on equipment procurement and support.

CAAS provides dedicated teams to independently support customers across the MOD, including Head Office, Front Line Commands, Defence Equipment & Support and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Job description:

This role provides you with the unique opportunity to support the Operations Senior Executive Officer (SEO) role in all aspects of; the management of the CAAS IPEC processes; PM of the Corporate and Approvals programmes; PM of the Annual CAAS Programme Planning cycle.

The HEO Role also provides secretariat duties to the CAAS Operations Board and the CAAS Programme Management Office (PMO) Community of Practice.

Responsibilities:

Support the Operations SEO in the development, definition, promulgation and management of the CAAS IPEC policies and processes, ensuring coherence across the suite, and that documentation relating to the CAAS quality certification is controlled and registered in the required manner.

These policies and processes cover:

Operations Policy
Task databases and Information Management
PM Methodologies
Products and Services
Task Initiation
Planning
Dependency/Customer Management
Output Assurance
Learning from Experience
Support the Operations SEO as PMO for the Corporate and Approvals programmes.
Management of the CAAS Business Information System (BIS); developing, populating and maintaining each year's programme and tasking structure and detail.
Development and production of Management Information (MI) as required by the Programme, working with the BIS developers to produce / check information when necessary.
Production of MI to support the review and reporting of Programme compliance against IPEC and ensuring all quality standards are being met.
Provide secretariat duties to the CAAS Operations Board, ensuring meetings are well planned, set-up and carried out.
Provide secretariat duties to the CAAS PMO Community of Practice, ensuring meetings are well planned, set-up and carried out.

Person specification:

Essential Criteria:

The incumbent will have:

A relevant Project and Programme Management background.
Experience and qualification to HNC/HND, NVQ Level 4 or equivalent.

Desirable Criteria:

The incumbent is expected to achieve APMP within 3 years of taking up the role (where the organisation can support this) and can develop to complete AMP-Q or the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) certification in line with personal development aspirations.

Behaviours:

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

Leadership
Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills:

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

P3M18. Governance Arrangements
P3M20. Frameworks and Methodologies

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%
Professional and Personal Development of skills
Flexitime scheme upon completion of 6 months service
Alternative working patterns
25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years' service
In addition to 8 public holidays per year you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a gym and / or site shops.

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