Ministry of Defence Hiring for HEO Talent Management, Defence Cyber Academy at Swindon Full Time

Details

Reference number

217228

Salary

£33,000

Grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD – Strategic Command – Defence Cyber Academy, Defence College for Military Capability Integration, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

Type of role

Education and Training

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Compressed Hours

Number of posts

1

Contents

Location

About the job

Benefits

Things you need to know

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Location

Shrivenham, South East England, SN6 8LA

About the job

Summary

As a result of the Integrated Review, the MOD is building on the success of the Defence Cyber School, part of the Defence Academy of the UK. The MOD has an ambitious goal to expand the Defence Cyber School into a Defence Cyber Academy (DCA), charged with preparing MOD’s people for cyber operations. This role will allow candidates to have a hands-on role as the Defence Cyber Academy grows and becomes established, managing technical, contracting, and steady-state projects in support of Defence Cyber Academy delivery.

The Defence Cyber Academy has three aims: to ensure Defence can deliver a strategically relevant cyber workforce, informed by policy, industrial, and academic inputs; to undertake national-level engagement (across Government, industry, and academia) to ensure MOD’s cyber workforce is prepared for future challenges; and to undertake international engagement to promote the UK’s interests in the cyber domain. With stakeholders including higher education providers, national-level academic and international partners, the role has a broad and diverse portfolio to develop and manage.

Job description

Within the Defence Cyber Academy, working to the newly established SEO Defence Professions Coordinator, candidates will have an active role focussed on cross-defence approach to cyber talent management. This will include the management of the ‘front door’ to the cyber learning journey and the ongoing development of Cyber Aptitude Assessment, to meet a cross defence and wider partner requirements. You will work closely with single Service, specialist Cyber Units and external stakeholders to understand pipeline requirements and devise talent strategies to achieve objectives. You will also monitor cross defence learning pathways and link into its development to ensure engagement with the DCA. This will contribute to the Defence Cyber Academy becoming a centre of excellence for HMG’s Defence and Security sector cyber personnel management.

Responsibilities

All applicants should be aware that due to this being a new post established in an exciting growth area for Defence, the role objectives and responsibilities are likely to change as the Defence Cyber Academy evolves.

The main responsibilities of the role are:

• Management & development of Defence Cyber Aptitude Assessment and its approach/use.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders understanding sS, specialist cyber units pipeline requirements and devise talent strategies to achieve objectives.
• Work with cross-government/frameworks teams, to incorporate current competency data to pipeline requirements and learning journey approach.
• Work with members of the Defence Cyber Academy Cross Government, National & International teams in order to ensure talent management and learning pathways are considered in all their engagements.
• Regularly track, report and forecast pipeline data to all applicable stakeholders.
• Manage, develop and where necessary implement talent management tools & processes, incorporating best practice approaches.
• In collaboration with Joint User, engagement with MOD and cross-Government to understand all Cyber Leaning pathways, coordinating talent management.
• Deputise for SEO Defence Professions Coordinator as required.

About our Team

This role will offer candidates the opportunity to work within the Training and Education branch of the Defence Cyber Academy. The Defence Cyber Academy itself will grow to approximately 50-strong by 2024. This team is currently made up of a mix of technical and non-technical trainers, and technical support staff, with the Defence Cyber Academy growth adding both to the Education and Training team as well as establishing a new Outreach and Development team. Residing in a newly purpose-built facility which provides new working offices, flexible classrooms and learning spaces for remote and in-person delivery, the facilities and location make for a fantastic working environment.

Behaviours

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

Leadership

Changing and Improving

Communicating and Influencing

Working Together

Making Effective Decisions

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Leadership

Changing and Improving

Communicating and Influencing

Working Together

Benefits

Some of the many benefits you will receive:

• Highly competitive pension scheme.
• Flexi-time scheme upon completion of 6 months service or the Line Manager has the ability to adopt flexible working sooner than the 6 month period.

Offered Benefits (Standard)

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 Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances. External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six month probation period.

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 www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

Please note: Interview travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

• With Line Manager agreement move to an alternative Working Patterns (there are 9).
• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service. If by chance you have previously completed service in the Public Sector in the past 5 years, you may be eligible to request 30 days leave immediately. (Evidence will be required).
• In addition to 8 Public Bank Holidays per year you will also receive a day’s Privilege Leave for the HM The Queen’s Birthday.
• Professional and Personal Development of skills with the opportunity to undergo an Apprenticeship in Human Resources.
• Opportunity to join more than one of our many networks (Race, LGBT+, Gender, Disability and Faith & Belief).
• Minimum of 18 Days Special Paid Leave in a rolling 12-month period for Public Duties commitments (such as a Magistrate).
• Special Paid Leave for community volunteering up to 12 days a year for Special Constables and 6 days a year for other volunteering.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Shrivenham has good travel links with free car parking. Other facilities are a Sports & Social facilities, a Gym complex, a Stables, a Golf Course and a swimming pool, as well as onsite Mess & Retail shops.

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This recruitment process will consist of two parts:
1. A written application containing your experience (a CV and a Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement)) and 4 Behaviours drawn from the Civil Service Success Profiles.

2. If your written application is successful, you will be invited to a face-to-face and or virtual via MS Teams interview where you will be tested against 5 Behaviours (the 4 from your application, plus 1 more at interview).

3. If a large number of applications are received, they will be assessed initially against the Leadership behaviour and your Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement). You will then be assessed against the other criteria if you have met the minimum scores.

4. Behaviours are assessed individually with a 250-word statement. The application form will indicate which behaviour is being assessed. We are looking for evidence using the Situation, Task, Action, Result (STAR) methodology.

5. It is highly recommended you focus by providing one example for each behaviour. We would also advise you to use examples that best meet the criteria, even if they are a few years old, using the STAR methodology.

Situation: Briefly describe the background of the situation in which you found yourself.

Task: What you were required to do/chose to do.

Action: What actions you undertook to achieve the tasks. Make sure to use “I”, not “we” to explain how your actions led to results.

Result: Use facts and evidence to demonstrate the results that your actions produced. Explain whether it was a successful outcome, and if not, what you learned from the experience.

6. Please make sure you have consulted the HM Government ‘Success Profiles – Civil Service Behaviours’ document (available on Gov.uk) to ensure you have understood the relevant Behaviours at Level xx for the appropriate grade.

7. Your experience will be assessed individually through your CV and a 1,000 word Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement).

PLEASE NOTE:
Sift & Interview:
Sift to take place within 2 weeks of the Advert closing and Interviews are likely to take place within 2 weeks of Sift.

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.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:
UK nationals

nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

nationals of the Republic of Ireland

nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service

relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service

certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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.

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.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :Name :
Mark Morrissey

Email :
[email protected]

Recruitment team :Email :
[email protected]

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. Please refer to the attached Candidate Information guide.