JOB SUMMARY

Would you like to perform a key co-ordinating and organising role in the team who deliver MOD’s official analysis to inform the most important decisions in Defence? Working in a team of thirty digital specialists, you will organise a number of digital projects and programmes in different phases of their lives.
Analysis Digital sit within MOD Head Office under the Analysis Director and provide in-house digital and technology services and outward-facing services to MOD’s Civilian and Armed Forces.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The job holder is accountable for the delivery of digital and data products and services delivered by multiple teams, managing complex workstreams to achieve value and wider programme objectives. Understanding how digital (web) services and products are produced will help you in your work but this is fundamentally a Programme Management role. You will:

• manage dependencies, risks, stakeholder and supplier relationships.
• balance objectives and client pressures and redeploy people and resources.
• Know Agile and Waterfall methodologies and product and service lifecycles.
• be a programme escalation point and have an awareness of the bigger picture.
• remove blockers
• support and report upwards to the Head of Analysis Digital
• support and coach project leads and colleagues

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Line Manage several C2 Team Leaders in Bristol and London
• Maintain resource and work plans, prioritising resource
• Directly Project Manage priority projects.
• Maintain and grow relationships with clients and stakeholders, understanding their needs and concerns.
• Supported by your digital team, manage mildly technical conversations with data suppliers
• Maintain a knowledge of dependencies between data systems
  Please refer to the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework, for further information on the roles and responsibilities of the role: Programme delivery manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk)

BENEFITS

Alongside your salary of £44,590, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

For a full list of benefits, see: Discover My Benefits - Civilian (mod.gov.uk)

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annualised for part-time, or in full for full-time, 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service, with up to 10 days annual leave rollover
• 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

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.
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.
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/.
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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

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 the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• 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

Further information on nationality requirements

The job holder is accountable for the delivery of digital and data products and services delivered by multiple teams, managing complex workstreams to achieve value and wider programme objectives. Understanding how digital (web) services and products are produced will help you in your work but this is fundamentally a Programme Management role. You will:

• manage dependencies, risks, stakeholder and supplier relationships.
• balance objectives and client pressures and redeploy people and resources.
• Know Agile and Waterfall methodologies and product and service lifecycles.
• be a programme escalation point and have an awareness of the bigger picture.
• remove blockers
• support and report upwards to the Head of Analysis Digital
• support and coach project leads and colleague