JOB SUMMARY

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?
Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?

Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.

• Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
• Our Mission – Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.

DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society.
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.
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.
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JOB DESCRIPTION

Working within the DBS Digital Information Technology (DIT) team, the successful applicant will join DBS Finance and Commercial Change Delivery Services.
The role of the Project Manager is to lead and manage the Project Team on a day-to-day basis. The Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of the project ensuring that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. The Project Manager has a key role in project Governance and working with Stakeholders to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

Specific responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Delivery – create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints
• Project Management – day-to-day management and leadership of the project and project team. Set project controls. Design the project structure appropriate to stage. Select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies
• Business case – co-ordinate the development of the business case
• Budget – track delivery within budget
• Resources – schedule and manage resources to deliver the project, working independently or with a small team
• Benefits realisation – ensure benefits are identified, understood, tracked and owned. Ensure benefits realisation strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the business case
• Stakeholder Management – identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships
• Risks & Issues – identify and monitor key risks and issues management. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate
• Governance – provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making
• Assurance – support and set appropriate project assurance
• Change Management – ensure effective change management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders
• Guidance and Support – seek appropriate support and guidance and coaching from the project community. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance
• Programme Performance & Controls – build project plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate project controls. Track and report delivery against milestones.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS HELD OR WILLING TO WORK TOWARDS:

• APM Project Management Qualification
• Agile Project Management Practitioner
• Prince 2 (Practitioner)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

• Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) Professional Competence Framework - Technical Comptency: Governance

EXPERIENCE

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.
• Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. (Word count: 1000)
  Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
  At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following:

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) Professional Competence Framework - Technical Comptency: Governance

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

Specific responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Delivery – create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints
• Project Management – day-to-day management and leadership of the project and project team. Set project controls. Design the project structure appropriate to stage. Select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies
• Business case – co-ordinate the development of the business case
• Budget – track delivery within budget
• Resources – schedule and manage resources to deliver the project, working independently or with a small team
• Benefits realisation – ensure benefits are identified, understood, tracked and owned. Ensure benefits realisation strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the business case
• Stakeholder Management – identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships
• Risks & Issues – identify and monitor key risks and issues management. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate
• Governance – provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making
• Assurance – support and set appropriate project assurance
• Change Management – ensure effective change management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders
• Guidance and Support – seek appropriate support and guidance and coaching from the project community. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance
• Programme Performance & Controls – build project plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate project controls. Track and report delivery against milestones