Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location DE&S Headquarters, Abbey Wood, Bristol About the job Job summary We are pleased that you are interested in this exciting, challenging, and important role. We have a mission to meet the needs of our Armed Forces, both currently and into the future. As part of the team at Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) we have the opportunity to play a critical role in ensuring the security of the UK. There are many powerful reasons to join DE&S and this position offers the opportunity to take on an impactful and challenging role that will contribute significantly to the delivery of equipment to the Armed Forces. Our mission in the Corporate area of DE&S, is to help our people to deliver in an operationally excellent way for Defence. We will do this by working across the whole of Corporate and indeed the whole of DE&S, as one team, with a real service delivery mindset - a focus on continually improving and delivering efficient and effective services. We will understand DE&S needs and Defence priorities, now and in the future - horizon scanning to identify opportunities to make things better and to future proof the organisation, whilst bringing together the right talent, knowledge and behaviours into well-led multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the outcomes our country needs. As the Head of Change for DE&S, you will play a crucial role in ensuring we continue to evolve the organisation towards our north star of Operational Excellence. The role demands strategic thinking, portfolio management, influencing key stakeholders and the ability to balance the many change initiatives alongside the needs of our mission partners. You will be part of a diverse working community and this position will be part of the Senior Leadership Group to collaborate, share ideas and support each other. To be successful, you will have experience of managing complex portfolio of projects in either delivery or change programmes. Youll be able to demonstrate your ability to deliver continuous improvements, improving the tool, processes and capabilities, of our people inspiring them to successfully deliver equipment and support to the UKs Armed Forces for operations now and in the future. This is an exciting time for DE&S and we look forward to your application. Job description Help to instil a culture of continuous improvement across DE&S, providing the tools and techniques to enable true and lasting change. Integrate all (non-Equipment Programme) business change across DE&S to ensure coherence and alignment to the strategy and operating model in an operationally excellent way. From multi- million pound infrastructure investment, large scale digital solution development and implementation and integrating with large scale Defence wide change programmes ( e.g around Shared Services and Asset management systems). Be alive to changes across the Defence Enterprise, that will have implications for DE&S embedding that in our E2E approaches. Whilst also identifying where change is needed across the Enterprise for the benefit of DE&S and influencing accordingly. Enable Project Professionals to lead multi-functional teams to deliver successful change across DE&S business areas; providing tools, techniques and developing the capability for change across the organisation. Apply appropriate project management disciplines, tools and techniques to plan, monitor and report delivery in a timely, objective and transparent manner, for individual change projects and for the change portfolio as a whole. Manage internal and external stakeholders and dependencies effectively to ensure and maintain alignment. Maintain a firm focus on benefit realisation and demonstration and ensure that effort is not wasted on initiatives that will not achieve the intended benefits; instilling a backlog mentality across the organisation. Person specification Please provide evidence of the following Criteria in your Supporting Statement Essential Criteria: A proven track record of values-based leadership, including a proactive commitment to diversity & inclusion with demonstrable experience of maintaining a psychologically safe, positive and inclusive environment. Confident in leading people, challenging cultures and leading change. Demonstrable experience of senior stakeholder engagement, including with non-finance decision makers, and understanding of the importance of partnering, constructive challenge and accountability. Experience of successfully managing complex portfolios Understanding of Agile and other project management techniques Qualifications A project professional qualification is essential and a business change qualification is desirable. Benefits Alongside your salary of £88,200, Ministry of Defence contributes £25,551 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. 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% Things you need to know Selection process details This is an external competition and we welcome applications from candidates in both the public or private sector. To apply for this post, you will need to submit the following documents to DESHR-SCSRecruitmentmod.gov.uk by 23:55 on Sunday 24th November 2024. A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps. A Supporting Statement ( of no more than two pages) outlining how you consider your personal skills, leadership attributes, qualities and experience match the essential criteria on page 10. As part of the application process, you are asked to complete a Diversity Monitoring questionnaire provided. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you have the option to select 'prefer not to say' but completion of the form is a mandatory part of the process, and your application will not be considered complete without it. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. This role has a minimum assignment duration of 4 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise. As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window). 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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) (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window). 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. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). Apply and further information This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job contact : Name : Nicholas Hamilton Email : DESHR-SCSRecruitmentmod.gov.uk Recruitment team Email : DESHR-SCSRecruitmentmod.gov.uk Attachments Candidate Pack Hd Business Change Opens in new window (pdf, 1499kB) Disability Confident Scheme (2) Opens in new window (doc, 73kB) Diversity Monitering Questionnaire Opens in new window (docx, 80kB) Share this page Print Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn GMail