Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2EA About the job Job summary As an important part of the Ministry of Defence, Defence Intelligence (DI) provides intelligence analysis, specialist outputs and advice that supports decision making across government. At the heart of DI, is the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI). NCGI - Analysis (NCGI-A) is a joint service unit and its role is to provide specialist Geospatial Intelligence, including imagery intelligence and geospatial analysis, to senior policy makers, military commanders, and deployed forces, providing a unique insight into global events not found anywhere else in Government. It supports intelligence assessments, Defence policy and planning, current operations, and crisis response. We have an exciting opportunity for a driven and motivated individual to join our hardworking team as a Senior Imagery Intelligence Officer (SIO). You will support, guide and ensure the production of timely, accurate and relevant Imagery and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT). This position is advertised at 37 Hours per week. Job description SIOs are responsible for the intelligence output of their team, maintaining professional standards to ensure the highest possible production standards are being achieved. You will make sure output is maximised and accessible by the appropriate national and international partners, ensuring that the excellent work that your team produces has an impact. SIOs also provide professional GEOINT advice, expertise and guidance to a range of colleagues and partners across Defence and wider Government. As a manager of civil servants and military staff, SIOs will be expected to provide leadership, mentoring, and technical expertise to their teams, ensuring that analytical effort is most efficiently apportioned to tasks and ensuring customer requirements are being met through regular engagement. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to: Act as the lead point of contact for GEOINT tasking in accordance with prioritised requirements, representing GEOINT concerns at key meetings and engagements to ensure production levels and dissemination methods are appropriate. Dedicate time to mentoring and developing junior analysts within their team, on topic specific IMINT expertise and tradecraft. This includes encouraging and guiding analysts seeking new opportunities to improve their skills and output. Demonstrate and promote, within the team, a detailed awareness of modern and innovative GEOINT business, IMINT tradecraft, collection sources, tools, and procedures. Support the evaluation, development and adoption of new techniques or capabilities, making valuable contributions to the intelligence community through opportunities provided by the IMINT Capability Lead. Initiate and develop professional working relationships with the relevant Communities of Interest (CoI). Encourage analysts to undertake co-production/joint reporting where relevant with a range of partners. Ensure that all imagery/geospatial analysts actively participate in their respective CoIs and can develop and work with a range of contacts, providing fused and integrated products, in addition to single source GEOINT, as required. Identify and highlight emerging intelligence gaps relevant to Defence. The SIO will be an IMINT Releasing Officer, ensuring all intelligence output is aligned with extant policies and direction in terms of quality, format, and timeliness. Provide local team tasking oversight, leadership, and personnel management. In DI our people solve problems, create understanding and give perspective to the diverse and complex Defence threats and challenges in a rapidly changing world. Together our civilians and military personnel inform decision making in Defence, manage complex finance programmes and develop new technology. In DI we believe your unique experiences, view and understanding of the world could provide a vital perspective and contribution to our work. We recognise that great minds do not think alike and are striving to increase our diversity representation at all levels. As an equal opportunities employer we hire, train and promote people based on merit and inspire to create an inclusive workplace free of discrimination. We also offer flexible working arrangements such as flexi-time, job share and compressed hours. All jobs advertised in DI are subject to fair and open competition. Person specification We are seeking a confident and effective communicator who is comfortable dealing with a wide range of internal and external customers and partners. Someone who can demonstrate that they can lead and motivate, as well as manage, a group of individuals. We want dedicated individuals with an aptitude for analytical work who are highly organised, have a good eye for detail and have a high degree of integrity and trust in their own judgement. Essential: Leadership experience Essential Qualification : Successful completion of the UKIAC/DIIAC Desirable: Mentoring experience Completion of Releasing Officer workshop and/or Pathfinder IMINT Production Passport Qualifications Successful completion of the UKIAC/DIIAC Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Communicating and Influencing Developing Self and Others Leadership Making Effective Decisions Seeing the Big Picture 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. We offer a range of excellent benefits including but not limited to the following: All successful candidates will be eligible to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%. Leave entitlement - 25-day annual leave allowance per year increasing by 1 day per year (maximum 30 days per year). In addition, 8 statutory Bank Holidays and 1 privilege day per year. Complementing our generous annual leave allowance, we also have a flexible working scheme. Additional working pattern options we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours. These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more, please speak to the Recruiting Line Manager. Professional Development - We are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. Health and Wellbeing for a small fee we offer the staff the use of the exceptional site gymnasium facilities. We also offer an excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Special Paid Leave to volunteer up to 6 days a year RAF Wyton has free car parking; and other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and on site shops. The post does not offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility. Discover My Benefits Please follow the link to visit the Discover My Benefits site which showcases the benefits and discounts offered when working as a civilian for the MOD. https://discovermybenefits.mod.gov.uk/civilian/ Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Commands transformation programme is committed to following the MODs framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Commands personnel and Trade Unions. 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. 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/. The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments. 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. Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. Applicants should apply for this role online, via the website. Assessment at sift and interview will be based on meeting any defined skill/qualification requirements along with a Success Profile element assessment, as detailed in the job advert. The Success Profile elements to be assessed will be outlined within the job advert. The Civil Service Success Profile Framework is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles At sift, applicants will be assessed against the following: CV (to include details of previous roles and relevant qualifications) All applicants will need to provide a personal statement, of no more than 1000 words, including evidence of the essential and desirable criteria requested within the job advert. When completing your personal statement, please read and understand the requirements described in the Job Description and Person Specification section thoroughly, as this is what your written evidence will be assessed against. Your layout is entirely your preference; you may choose narrative, bullets, etc. You may choose to address each criteria separately or have examples that cover and evidence several criteria. Please ensure you evidence the requirements and what you have done that relates to the requirements. You dont have to explain the whole process, focus on what you have done and the skills and experience you have used. Share with us what makes you suited to this role and why, what you can do and the technical and behavioural skills you have that correspond to the requirements, and life experience or passion you have that are linked to this role. At interview, applicants will be assessed against the following Civil Service Behaviours: - Seeing the Big Picture - Developing Self and Others - Leadership - demonstration of evidence against this behaviour will include providing a brief to the interview panel of up to 6 minutes demonstrating what your leadership style is and how you have developed it, how you will continue to develop your approach to leadership, and how you have handled a significant leadership challenge.. The topic of the brief will be provided ahead of the interview. - Communicating & Influencing - Making Effective Decisions A CV will be required for this position, this cannot be uploaded to the advert. You will submit using the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard in part two of your application, detailing job history, previous experience, and skills. We would generally expect Behaviour examples to follow the STAR structure and encourage candidates to use this throughout their application. Application/Interview Scoring System NCGI adopts a scoring system of 1-7 for Behaviours, Technical skills, and Experience. 7- The evidence provided wholly exceeds expectation at this level 6 - Substantial positive evidence; includes some evidence of exceeding expectations at this level 5 - Substantial positive evidence of the competency or behaviour 4 - Adequate positive evidence and any negative evidence would not cause concern 3 - Moderate positive evidence but some negative evidence demonstrated 2 - Limited positive evidence and/or mainly negative evidence demonstrated 1 - No positive evidence and/or substantial negative evidence demonstrated The sift should take place within two weeks of the job closing and candidates will be informed of the results, at all stages, via the website. Interview dates are to be confirmed. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. If the successful candidate does not hold the necessary clearances, they will be made a provisional job offer and asked to undergo our vetting procedures. Once the relevant clearances have been obtained a formal job offer will be made and start dates can be discussed. Should the candidate fail to obtain the relevant clearances the provisional job offer will be rescinded. It should be noted that this process can take several months. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3mod.gov.uk. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into 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. 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 developed vetting (opens in a new window). See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements Open to UK nationals only. 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 : NCGI Recruitment Team Email : UKStratCom-DI-NCGI-Recruitmentmod.gov.uk Recruitment team Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3mod.gov.uk Further information Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: infocsc.gov.uk. 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