Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Andover SP11 8HJ, Glasgow G2 8EX, Whittington WS14 9TJ and Wyton PE28 2EA. Where business needs allow, this role may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working, therefore you must consider if any of the above locations are within a reasonable travelling distance. 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 (i.e., detached duty) 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. About the job Job summary Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe Learn much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached. Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique. To enable this DIO recognises that a diverse workforce is at the heart of different insights, ideas and innovation. A workforce diverse in background and life experience produces trusted public services and better decisions. We want our people to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation. To enable this DIO commits to offering its employees: The ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO Free membership for professional qualifications including CIPS Professional and Personal Development of skills Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO Opportunity to join 6 networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers Opportunity to drive and embed sustainable practices and solutions through delivering and managing sustainable procurement for Defence estates About DIO View our YouTube video to see more about our work This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. Job description About the Cost & Price Analysis Capability Team (CPAC) CPAC provides a centralised and trusted resource that supports DIOs cost and pricing activities. It provides cost data, and standardised tools and templates to drive smarter investment decisions and value for money for DIO customers throughout the investment lifecycle. Our services include: Design and provision of cost standards and templates : Supporting industry-standardised recording of costs for estimating, tendering and final cost capture across customers and suppliers Capture and provision of a wide range of quality-assured cost data: Spanning Capital, Facilities Management and Additional Works Services/Billable Works Cost leadership to help bring together the community of practice: Supporting DIOs cost community with professional development, knowledge sharing and networking opportunities Why Join us The CPAC Hub is the dynamic team within the Commercial directorate that delivers the CPAC services to users across DIO, drives innovation and continuous improvement of products and services, and ensures CPAC operates effectively and efficiently. We are passionate about enabling our colleagues, partners and customers to communicate, collaborate and work efficiently on costs and CPAC provides the tools and services that support this. If you are someone with superb communication and engagement skills and are looking to be part of a team that is successfully delivering change across DIO, now is a great opportunity to get involved with this innovative function. Person specification Reporting to the CPAC Lead, as the Standards and Process Manager, you will collaborate and engage widely with stakeholders ensuring CPAC lead the way on cost capture and management across delivery areas. You will be an expert in techniques for producing construction cost plans and estimates and the ability to translate that into usable standardised templates. The role requires a post holder who can seek and exploit synergies across delivery areas in estimating and cost planning processes, influencing change and adoption of joined up ways of working. Day to day the Standards and Process Manager role has responsibility for standardised templates, designing, verifying and promoting adoption across DIO delivery directorates and by external suppliers to ensure that cost data, from the earliest Planning Estimates to Final Outturn, are captured in a consistent, sufficiently detailed and standardised format. You will work with stakeholders to align estimating and cost capture processes ensuring best practice methods and industry standards are adopted. CPAC is high-profile and requires delivery at pace. You will need to be a great communicator - a large part of what you will do is fostering the wide ranging DIO cost community, as well as being a prominent voice for the capability. You will need to have good people and change skills and good organisation and planning to lead the design and delivery of CPAC templates. You will be a leader and influencer - someone who can bring people with them as the CPAC services evolve. Responsibilities: Personal leadership 10% Manage own workload to contribute to DIO outputs Demonstrate a personal commitment to the DIO Guiding Principles Contribute to a positive, collaborative, and proactive working environment and create strong working relationships Standards design and management. 20% Work closely with Stakeholders to design, provision and maintain the tools and templates that will deliver standardised and trusted cost data capture, cleansing storage and retrieval to deliver estimating, benchmarking and insight services Design provision and maintain user support documents, communications and training that support the operation of standardised tools and templates Collaborate with training roles and activities to upskill users and interdependent participants Collaborate with the Lead QS advisor to ensure templates and tools are in line with industry best practice and quality assured, are fit for purpose, reliable, and deliver trusted outputs Process design and management 20% Collaborate with operational DIO delivery areas and Suppliers ensuring synergy of CPAC processes with those in place across the wider DIO delivery areas and ensure processes are understood, fit for purpose and embedded Design, provision and maintain user support documents, communications and training (in collaboration with the Community and training Manager) that underpin the operation of the processes Collate regular user feedback and update and amend processes where necessary, ensuring adherence to standards is maintained Governance for CPAC standards 15% Routinely liaise with governance forums, scrutiny groups and DIO Commercial to assure the quality of the templates and to ensure standards and processes are being enforced Drive regular communication and governance forums with scrutiny to ensure proactive process compliance with changing standards Collate regular user feedback and update and amend processes where necessary, ensuring adherence to standards is maintained Performance monitoring and continuous improvement of CPAC processes and standards 20% Capture and evaluate CPAC standards and template change requests Update processes in line with any changes, as required Identify, support prioritisation, and oversee delivery of continuous improvement activities for cost templates, processes and standards, to meet changing internal and industry requirements Capture lessons learned and develop improvement initiatives Closely engage internal stakeholders and Suppliers, including via Community initiatives, to drive awareness, distribution, understanding and uptake of standardised templates and processes Data capture and upload to Central Data Store and support to lead QS 15% Ensure new data received by CPAC is uploaded to the Final Outturn Template and Cost Upload Tool in collaboration with the Lead QS adviser including data quality scoring Provide input to early Options Costings and QS queries to CPAC in support of the Lead QS Adviser where capability and capacity shortfall are experienced Essential Criteria Degree level or equivalent in Quantity Surveying with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience. High level of proficiency in MS Excel application and a good level of literacy across other MS applications Ability to listen and understand the business needs and utilise this insight to develop planned, well timed inventions that effect positive behaviour and culture change to improve organisational effectiveness Ability to build strong, trustful relationships with colleagues at all levels and internal / external stakeholders at all levels to deliver change through the business and beyond Ability to work in a challenging, changing and fast paced environment Qualifications Degree level or equivalent in Quantity Surveying with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Leadership Communicating and Influencing Managing a Quality Service Changing and Improving Working Together We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form: Leadership Benefits Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Highly competitive Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97% Alternative working practices such as working from home. Opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years service Enhanced Parental Leave Most sites have free car parking, Sports & Social Clubs, Gym, on site shops and subsidised canteens To learn more about our full range of benefits, view our Candidate Information Guide attached. Allowances 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. 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/. 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 Policy 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. Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience. Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit. Please provide your evidence using the STAR Technique using the attached information on how to apply. Situation: Describe the situation you found yourself in. You must describe a specific event or situation. Be sure to give enough detail for the job holder to understand. Where are you? Who was there with you? What had happened? Task: The recruitment panel will want to understand what you tried to achieve from the situation you found yourself in. What was the task that you had to complete and why? What did you have to achieve? Action: What did you do? The recruitment panel will be looking for information of what you did, how you did it and why. Keep the focus on you. What specific steps did you take and what was your contribution? Remember to include how you did it, and the behaviours you used. Try to use I rather than we to explain your actions that lead to the result. Be careful not to take credit for something that you did not do. Result: Dont be shy about taking credit for your behaviour. Quote specific facts and figures easily understandable. What results did the actions produce? What did you achieve through your actions, and did you meet your goals? Was it a successful outcome? If not, what did you learn from the experience? Keep the situation and task parts brief. Concentrate on the action and the result. If the result was not entirely successful describe what you learned from this and what you would do differently next time. Make sure you focus on your strengths. When providing your evidence please ensure that you avoid acronyms and company specific jargon. At Application you will be assessed against the following: Experience : CV - detailing Job History, Full Qualifications, Previous Skills and Experience Personal Statement - As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement of 750 words, the purpose for this, is for you to showcase your relevant skills and experience against the role responsibilities. The statement is your opportunity to give examples of how you fit the requirements of the role. When writing a personal statement, it is important that you: Read the job advert so you are clear about the job requirements Outline the skills and experience that you have that are relevant to the job and use examples to help demonstrate this Keep to the word limit, if your statement is too brief it will not provide the required depth of detail and evidence to be assessed fully We require you to provide evidence and a demonstration of specific skills, knowledge or transferable experience. This will allow you to provide evidence to show a more rounded picture of your suitability for the role. When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected. Behaviours: Leadership At interview you will be assessed against the following: Behaviours: Communicating and Influencing Managing a Quality Service Changing and Improving Working Together We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn't always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. Application sifting is scheduled to take place from 24th January 2025. Interviews are currently taking place remotely through a digital platform, this will be confirmed with the successful candidates who are invited to an interview and will be conducted from 31st January 2025. A minimum of 2 full working days notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs. To assist with your application please find attached below: DIO Candidate Information Guide DIO Candidate Information Guide - Accessible Version DBS Candidate Information Guide (June 2024) For help and support with your application check out our Civil Service Careers Homepage and the How to apply section 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 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. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It 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 security check (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 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 : BI Resourcing Team Email : DIOComrcl-BIResourcingTeammod.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. Attachments 02 DIO Candidate Information Guide Opens in new window (pdf, 1963kB) 03 DIO Candidate Information Guide - Accessible Version Opens in new window (pdf, 443kB) DBS Candidate Information Guide (June 2024).docx Opens in new window (pdf, 40kB) EXTERNAL PACK Opens in new window (pdf, 1562kB) Share this page Print Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn GMail