Andover with regular travel to MOD main building .This role offers 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.

Key Responsibilities

• With the Head of Customer Support Team, lead the creation of a Strategic Planning Function to provide Estates Intelligence, Strategic Advice, Demand Planning, Capability Planning, Strategy Development and Business Planning for DIO.
• Through the establishment of the Strategic Planning Function, catalyse a mind-set change across the DIO making the organisation more proactive, collaborative and ambitious.
• Provide Provision and coherence of Infrastructure Advice, to inform and influence Head Office policy development.
• Provide guidance to infrastructure delivery agents across the estate through the development and promotion of infrastructure policy guidance and standards.
• Ensure state intelligence and advice is aligned with the Customer Support Teams (CST) to support Defence Customers in their infra planning and portfolio definition.
• Supporting the Ministry of Defence in developing and maintaining the Departments relationship with the Office of Government Property and other Government Departments and Bodies.
• Engagement and Assurance in relation to the stewardship of the Defence Estate.
• Leads a multi-disciplinary team of approx. 60 people in DIO and influence widely across Defence.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their experience and skills against the following essential criteria:

• Experienced leader with a proven ability to lead and inspire multi-functional teams, develop capability, set a clear vision; and create an engaged and motivated workforce.
• Outstanding analytical skills, with the ability to see the big picture, get to the heart of complex issues quickly and communicate the key judgements clearly.
• Experience of driving delivery and delivering practical outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills at all levels with the ability to build collaborative relationships at senior levels.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to deploy these to influence at the highest levels and explain detailed, complex concepts and plans in a concise and clear manner.
• Must be a qualified Chartered Engineer or Chartered Surveyor or have an equivalent professional qualification.

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a strong field of candidates when there is a need to distinguish between candidates. This will be as a second sift, after the essential criteria has been considered:

• Experience working in or with the engineering, infrastructure or facilitates management sector.

• 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 average employer contribution of 27%

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 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.

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).

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Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment team
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]