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About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location
About the job
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK’s largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation 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.
About DIO
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About Regional Delivery (RD)
RD is a large, complex and geographically dispersed operation within the DIO covering circa. 58,000 assets, across over 500 sites and 275,000 Ha of freehold and leasehold estate in the UK and a further 580,000 Ha overseas; with a multitude of £multi-million contracts to manage. We deliver soft and hard Facilities Management (FM) services - building, maintaining, and servicing – across the majority of MODs built assets in the UK and overseas; hard and soft FM services across MODs Training Estate, including feeding, accommodation, range bookings, targetry support, management of the rural training estate and tenanted estates; administration of UK and Overseas utility contracts, bill payments, and recoveries; and management of the USVF Built Estate comprising c.4503 assets.
About South East Region and Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs)
South East Region and PFIs (SERP) is one of the main delivery areas of the DIO delivering Hard Facilities Management (HFM), Soft Facilities Management (SFM) and extensive construction programmes. With an area stretching from the Thames Estuary across to Oxfordshire and South to Portsmouth it includes the complexities of the Central London Estate, the strategic importance of RAF Brize Norton and the history and reputation of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Hard Facilities Management is delivered through a single contract for the whole Region and Soft Facilities Management is delivered through two sector leading Soft Services contracts. Having day to day contact with our customers we focus on delivery of outputs and providing cogent estate advice.
The eleven PFI contracts include major military Garrisons, provision of water supply to buildings and other specialist establishments. The PFI contracts are well founded and mature. Each contract is managed by a dedicated team.
Summary of the Role
Within SERP, the Regional Support Team (RST) focuses on supporting the delivery of these services to establishments across the Region in accordance with wider roles and responsibilities of the DIO enabling functions and business functions. The postholder will sit within the Assurance function in the RST and will engage with a diverse range of team members and other stakeholders across both SERP and RST.
The role will work closely with the Assurance, Performance, and Compliance team leaders as well as technical, cost, and programming team members in the RST. The role will support all Assurance work and act as focal point on all assurance matters within the region.
Key responsibilities of the role:
There will be required travel across the region carrying out varied activities in line with the business needs
Desirable Experience & Skills
Evidence of experience of stakeholder engagement.
Understanding of Assurance across Facilities Management environment.
Experience of Contract Management within a Facilities Management environment.
Any further skills or experience relevant to the role.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
Benefits
To learn more about our full range of benefits, view our Candidate Information Guide attached.
Allowances
This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.
Please be advised the department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Working Pattern
The post advertised is for 37 hours net, however the Ministry of Defence offers a range of flexibilities to enable a better work-life balance for employees. Flexible working patterns will be considered.
Things you need to know
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.
At application stage you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
Experience:
At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following:
Behaviours:
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. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.
Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing: 27/03/2023
Interviews are currently taking place either MS Teams or Face to Face and will be conducted week commencing: 17/04/2023
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.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
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Some of MoD’s Terms and Conditions of Service (TACOS) changed from 3 February 2014. Those TACOS changes applied to Broader Banded and Skill Zone staff who were new recruits to MoD or who were appointed to a post on substantive promotion, progression or advancement. On the same basis, the TACOS for Departmental Retained Grades changed with effect from 01 September 2014. The document attached to this advertisement provides more information.
All employees joining MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
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Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant whose details are found to be held on the IFD will be refused employment
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There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
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.
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 by 31st December 2022. 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.
