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Reference number

300751

Salary

£41,000

per annum, pro-rata for part time

A
Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD – Strategic Command – Defence Medical Services (DMS)

Type of role

Project Delivery

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Location

Coltman House, DMS Whittington, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 9PY

About the job

Job summary

Defence Medical Services is the organisation within the MOD that provides healthcare to its service personnel both in the UK and aboard. The organisation consists of Military and Civilian personnel, working together to deliver healthcare to those on the front line.

DMS Group is undertaking an ambitious transformation journey with a number of large-scale programmes.

The DMS Transformation is focussed on:

Modernising and optimising Defence Primary Healthcare (PHC) services.
Working towards the organisations Quadruple Aim;
- Improving Patient Outcomes.
- Increasing Deployability.
- Improved experience for our people and delivering.
- Increased Value for Money.

As a DMS Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning and delivering key projects in pursuit of the DMS Quadruple Aim. You will build, support, oversee and lead multidisciplinary teams to ensure project objectives are clear and defined; delivered to approved standards of time, cost and quality; and project progress monitored and reported effectively.

The post offers 37 hrs per week but requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. Hybrid working will be considered.

Job description

You will have significant autonomy to lead your teams in the planning and delivery projects in line with Defence Policy and Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) methodologies, but will be held accountable by, receive support from, and report direct to the DMS Programme Manager.

The Project Manager will initially be assigned to Medical Operational Capability Programme Team Leidos Change Proposal, with the ability to travel to Northwood weekly.

Person specification

Duties and responsibilities of the role include but not limited to:

Consulting a wide range of stakeholders and explore a robust range of options and evidence bases to develop, seek approval for, and maintain Project Plans, including (but not limited to); schedules; milestones; risks; resource plans; costs; benefits; assumptions, dependencies and risk management plans.
Motivate, Coordinate and Lead multidisciplinary teams in the Delivery of approved project plans. Making day to day decisions in line with approved plans.
Lead on associated procurement activities in support of project acquisition objectives and in line with Defence and Government Commercial policy.

Please refer to the Job Description attached for further responsibilities.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Project management – Practitioner level

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,000, Ministry of Defence contributes
£11,070 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
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
Alternative working practices such as hybrid working between home and office
Free parking
Access to Gym
On Site Shop and Coffee Shop
A Civil Service Pension

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

This sift will be based on your CV and personal statement. The interview will be based on Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Technical skills, these are listed on the advert.

During the interview you will also be required to do a 10 minute presentation on a project you have managed, the outcomes and lessons learnt for the organisation and yourself.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date.

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

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. .

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 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-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

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.