Airborne Delivery Wing Administrative Officer

The Airborne Delivery Wing delivers specialist parachuting support to the Defence Airborne Forces community. ADW is commanded at OF4 (Wing Commander) and is made up of a Headquarters and four Squadrons, which sits within the Air Wing of the Air Mobility Force in 1 Group. The four Squadrons include Parachute Training Squadron (PTS), Support Squadron, MAB Delivery Squadron and finally Airborne Engineering Squadron. We seek excellence in all we do to deliver world-class specialist parachuting support and training, maintaining strong and effective relationships throughout. Your role sits within the Headquarters of the Wing, providing the foundational administration to keep the Wing of ~230 personnel organised, prepared and informed.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an essential team within RAF Brize Norton as an integral part of the Airborne Delivery Wing Headquarters. Your role assists with the smooth running of the Wing by supporting the Executive Officer and works closely with the wider Executive team to inform and enable their outputs as well as providing routine information input to various wider Station agencies. You will be a valued member of the team, operating in a challenging, fast-paced environment, with the impact of your work directly affecting Wing members, key stakeholders and wider business areas.

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)

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

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a Personal Statement (500 words).

At sift, candidates will be assessed against their CV and Personal Statement and the following:

Behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

In the event of a significant number of applications, an initial pre-sift may be conducted on Delivering at Pace and Communicating and Influencing. Candidates who are successful at the pre-sift will then progress to a full sift.

At interview stage, you will be assessed against:

Behaviours

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing 30 November 2026. Interviews will take place on the week commencing 7 December 2026. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

Further information:

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.

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. 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.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.