Army Capability Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer

The Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer is a high-profile appointment which will provide applicants the opportunity to engage and work with a wide range of stakeholders in Army Headquarters, ensuring that there is a joined up approach to military capability development. More specifically the incumbent will be responsible for:

Engaging across Army Headquarters Capability Directorate and with external organisations, including the other Front-Line Commands, to ensure that the Army’s Innovation, Research and Experimentation is coherent with the Army’s future digital and data strategy and communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability roadmap.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer is a high-profile appointment which will provide applicants the opportunity to engage and work with a wide range of stakeholders in Army Headquarters, ensuring that there is a joined up approach to military capability development.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Engaging with external organisations, to ensure that the Army’s Innovation, Research and Experimentation is coherent with the Army’s future digital and data strategy and communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability roadmap.
• Attending internal Planning working groups, capability user boards and functional capability working groups to ensure that military capability planning outcomes are coherent with the Army's Land Domain Digital Ecosystem.
• Working with the non-Information Manoeuvre capability planning groups to manage dependencies, highlight opportunities and potential cross cutting activities.
• Working with industry, academia, and the Science and Technology community to identify future developing technologies with the potential to meet identified Army digital capability requirements.
• Interact with DSTL, IHub, Defence and Security Accelerator related Science and Technology activity to support the development of communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability.
• In conjunction with stakeholders, develop use cases to demonstrate the utility of the capabilities and technologies identified to meet Army’s future communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability requirements.
• Producing the necessary documentation to secure funding to pursue or develop identified future communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability opportunities.

Other duties as required:

Whilst there are no line management responsibilities with this role the incumbent will work closely with a small team of regular and reserve military personnel. As part of a small, whole force team, the successful candidate will be agile to the changing needs of the branch and work flexibly to support the Assistant Head and other colleagues as required. They will need to maintain a broad oversight of all branch activity, and have the ability to call on subject matter expertise as required, and to seize the initiative to identify and treat risks before they become issues.

Open to UK nationals only.

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

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

• Your CV- Job History
• Personal Statement - of no more than 750 words detailing how you meet the essential skills criteria
• Behaviour - Changing and Improving
• Behaviour - Communicating and Influencing

Where a large number of applications are received, an initial sift will be conducted based on the evidence you provide in support of Changing and Improving.

The remaining elements will only be reviewed if you are successful at this initial sift.

At interview stage you will be assessed against the following:

• Experience
• Behaviour - Working Together
• Behaviour - Making Effective Decisions
• Behaviour - Delivering at Pace

Application sifting will be scheduled to take place within 7 days of the application closing date. Interview dates are to be confirmed and will be held in person. We endeavour to keep to these time frames, but these are subject to change around business needs.

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.

There may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all DCS candidates that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as a high volume of applications, seasonal demand, or peak periods, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both DCS and non-DCS applicants.

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.