Army Infrastructure Executive Officer

The British Army’s estate is complex, diverse and critical to ensuring defence outputs. Regional Command Infrastructure Branch, of which you will be part of, has a fully integrated & co-ordinated workforce of regular & reserve army, civil servants and contractors. Our diverse workforce primarily focuses on ‘The Firm Base’. Together, we look after facilities management for Army barracks across Central England and Wales.

This post is an exciting opportunity to begin a career within an essential part of the infrastructure delivery profession. You will support the Staff Officer Grade 2 for all facilities management in the North East Region. Based out of Bourlon Barracks, you will build a strong understanding of the military community, including both Regular and Reserve Units, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and Industry Partners (IPs) as well as the Reserve Forces and Cadet Associations (RFCA) for the North of England and Yorkshire. You will ensure soldiers are supported and advised on the total Facilities Management (FM), both Hard and Soft, situation within their Stations.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

As an Executive Officer within Regional Command Infrastructure Branch, you will develop valuable skills in stakeholder engagement, analysis, planning and facilities management while helping to ensure the Army estate continues to support operational readiness and the wellbeing of service personnel.

Main Role Responsibilities:

• Obtain and evaluate establishment needs and priorities, apprising the Regional Infrastructure Cell (RIC) Forward. Infra lead of analysis, to enable them to inform RIC planning and Balance of Investment (BoI) decisions.
• Obtain and evaluate establishment needs and priorities in order to inform the Chain of Command and enable decision support.
• Support RIC Forward. activities by liaising with Heads of Establishment (HoE) and their designated representatives as well as representatives of the DIO, RFCA and their contracted Service Providers.
• Support the communication of the planned Command Infrastructure Delivery Plan (CIDP) works schedule to interested parties, HQ North Command, HoE, DIO, RFCA.
• Capture and notify establishment issues and risks to allow consolidation of trends as well as trend analysis, and subsequent escalation where required.
• Identify breaches in service delivery performance within designated Area of Operation and assist in resolution where appropriate.
• Collate establishment feedback on Hard and Soft FM contracted service delivery satisfaction to report performance standards to the RIC.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) contribution to Sites on Infrastructure and FM issues.
• Manage the Infra SharePoint page so that it is an informed forward repository of FM information easily navigable by stakeholders, from Regional Command to local level, across the stakeholder community

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

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

At the application stage, you will be assessed against the following criteria, listed in priority order:

• Behaviour - Working together
• Personal Statement - of no more than 500 words detailing how you meet the essential skills criteria
• Behaviour - Communicating & influencing

Where a large number of applications are received, an initial sift may be conducted against the Working Together element only. The remaining evidence submitted at the application stage will be assessed only if you are successful at this initial sift.

At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following criteria, listed in priority order:

• Your Experience
• Behaviour 1 - Delivering at Pace
• Behaviour 2 – Managing a Quality Service
• Behaviour 3 - Working Together

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.