Army - People Performance and Appraisal Manager

16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team (16 AA BCT) is the Defence’s Very High Readiness organisation specifically trained to deploy on operations at short notice worldwide.

HQ 16 AA BCT is looking for an outgoing and motivated individual, with strong inter personal skills and an eye for detail, to be part of an innovative and high performing team with a focus on providing outstanding customer service.

Responsible for coordinating and administering the end to end performance appraisal process across the Brigade, this includes managing appraisal reports for approximately 250 personnel, as well as processing and quality assuring reports submitted to senior leaders within the Brigade for review and endorsement. The team provides advice and guidance to managers and staff, ensures compliance with appraisal policies and procedures, monitors reporting deadlines, and maintains accurate personnel records.

Through effective administration and stakeholder engagement, the team enables the timely and accurate delivery of appraisal reporting, supporting workforce management, talent development, and career progression across the organisation.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The role requires excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to build effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior military and civilian leaders.

Main Role Responsibilities:

• Manage the end to end performance appraisal process for personnel and wider Brigade reporting requirements, ensuring all reports are completed accurately, meet organisational standards, and are submitted within prescribed deadlines.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance to managers, staff and senior leaders on appraisal policy, procedures, reporting requirements and best practice, acting as the primary point of contact for appraisal related enquiries.
• Coordinate and quality assure appraisal reporting activity, reviewing reports for accuracy, completeness and compliance, and ensuring submissions are prepared for review and endorsement by senior leaders.
• Monitor, track and report on appraisal performance and compliance, maintaining accurate personnel records, producing management information, identifying overdue actions, and supporting workforce planning and assurance activities.
• Develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships across the Brigade, liaising with military and civilian personnel to resolve issues, improve processes, and ensure the efficient delivery of appraisal and personnel management activities.
• Lead Staff Officer for the Brigade on State and Honours and Award: Raise timetable for submission into the HQ
• Undertake accuracy checks on nominations
• Provide feedback
• Deliver secretariat duties to the Brigade Assurance Board
• Ensure nominations are submitted in time

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.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability in no more than 500 words.

At sift, you will be assessed against your CV, Statement of suitability and the following behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

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, you will be assessed against the following behaviours:

• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving
• 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.