Controls & Assurance Lead

About DIO MPP – Nuclear Infrastructure

As the MOD’s infrastructure expert DIO has a significant role to provide defence-wide, advice, guidance and delivery of strategic estates management, strategic asset management, disposals and acquisitions and major programme and project delivery as well as the management and leadership of the supply chain.

The continuous at sea deterrent is strategically critical output for UK Defence and the infrastructure that supports the current capability, and wider submarine operations, in preparation for future capability requires significant investment.

DIO Nuclear Directorate provides a mission aligned infrastructure service to the CASD, providing major capital programme delivery, estates and infrastructure services to our Front-Line Commands and Agencies. The directorate is responsible for the delivery of the existing demand, the development of the next demand and the planning of future demands alongside our Royal Navy, Submarine Delivery Agency and Defence Nuclear Organisation sponsors.

The portfolio of work comprises a number of complex estates and infrastructure projects including;

• The Clyde Infrastructure Programme; a £1.8B programme of work of new build facilities and refurbishment to support current and future operations on HMNB Clyde. The programme of work is part of Government Major Programmes & Projects and is considered a top 100 government programme.
• Programme Euston: a complex engineering and construction project to ensure readiness for the Submarine Flotilla’s newest addition, Dreadnought class submarines.
• Future Programme Development: to determine the future investment strategy to ensure the infrastructure across our estate meets the MOD’s nuclear infrastructure demand.

This is an exciting time to join the team, the delivery environment is both challenging and rewarding.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Governance:

• Manage the delivery governance on behalf of the Programme. Provide secretariat function to the Sponsor Boards and Programme Boards.
• Lead on the production of DMPP and GMPP reporting, co-ordinating across your programme and customer functions.
• Maintain governance to organisational objectives and departmental standards and frameworks ensuring alignment.
• Critically appraise delivery forecasts, apply management interventions to achieve agreed business output
• Develop and maintain programme controls documentation e.g. Programme Risk, Schedule and Performance Management Plans. Ensuring Projects and Programmes have PCT management plans.
• Take a strategic view across the programme and in consideration of DIO overall business objectives highlight conflicts and issues, identify and exploit opportunities, identify and mitigate risk

Assurance:

• Develop and maintain a process that assures Business Cases across the programme have maximum chance of success and assure the quality of the business case and its compliance with departmental standards.
• Track business cases through the Forward Approvals Plan (FAP), track and issue out notes and letters of delegation. Track project performance against approved P50/ P90 time and cost envelopes to support reference class forecasting. You will actively manage and coordinate the customer team’s effort to achieve key approval milestones.
• Lead and co-ordinate the implementation of departmental reviews such as IPA reviews on behalf of the Programme Director.

Supplier Management

• You will support the ongoing development of the Clyde Commercial Framework (CCF) and Nuclear Technical Service Provider (NTSP) to ensure they are suitable to deliver the programme of projects.
• You will develop the performance measurement metrics for both frameworks and ensure they are aligned to programme objectives.
• You will ensure that the performance measurement metrics are used consistently across the CIP and produce management information for the executives of both DIO and the Suppliers.
• You will lead on continuous improvement initiatives across the frameworks.

Directorate Business Management

• Lead the workforce planning function for the programme.
• Ensure that staff are actively engaged in the demand planning process to maximise the utilisation of funds and achieve greatest benefit for Users and the Estate
• Contribute to the evolution of strategic requirements and development of the programme with SME advice
• Accountable for applying appropriate governance and management controls, adherence to Health and Safety policy and also financial and managerial delegations
• Track and manage the manning requirements and recruitment including ABC bidding.
• Manage programme Engagement and response to people survey, D MPP business plans.

Continuous Improvement

• You will implement an LFE programme across the programme.
• You will ensure that your programme uses LFE to plan for better outcomes in the future and you will evaluate and update as necessary programme documentation, standards, and templates.

Wider DIO business and improvement

• Support wider Government initiatives including OGC Reviews and Government Construction Strategy
• Responsible for delivery of communications and engagement activities for major team/function in line with DIO Corporate Communications strategic messaging and wider MOD communications policy and guidance
• Undertake/support activity in relation to Strategic Asset Management including liaising on proposed activities and advising of possible opportunities
• Undertake or support activities in relation to continuous improvement and procurement initiatives
• Ensure that the deep expert knowledge of Defence, the Department, DIO and the construction industry that exists in the MPP resource pool is energised to contribute to the development of the Estate. This will be both proactive, providing delivery perspective, and in response to strategic initiatives as and when required.

Open to UK nationals only.

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

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Experience:

Candidates will be required to complete an online CV template to include job history and full details of education and qualifications. Please also include any relevant responsibilities and achievements.

Candidates will be required to complete a Personal Statement of no more 500 words, providing details relevant to the essential and desirable experience in the job advert.

The requirements for the role have been benchmarked and these will be used to sift all candidates, with those meeting the minimum requirements invited to interview.

At interview, you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Technical Skills

• Governance - Project Delivery Capability Framework
• Assurance - Project Delivery Capability Framework

Technical Skills - Framework: 6.7775_IPA_Project Delivery Capability Framework 2021 Refresh sample pages

This role is only available to Sole British Nationals. If you apply for this position and are then found to be a dual national, we have the right to reject your application and not proceed to the next stage.

Candidates who are found to meet an acceptable standard at interview but are not successful in one of the advertised posts may be considered for similar roles within the Business Unit.

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.

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