Countermeasures Analyst

Join the Joint Electronic Warfare Operational Support Centre (JEWOSC)

Play a crucial role in supporting UK Joint Forces by delivering timely and accurate Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS) that enhances operational effectiveness.

At JEWOSC, we provide vital Electromagnetic Operating Environment (EOE) Situational Awareness (SA), enabling key operational capabilities such as threat warning and platform protection.

Who We Are?

An organisation of Defence Intelligence (DI), Joint Electronic Warfare Operational Support Centre (JEWOSC) is dedicated to developing and delivering cutting-edge EWOS to deployed UK forces, ensuring they have the critical information needed to operate safely and effectively in complex electromagnetic environments.

Why Join Us?

A meaningful career – Contribute directly to the success and safety of UK Joint Forces in complex operational environments.

Career development – Benefit from specialist training and Career Professional Development.

A strong team culture – Work alongside skilled professionals who value integrity, collaboration, professionalism, and innovation

This role is advertised at 37 hours per week (unless part time)

In Defence Intelligence (DI) our people solve problems, create understanding and give perspective to the diverse and complex Defence threats and challenges in a rapidly changing world. Together our civilians and military personnel inform decision making in Defence, manage complex finance programmes and develop new technology.

In DI we believe your unique experiences, view and understanding of the world could provide a vital perspective and contribution to our work. We recognise that great minds do not think alike and are striving to increase our diversity representation at all levels. As an equal opportunities employer we hire, train and promote people based on merit and inspire to create an inclusive workplace free of discrimination. We also offer flexible working arrangements such as flexi-time, job share and compressed hours.

Main Responsibilities:

As an Active Counter Measures Programmer (CM) and following essential training, you will:

• Produce, review & update CM Mission Data Files for all supported aircraft platforms for Operations, Trials and Exercises.
• Produce, maintain & review Technical Work Instructions for all aspects of programming and validation as required, providing Workplace Training as directed by the Team Leader.
• Provide remote and face-to-face support to platform Delivery Team's, customers, & industry, attending remote user units, trials sites and meetings as required.
• Undertake learning and development and upskilling as required.

All jobs advertised in DI are subject to fair and open competition.

Open to UK nationals only.

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

Applicants should apply for this role online, via the website.

Assessment at sift and interview will be based on meeting any defined skill/qualification requirements along with a Success Profile element assessment, as detailed in the job advert. The Success Profile elements to be assessed will be outlined within the job advert. The Civil Service Success Profile Framework is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles

Candidates will also be sifted against the following experience criteria:

All applicants will need to provide a personal statement, of no more than (500) words, including evidence of the essential and desirable criteria requested within the job advert.

When completing your personal statement, please read and understand the requirements described in the Person Specification section thoroughly, as this is what your written evidence will be assessed against.

Your layout is entirely your preference; you may choose narrative, bullets, etc. You may choose to address each criteria separately or have examples that cover and evidence several criteria. Please ensure you evidence the requirements and what you have done that relates to the requirements. You don’t have to explain the whole process, focus on what you have done and the skills and experience you have used. Share with us what makes you suited to this role and why, what you can do and the technical and behavioural skills you have that correspond to the requirements, and life experience or passion you have that are linked to this role.

A CV will be required for this position, this cannot be uploaded to the advert. You will submit using the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard in part two of your application, detailing job history, full qualification details and previous skills and experience. Ensure you detail as much information as possible as this will also be scored against relevant experience or transferable skills.

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

Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions

At interview, applicants will be sifted against the following Civil Service Behaviours and skills

Behaviours:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Communicating & Influencing

Role related questions will also be asked at interview.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, the sift will be conducted on your Personal Statement Only. ​

​We would generally expect Behaviour examples to follow the STAR structure and encourage candidates to use this throughout their application.

The sift should take place within two weeks of the job closing and candidates will be informed of the results, at all stages, via the website. Interview dates are to be confirmed.

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

If the successful candidate does not hold the necessary clearances, they will be made a provisional job offer and asked to undergo our vetting procedures. Once the relevant clearances have been obtained a formal job offer will be made and start dates can be discussed. Should the candidate fail to obtain the relevant clearances the provisional job offer will be rescinded. It should be noted that this process can take several months.

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.

Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) generates and operates specialist capabilities, ready to fight across all domains to make the UK secure at home and strong abroad.

Always on, we are across every UK operation, delivering the capabilities you don’t usually see - or those you can’t.

From cyber warriors and medics to intelligence analysts, special forces, educators, and Defence attachés, our collective expertise delivers the warfighting edge Defence needs to deter threats and secure the nation today and prepare for tomorrow.

CSOC unites Defence’s cyber and specialist capabilities under a single, military command alongside the Royal Navy, British Army, and the Royal Air Force - acting as the UK’s fourth Military Command. For more information, please see here.’

Cyber and Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to design the way in which the new Military Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, posts within CSOC are/or may become subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

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