Data Exploitation Officer - Army

The Ministry of Defence, Civil Service workforce is diverse, with many different functions and professions ranging from cyber and digital transformation, police officers, security guards, trainers, human resources, teachers, psychologists, storekeepers, and policy secretariat staff to support the British Army.

This role is the Joint Aviation Command (JAC) lead for Power Platform development and digital process improvement. Working across HQ functions, the postholder will identify opportunities to improve business processes and support the delivery of practical, secure and sustainable digital solutions that enhance operational and corporate outputs.

The postholder will develop and maintain solutions using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and SharePoint, working closely with users to understand requirements, simplify processes and deliver proportionate solutions. They will support the full lifecycle of solutions from initial discovery and design through testing, implementation and ongoing support.

Acting as a focal point for Power Platform capability within JAC, the postholder will promote effective use of Microsoft 365 tools, encourage adoption of approved approaches and ensure compliance with information management, security, Army policy and data protection requirements. They will contribute to the identification and prioritisation of improvement opportunities and support JAC in realising benefits from delivered solutions.

The role supports Joint Aviation Command personnel across operational and enabling functions, including military and civilian staff from across Defence. Development and support of the Aircraft Serviceability Report (ASR+) and other prioritised digital-improvement projects will form part of the role, working under senior personnel and with defined business ownership.

JAC operates in a joint environment delivering Battlefield Helicopters and Aviation Combat Service Support capabilities to Defence. The headquarters is based at Marlborough Lines, Andover, and routinely supports activity across the UK and overseas.

Core experience in Power Platform development and stakeholder engagement is desirable on appointment. Defence-specific governance, compliance and local platform training may be completed following arrival in post.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

As the lead for Power Platform Development within Joint Aviation Command, you will support a diverse customer base of operational personnel across the Royal Navy (RN), British Army, Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as Civil Servants and contractors.

Key responsibilities:

• Engage process owners to discover, map and analyse business processes; identify duplication, delay, rework, manual handling and avoidable risk; and define proportionate future-state requirements before selecting a technical solution.
• Independently design, build, test, deploy, document and maintain Power Apps, Power Automate flows, Power BI dashboards and SharePoint-based solutions for a range of HQ use cases.
• Scope and deliver proportionate minimum viable products at pace, using iterative development, early user testing and active control of requirement expansion to realise benefits as quickly as practicable.
• Provide internal consultancy and constructive challenge, including advice where a requested solution should be simplified, redesigned, reused or delivered through a method other than Power Platform.
• Maintain visibility of requests, work in progress, dependencies, live products, benefits and technical debt; support prioritisation according to operational benefit, effort, risk, reuse potential and business-owner readiness.
• Ensure every solution has appropriate Information Management, data protection, permissions, testing, documentation, business ownership, support, continuity, change-control and retirement arrangements.
• Mentor and advise JAC personnel developing local solutions; promote safe citizen development, reusable components, agreed standards and sustainable handover to reduce dependency on a single developer.
• Measure and communicate adoption, efficiencies and other benefits realised by delivered solutions.
• Develop and support ASR+ as one product within the prioritised JAC digital-improvement portfolio, with scope and priority agreed through the relevant business owner and senior sponsor.

Please note: The successful applicant will be required to complete mandatory and specific training relating to the job within 6 months of taking up the position.

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.

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

• Personal Statement - 250 words demonstrating your relevant skills and experience in line with the essential criteria listed on this advert.
• Behaviour - Communicating & Influencing

Where a large number of applications are received, an initial sift may be conducted against the Personal Statement 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:

Behaviours:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service
• 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.

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.

CANDIDATE INFORMATION

Please read this document prior to completing your application.

Please note: internal candidates must include their staff number when prompted during the application process.

Should you have any queries relating to the vacancy information or sift and interview process, please contact the recruiting line manager using the contact details listed on the vacancy. Please do not direct vacancy related queries to the recruitment team as they will be unable to advise.

FURTHER INFORMATION

CV’s

Should the selection process require a CV, you will be prompted to complete the required criteria during the application process. CV’s sent directly to the recruiting line manager will be deleted immediately to maintain anonymity.

Civil Servants (all grades)

Applicants should monitor their Civil Service Jobs application centre regularly for updates.

Some of MoD’s Terms and Conditions of Service (TACOS) changed from 3 February 2014. Those TACOS changes applied to Broader Banded and Skill Zone staff who were new recruits to MoD or who were appointed to a post on substantive promotion, progression or advancement. On the same basis, the TACOS for Departmental Retained Grades changed with effect from 01 September 2014.

Applicants should be aware that any move across the Civil Service on or after 5 October 2018 may have implications on an employee’s ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers.

Please see link below to Civil Service Recruitment Principles http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RECRUITMENT-PRINCIPLES-April-2018-FINAL-.pdf

Please see the MOD Privacy notice which informs how we will use your personal data, explains your rights and gives you information you are entitled to under Data Protection legislation.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-defence-privacy-notice/mod-privacy-notice

Non Civil Servants

All employees joining MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period effective from the employment start date.

COMPLAINTS

Please be aware that the selection and interviewing of applicants is the responsibility of the Recruiting Line Manager (RLM) and not the Defence Business Services (DBS) Resourcing team. DBS does not play any part in the selection and interview process itself.

Therefore, if you wish to discuss your feedback, or you are dissatisfied with your markings, you should in the first instance raise this with the Recruiting Line Manager of the vacancy.

If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint. by writing to DBS at the following address:

Defence Business Services

Scanning Hub

Room 6124

Tomlinson House

Norcross Lane

Blackpool

FY5 3WP

FOR EXTERNAL VACANCIES If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address:

Civil Service commission

Room G/8

1 Horse Guards Road

London

SW1A 2HQ

Or by email: info@csc.gov.uk

Cabinet Office Fraud Checks

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant whose details are found to be held on the IFD will be refused employment

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