Digital Content Manager - Defence Capability Management School

The Defence College for Military Capability Integration (DCMCI) is one of the key operating units of the Defence Academy (DefAc). DCMCI trains the UKs Armed Forces as well as Civil Servants, International Allies and Industry Partners, focusing on the ‘technological edge’, leveraging the technology and information necessary to thrive in an increasingly interconnected, complex and ambiguous strategic and operating environment.

This role is within the Defence Capability Management School (DCMS) within DCMCI.

The Defence Capability Management School is focussed on harnessing technology and information to meet the needs of the Direct, Operate, Generate and Enable components of the Defence Operating Model and Functional Leadership.

DCMS Digital Content Manager: responsible creating and managing Defence Learning Environment forums for all Capability and Acquisition, Sustainability and Climate Change, Technical Assurance and Technology Integration related courses. The role will critically assess existing processes and learning resources with a view to maximising Defence investment through continuous improvement and placing the learner at the centre of the learning environment. The role will be responsible for creating new, innovative content, identifying, and exploiting future training opportunities.

The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about training and developing others and has experience delivering educational content with HTML, Bootstrap, Moodle and Mahara.

This vacancy is for a part time/job share only.

Main responsibilities of the role are:

• Design and develop innovative Capability and Acquisition, Climate Change and Sustainability, Technology Integration and Technical Assurance DLE online course material working with the Defence Academy LCaD (J7) Learning and Development Advisor Team.
• Manage the DLE subcategory for all Capability and Acquisition, Climate Change and Sustainability, Technology Integration and Technical Assurance learning material and be accountable for their alignment with Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) policies.
• Manage the DCMCI Neurodiversity Network by championing SpLDs across the college, offering SME support and guidance for staff and students, fielding enquiries and assisting staff to tailor their delivery methods to suit affected students.
• Provide direct educational support for all Capability and Acquisition, Climate Change and Sustainability, Technology Integration and Technical Assurance student’s academic queries.
• Seek opportunities to develop and enhance the use of digitation and technology in training to maximise efficiency and establish training centres of excellence.
• Liaise with Training Requirements Authorities and Academic Providers for all blended learning for Capability and Acquisition, Climate Change and Sustainability, Technology Integration and Technical Assurance.
• Deputise for Hd DCMS as required and wider Group, College and Academy duties, responsibilities and projects as directed by Hd TCG/Dir DCMCI.

This position is advertised at a minimum of 18.5 hours per week and located at the Defence Academy of the UK, Shrivenham. The role is suitable for a mix of home and office working, which currently expects 60% of the working week onsite at Shrivenham.

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.

This recruitment process will consist of two parts:

1. A written application containing your experience (a CV and a 250 word Personal Statement) and 3 Behaviours drawn from the Civil Service Success Profiles.

2. If your written application is successful, you will be invited to a face-to-face interview where you will be assessed against 1 Behaviour from your application, plus 1 additional Behaviour.

At sift, you will be assessed against your CV, Personal Statement the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Changing & Improving
• Communicating & Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service

If a large number of applications are received, they will be assessed initially against your CV and Personal Statement.

At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Changing & Improving
• Delivering at Pace

Please make sure you have consulted the HM Government ‘Success Profiles - Civil Service Behaviours’ document (available on Gov.uk) to ensure you have understood the relevant Behaviours at Level Senior Executive Officer (SEO).

PLEASE NOTE

Sift to take place within 2 weeks of Advert closing. Interviews likely to take place within 2 weeks of Sift.

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.

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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.

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