DIO Falkland Islands Assurance Manager

About the Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK’s largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation to runways for the F35 fighter jets, our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!

About DIO Role

DIO RD Overseas & Training Region (OS & Trg) is made up of three operational areas; Permanent Joint Operating Bases (PJOBs), Overseas and the Defence Training Estate (DTE). It is responsible for managing the DTE enabling Defence and other authorised users to train for and meet their operational liabilities, maintaining a safe and legal built estate across the UK Strategic Command deployed operating bases and the Army’s overseas estate.

The tour length is 2 years with the option to extend by a further year ( pending approvals) 2+1

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

DIO Regional Delivery PJOBs manages the delivery of the DIO contracted, and, where appropriate, in-house facilities management and associated services to military users within the region. This includes essential contract management and key relationship management with senior users, key suppliers and other elements of DIO.

As the DIO Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for fundamental estate assurance activities in the Falkland Islands in accordance with Estate Management 02 (EM02) and other necessary assurance methodology. In conjunction with the Overseas Prime Contract (OPC) Soft and Hard Facilities Management (FM) contractor, you will ensure that value for money is achieved by monitoring, identifying, and tracking significant issues. This will cover requirements in the contract deliverables and Additional Works that form part of the Falklands Command Infrastructure Delivery Plan (CIDP). This post brings with it the opportunity to deliver valuable high profile works on a busy estate which has a unique profile and level of importance within the MOD. Working within an exciting environment and delivering to a 1* customer embedded within a joint service team there are developmental and career improving opportunities.

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, Experience and Technical skills.

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the:

• Technical Skill: Functional Competence EM1.7 (BIFM 19) Estate Compliance Management (Practitioner) -Deploys and develops estate specific systems, processes and techniques in order to achieve and monitor compliance in service delivery’.
• Personal Statement

In this instance the remaining elements will be tested at interview.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

CV and Personal Statement.

Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Working together
• Managing a Quality Service

Career history and previous skills and experience:

Essential:

The post holder needs to be able to prioritise fundamental tasks effectively and work collaboratively with a range of other people to achieve common goals.

The successful candidate also needs to have excellent communication skills, being able to communicate complex and important information to a diverse group of colleagues.

It is vital that the post holder can develop strong, effective, and mutually beneficial working relationships, both with the Contractor and the wider MOD community.

Experience in Facilities Management and in carrying out successful assurance activities is essential.

Also essential is technical experience of 'Estate Management Competence Framework'

• EM1.7 Practitioner- Deploys and develops estate specific systems, processes and techniques in order to achieve and monitor compliance in service delivery.

Desirable:

Experience of Estate Management Practitioner Guide 02 (EM02).

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Working together
• Managing a Quality Service

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Technical Skills:

• ‘Estate Management Functional Competence Framework - EM1.7 Practitioner - Deploys and develops estate specific systems, processes and techniques in order to achieve and monitor compliance in service delivery’.

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.

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.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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 mitigation's can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

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