DIO Senior Project Manager Cyprus

Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), Major Programmes & Projects (MPP) - Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) facing team is offering a unique opportunity to work in a high tempo environment. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible to the Assistant Head Major Programmes and Projects (MPP) CSOC Overseas for all Capital Works site based activities carried out in Cyprus.

This is a 3 Year posting with the possibility to extend. It is located in Cyprus and travel will be required on island to perform the duties expected, as well as travel to and from Cyprus to the UK.

Major Programmes and Projects (MPP) is currently undergoing a transformation process to enhance it’s P3M capability across the business. It is a new and challenging concept with many opportunities for personal development and training in all areas of P3M.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The tour length is 3-years.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within MPP - CSOC.

In this role you will be accountable and responsible for delivering sophisticated capital infrastructure delivery, with utmost focus on performance, cost and time and proactively managing our supply chain to perform, ensuring delivery of both life cycle replacement or improvement outcomes. The position will operate within the Major Programmes and Projects (MPP) Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) facing team.

Whilst this position currently requires Security Clearance, there may be a requirement to obtain Developed Vetting at some point in the future, depending on the sensitivity of evolving projects.

In your day-to-day role you will find yourself undertaking the following:

• Lead the team to deliver the agreed project outcomes.
• Supervise delivery of benefits against the business case and ensure appropriate approvals and assurance plans are in place.
• Identify and set appropriate project controls, tracking and reporting delivery against milestones and budgets.
• Schedule and run project resources.
• Manage project partners and connect with them at all levels.
• Identify and supervise project risks and issues and ensure effective change management processes exist.
• Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making and control of projects and their place in a programme and Portfolio.
• Deliver functional project administration and assurance via contractual (NEC) and department wide management systems.

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Evidence of qualifications will be required at interview.

All qualifications/licences declared must be held at point of application and if applicable in date.

Essential Qualifications

Project Management qualification - APMP/APM(PMQ)/Prince2.

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

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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 lead Behaviour or Personal Statement. In this instance the remaining elements will be tested at interview.

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. (750 Words)

Behaviours:

• Leadership

Technical Skill:

• P3M09 Schedule Management

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Technical Skill:

• P3M09 Schedule Management
• P3M11- Budgeting and Cost Control
• P3M12- Risk and Issues Management

Project delivery capability framework - Government Project Delivery

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. Interviews will be conducted face to face at ARMY HQ, Andover, SP11 8HJ

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

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 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.

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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