Executive Officers - Army Personnel Centre

The Army Personnel Centre is seeking a motivated and organised Executive Officers within the Career Management Operations Branch to support the delivery of key Army personnel management processes. Working within a collaborative team, you will coordinate complex casework, board and governance activity, manage personnel information, and provide advice to a wide range of stakeholders. You will play an important role in ensuring personnel decisions, appointments, promotions and employment matters are managed accurately, consistently and in accordance with established policy, contributing directly to Army capability and operational effectiveness

These roles offer an excellent opportunity to develop a broad range of skills, gain valuable Civil Service experience, and make a meaningful contribution to delivering public services.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate administrative processes, casework and board activity to ensure delivery against business priorities and deadlines.
• Analyse, validate and maintain personnel information, ensuring accuracy and compliance with data management requirements.
• Prepare reports, submissions, board papers and correspondence for senior decision makers and stakeholders.
• Provide advice and guidance on policies, procedures and personnel management matters.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, delivering a high standard of customer service.
• Monitor workflows and competing priorities, identifying risks and ensuring timely completion of tasks.
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities by reviewing processes and implementing practical solutions.
• Work collaboratively across teams to support wider organisational objectives and operational requirements.

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:

• Behaviour - Communicating and Influencing
• Behaviour - Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Personal Statement - of no more than 500 words detailing how you meet the essential skills criteria

Where a large number of applications are received, an initial sift may be conducted against the Communicating and Influencing 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:

• Experience
• Behaviour - Communicating and Influencing
• Behaviour - Delivering at Pace
• Behaviour - Managing a Quality Service
• Behaviour - Seeing the Big Picture

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.

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