Military Establishment Advisor - Army

Headquarters Army Individual Training Command (AITC) purpose is to develop mentally and physically resilient soldiers and officers who exemplify the Army’s Values and Standards and are outstanding at the basics of soldiering and leading.

Our Vision is to be world leading in human performance, training, education and leadership. We will develop, train and inspire soldiers and officers to ensure they are ready to thrive in life and win on the battlefield. AITCs approach is data driven and based on the most up-to-date thinking in welfare, education and human performance.

AITCs main effort is to develop a cohort of professional, trained and motivated instructors. AITC will ensure that the Army receives well-trained, disciplined, motivated, and adaptable soldiers and officers, ready to contribute to combined arms manoeuvre and physically and mentally ready to fight and win.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

As a key member of the Operations and Plans team within HQ AITC, the Military Establishment Advisor is responsible for managing establishment change through the effective use of MOD information management systems. This is a predominantly process-driven position that plays an important role in ensuring organisational structures remain aligned to operational requirements.

The successful candidate will provide advice and guidance to units across AITC on change management, workforce recruitment matters and liability composition. They will also support organisational planning and restructuring activity within HQ, contributing to wider projects and strategic initiatives as required.

Working as part of a small, supportive team, the post offers a good degree of autonomy, requiring the ability to manage priorities effectively while building strong relationships with a range of stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain the Command’s liability and AITC Establishment Tables, ensuring resourcing data remains accurate and up to date, annual reviews are completed, liability amendments are processed through the System Liability Information Management (SLIM) system within agreed timescales, and changes arising from published Implementation Orders (IOs) are implemented within three months of publication.
• Act as AITC’s Subject Matter Expert and sole user of the System Liability Information Management (SLIM) system, providing specialist advice, resolving user queries, liaising with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met, and coordinating the reporting and resolution of system issues, enhancements and change requests within agreed timelines.
• Provide expert advice to AITC Operational Groups on complex liability requirements, workforce composition, rank structures and employment categories, ensuring proposed changes meet business needs and comply with Army policy, while maintaining awareness of current and future initiatives, reorganisations and resubordinations affecting the Command.

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.
• Behaviours
• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing & Improving

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
• Communicating & Influencing
• Changing & Improving
• Working Together
• 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.

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.

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.