RAF Air Cadet Infrastructure Regional Manager

Join the Infrastructure Team at Headquarters RAF Air Cadets, based at RAF Cranwell, and play a key role in supporting cadet units across the UK.

Working within a small, dedicated team, you will help ensure facilities remain safe, compliant and fit for purpose, enabling young people to benefit from a wide range of training and development opportunities.

This is a varied and rewarding role that offers the opportunity to develop skills in project delivery, stakeholder management, planning and problem solving.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC) is one of the UK's largest uniformed youth organisations, providing life-changing opportunities for thousands of young people through aviation, adventure training, sport and leadership activities.

As an Infrastructure Regional Delivery Manager, you will play a key role in managing a diverse portfolio of infrastructure requirements that support the safe and effective delivery of cadet activities.

As part of the Infrastructure Team at Headquarters RAF Air Cadets, you will support approximately 500 RAF Air Cadet sites. Acting as the principal infrastructure contact for RAF Air Cadet Regions, you will work closely with volunteers, military personnel, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) colleagues and external delivery partners to identify requirements, manage priorities and support the delivery of estate improvements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the delivery of infrastructure projects and Billable Works from initial requirement through to completion
• Monitoring estate compliance and maintaining infrastructure records
• Identifying, assessing and managing infrastructure-related risks, escalating issues where required
• Coordinating remedial works arising from compliance inspections and assurance activity
• Providing advice and guidance to volunteers and stakeholders on infrastructure policy, processes and delivery.
• Liaising with delivery partners to monitor progress, manage stakeholder expectations and resolve issues
• Supporting the development of future infrastructure requirements and securing the necessary approvals and consents

The role requires occasional travel throughout the UK to visit RAF Air Cadet sites and attend meetings with stakeholders and delivery partners. This will include some overnight stays away from home.

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 application stage, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Experience (assessed through CV and/or Personal Statement)

• Previous experience in a customer focused role Managing competing priorities.
• Providing advice and support to customers or stakeholders.
• Identifying and managing risks and issues.
• Coordinating projects, activities or programmes of work.

In the event of a significant number of applications, an initial sift may be conducted on Communicating and Influencing, Working Together and Previous Experience in similar roles. Candidates who are successful at the initial sift will then progress to a full sift.

Candidates who are successful at sift stage may be asked to deliver a presentation at interview stage. This will be confirmed upon invite to interview.

At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Experience:

• Managing or coordinating tasks, projects or work programmes to agreed deadlines.
• Working with a range of stakeholders and building effective working relationships.
• Identifying, assessing and escalating risks or issues.
• Providing advice, guidance or customer support to stakeholders.
• Managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes in a busy environment.
• Maintaining accurate records and producing written reports or correspondence.

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.