RAF Digital NEXUS Work Package Delivery Manager

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This is an exciting opportunity to join the NEXUS to Core Delivery Team and contribute to a major Royal Air Force digital transformation programme. As a Work Package Delivery Manager, you will lead delivery activity across one of the programme’s key work packages, working with stakeholders to manage progress, risks, issues and dependencies while ensuring strong governance, clear documentation and effective reporting. The role is well suited to someone with project management experience, strong communication skills and the ability to prioritise work across teams in line with business needs. Given the nature of the role and the requirement to be heavily involved in the day-to-day management of a wide range of teams, technical programmes and projects, job share, or part-time work is not a viable option.

This role is part of the NEXUS to Core Delivery Team. NEXUS is the Royal Air Force (RAF) Air Command and Control (Air C2) transformation programme. The programme consists of the delivery the Air Cloud Hosting Environment; the Air Information Platform; experimentation; and a suite of operational applications. As a NEXUS Work Package Delivery Manager, you will be responsible via the NEXUS Senior Delivery Manager for the following:

• Lead the delivery of one of the Work Packages within the NEXUS programme.
• Own and report on all work package risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and opportunities via regular risk working groups, programme working groups and programme boards
• Oversee the execution of projects, ensuring they adhere to scope, budget, and time constraints.
• Monitor Work Package performance, provide constructive feedback and maintain high productivity and quality standards.
• Cultivate and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders, including others delivery team members, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Address concerns, conflicts, or misunderstandings that may arise between the parties, seeking amicable resolutions and promoting a collaborative working environment.
• Establish and maintain effective Work Package governance structures, processes, and documentation to support Work Package management activities.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including plans, specifications, and progress reports, for monitoring, transparency, knowledge transfer and LFE.
• Prepare and present regular Work Package status reports to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and issues and escalating via the relevant stakeholders as required

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.

At the sift, candidates will be assessed against the following areas:

• Behaviours: Communicating and influencing
• Working together
• ExperienceCV: Job History, Full Qualification Details and Previous relevant Skills & Experience
• A Personal Statement (500 words): Highlighting how your previous skills match the requirements of this role.

At the interview, candidates will be assessed against the following 2 areas:

• Behaviours: Changing and improving
• Delivering at pace
• Technical Experience, we will be asking questions around the following frameworks: Government Project Delivery (GPD) Working in Government Project Delivery , Civil Service Careers

Candidates may also be asked questions related to their experience and how that relates to the advertised position.

Sifting will take place within 1 month of advert closure and interview dates will be confirmed shortly after. Interviews will be held in-person only.

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, 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.