Army Capability Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer

Job summary

The Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer is a high-profile appointment which will provide applicants the opportunity to engage and work with a wide range of stakeholders in Army Headquarters, ensuring that there is a joined up approach to military capability development. More specifically the incumbent will be responsible for:
Engaging across Army Headquarters Capability Directorate and with external organisations, including the other Front-Line Commands, to ensure that the Army’s Innovation, Research and Experimentation is coherent with the Army’s future digital and data strategy and communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability roadmap.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer is a high-profile appointment which will provide applicants the opportunity to engage and work with a wide range of stakeholders in Army Headquarters, ensuring that there is a joined up approach to military capability development.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Engaging with external organisations, to ensure that the Army’s Innovation, Research and Experimentation is coherent with the Army’s future digital and data strategy and communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability roadmap.
• Attending internal Planning working groups, capability user boards and functional capability working groups to ensure that military capability planning outcomes are coherent with the Army's Land Domain Digital Ecosystem.
• Working with the non-Information Manoeuvre capability planning groups to manage dependencies, highlight opportunities and potential cross cutting activities.
• Working with industry, academia, and the Science and Technology community to identify future developing technologies with the potential to meet identified Army digital capability requirements.
• Interact with DSTL, IHub, Defence and Security Accelerator related Science and Technology activity to support the development of communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability.
• In conjunction with stakeholders, develop use cases to demonstrate the utility of the capabilities and technologies identified to meet Army’s future communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability requirements.
• Producing the necessary documentation to secure funding to pursue or develop identified future communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability opportunities.

Other duties as required:

Whilst there are no line management responsibilities with this role the incumbent will work closely with a small team of regular and reserve military personnel. As part of a small, whole force team, the successful candidate will be agile to the changing needs of the branch and work flexibly to support the Assistant Head and other colleagues as required. They will need to maintain a broad oversight of all branch activity, and have the ability to call on subject matter expertise as required, and to seize the initiative to identify and treat risks before they become issues.

Person specification

Essential Skills and Experience Required:

• Instinctively able to identify what needs to be done, seize the initiative, working across the entire organisation's portfolio as required.
• Able to communicate ideas clearly and accurately, providing clear and objective thought.
• Create convincing and persuasive arguments, with the self-confidence to challenge where appropriate.
• Work at pace to deliver quality outputs against routinely challenging timelines.
• A sound understanding of the digital technology that underpins and enables modern organisations.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience of digitisation within a national security context would be beneficial.
• Technical experience in capability or resource planning is desirable.
• An interest and understanding of digital technology and the opportunities that it can offer the Army would be a significant advantage.
• A broad understanding of Capability Management.
• An understanding and / or experience of capability planning as a capability sponsor.
• Managing Successful Programmes/ Association of Project Management.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

The Army prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.

Other benefits for Army civil servants include:

• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
• Highly competitive pension scheme
• Personal and professional development of skills
• Alternative working patterns for many roles
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a free service that assists you with achieving a productive, healthy environment that is conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• 6 days special leave per year which can be used for volunteering activities
• Learning and Development

We believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference and you will be supported to help you learn and advance in your career. This includes working towards membership of a professional body and/or undertaking a modern apprenticeship as part of your role.

A modern apprenticeship is a combined package of work and training. Through the schemes available you will gain a professional qualification, practical experience, and the broader skills required to develop in your current role and pave the way for your future career.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions