Navy Command Maritime Reserves Appraisals

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 266662**Salary**:

- £27,080- 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.The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer).**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Band D**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Navy**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Education and Training
- Governance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Faslane Port, Scotland, G84 8HLAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a friendly and supportive environment? Are you good with people and an efficient organiser? Are you self motivated, energetic and open to change? Then this could be the role for you

The Maritime Reserves are a people-focused organisation who recruit, train, support and deploy reservists around the world, in support of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. There are Reserve units in 20 cities across the UK supported by a headquarters located in Portsmouth. Reservists are part time personnel who attend their local unit for evening training nights and who attend regional activities usually run over weekends. As part of the Royal Navy, reservists receive an annual assessment of their performance and potential to support presentation at annual promotion boards.

This post is responsible for managing all reports for Maritime Reserves headquarters personnel, while delivering governance and oversight around the monitoring and timely submission of annual reports for the Maritime Reserves. There is a requirement to deliver training and support to regional appraisals coordinators, reservists, reporting officers and regular personnel based within the units and the headquarters. The maintenance of digital training resources is required (training given to support this if needed); innovation and thinking ‘outside the box’ is encouraged to ensure that all types of learning needs are met with maximum accessibility and availability key for our reservists in particular. Working closely with the Faslane Appraisals Office and the Royal Navy Workforce Appraisals and Career Progression Team for the Reserves, you will be someone who can work collaboratively, build supportive relationships and who is able to listen to alternative perspectives and needs. Visiting each of the units, once every 18 months, this post does involve travel and the opportunity to get out into the regions to get to know the customer and the challenges they face. This is an extraordinary opportunity to be part of an innovative and forward-thinking team, determined to deliver a first class service in support of serving military personnel.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
Key desirable skills for this role are:

- an ability to communicate at all levels;
- a good understanding of quality control linked to grammar and spelling;
- well developed interpersonal skills;
- an ability to identify and reasonably challenge processes in place to improve delivery;
- an understanding of different learning needs; and,
- a willingness to develop the role to meet the needs of an organisation going through a substantial amount of change.

When required, this role does involve travel to UK based Maritime Reserve units to deliver support and training and, this may take place over evenings and the occasional weekend.

In Navy Command, our civil servants work alongside their military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which often have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities we deliver.

Roles can offer great job satisfaction and there are many opportunities to develop and progress both within the Department and across the wider Civil Service.

**Person specification**:
Although not essential this post will suit someone who is computer literate around O365, Excel, Outlook and oracle based systems. You should have the ability to engage effectively with multidisciplinary teams and to show an appreciation of how your role contributes to the wider organisational picture. Experience of communicating and working with others in a team to support managers is desirable.

The key elements of this role are:

- To liaise with other departments, units and branch leads to identify any issues affecting appraisal reporting and to ensure the completion of reports within the promulgated timelines. (20%)
- To visit each of the Maritime Reserve units once every 18 months to deliver support and training to regional appraisals coordinators, reservists and unit permanent staff. (10%)
- To maintain a good level of knowledge regarding policy changes and to promulgate this throughout the organisation. (10