Specialist Procurement Policy Advisor to Secretary

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Full time

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

- 326921**Salary**:

- £75,000**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 1**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 12**Business area**:

- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services**Type of role**:

- Commercial
- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- MOD Main Building, London Whitehall SW1A 2BHAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We have an outstanding opportunity for a Defence industry expert to inform decision making at the most senior levels inside the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Drawing on your depth of procurement and policy experience, you will play an important role tactfully providing specialist advice and guidance to the Secretary of State for Defence, other Ministers and the Permanent Secretary on acquisition, capability and export issues. Your independent analysis and invaluable insight will shape their decision making ahead of key capability investment decisions, and you will be expected to assess and challenge impacted strategies and frameworks.

The role will be a fixed-term appointment for 12 months, with an option to extend.

**Job description**:
Key responsibilities will include:

- Provide coherent, strategic advice at Secretary of State level
- Analyse, assess and judge key trends in defence technology and the global defence industry
- C-suite, complex stakeholder management
- Collaboration across defence industry attending events and briefings to understand capability and technology trends
- Oversees the provision of Ministerial advice on a portfolio of projects.

**Person specification**:

- Successful record of supporting and advising Ministers and Senior Officials,
- Evidence of deep knowledge and expertise in UK and international industrial defence capability,
- Evidence of profile as a thought leader (possibly through publications or public events),
- Accomplished authority in top scale defence procurement issues and policy advice,
- Examples of sharp minded analysis and balanced assessments of complex defence data,
- Experience with multiple multi £bn multi year projects,
- Collaborative and engaging leadership reflecting MOD core values,
- Success in working within a political and commercial environment, illustrating good judgement, emotional intelligence and diplomacy.

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- A **CV** (no more than 2 pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
- A **Personal Statement** (no more than 2 pages) explaining how your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role.

The selection process for this role will consist of formal interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.- This role has a minimum assignment duration of 1 year. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
- As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.**Security**:

- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:

- Open to UK nationals only.**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.- This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.- Once this job has closed,



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