Army - Contracted Field Support Officer

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

- 378888**Salary**:

- £29,580- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Army**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Andover ,SP11 8HJAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Do you want the opportunity to work in a varied and exciting role with opportunities to develop your contract knowledge and management awareness, build on management information skills and become integral in the administration of Field Army enabling contracts?

In this role, successful applicants will be working to improve upon existing data management processes that provide vital management information to inform key decisions made by the Senior leadership team.

You will ensure business can be transacted as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Providing Subject Matter Expert (SME) advice/guidance to colleagues across the Front Line Commands on the services provided by the tri-service National Roadside Repair and Recovery Contract and the Direct Repair Scheme (DRS) for the supply and fit of Tyres and Windscreens contracts. At all times promoting good and effective customer and supplier engagement.

A key function of this role is to provide support and administration services to the Contracted Field Support (CFS) team. Secretarial responsibilities include facilitating the monthly CFS, Land Business Review Meeting, Management meetings, and quarterly Land Tasking Meetings.

You will manage the flow of repair work requests between Field Army Equipment Branch and Babcock DSG for the Maintenance Repair & Overhaul Service Category.

You will help to create and maintain useful management information tools for the function to increase core capabilities and have the opportunity to develop in several areas such as financial knowledge and awareness, management information skills, assurance and governance skills and operational delivery.

As a civil servant you will work alongside military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which often have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities the Army delivers.

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.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.**Job description**:
An Executive Officer in the Contracted Field Support Team will:

- Directly support the Contracted Field Support (CFS) Team with their duties.
- Provide support to wider Field Army Equipment Operations pillar.
- Monitor, track, validate, and pay supplier invoices using the MODs Finance system.
- Conduct financial analysis, scrutiny, and reporting against the monthly Defence Business Service (DBS) reports.
- Facilitate and complete secretarial duties for monthly and quarterly meetings.
- Provide advice, guidance, and approvals for the use of the NRRRC and DRS contracts.
- Receive, process and track work tasking requests, changes to delivery dates, customer complaints, and maintain the equipment and authorised demander registers for the Service Provision Transformation Contract.
- Develop and maintain Front Line Command work tasking trackers and pipelines.
- Collect and collate management information and data management for the CFS enabling contracts and be responsible for the administration, record keeping, ongoing development and maintenance of the CFS SharePoint site.
- Produce monthly ad-hoc reports for line management and divisional Equipment Support Branches based on the data supplied by contractors.
- Gather and consolidate service level verification data and produce trend analysis reports for the service provider.
- Carryout ad-hoc business and office management requests.

**Person specification**:
Essential Criteria and Experience:

- Strong interpersonal skills
- Applicants should also have effective written and verbal communication skills and display a positive and professional attitude.
- Have the ability to clearly communicate well with stakeholders both internally and externally
- Be a self-motivated and highly organised team member.

Desirable criteria:

- Finance experience
- Business management experience
- MI and Analysis experience

Learning & Development Opportunities:
**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £29,580, Ministry of Defence contributes £8,569 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a C