Army - Human Machine Teaming Project Accelerator

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

- 376346**Salary**:

- £43,080- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Business Management and Improvement**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Army HQ, Andover, SP11 8HJAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Ministry of Defence employs over 50,000 Civil Servants. Within that, the Army Top Level Budget (TLB) employs around 7,000 MOD Civil Servants located at over 300 locations. Ours is a diverse work-force including many different functions and professions delivering key outputs for the Army. As such, project management and acquisition skills are vital.

In Army Futures, our role is to help the British Army win. We do this by ensuring the Army keeps pace with social, political, technological and environmental changes and the speed at which our adversaries adapt. We then operate as an engine for research, innovation, analysis and experimentation to determine how the Army must be structured, trained and equipped in the future.

The post involves commissioning and oversight of research and experimentation projects for new and developing technologies and working with military and Civil Service colleagues across the Ministry of Defence to bring these into service.

This an exciting role that combines project management with military capability, science and technology and acquisition skills to enable the Army to win in battle. It sits in the Future Force Development branch, in the Research and Experimentation (R&E) team which is responsible for filling the knowledge gaps to inform capability development choices, nested in Army and Defence priorities, testing hypotheses and validating solutions.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
2. You will support the Army Colonel to help the Army to securely exploit ground-breaking science and technology (S&T) by helping to establish and maintain links between different Army HQ branches, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the Land Warfare Centre and Industry. You will assist with the planning of exploitation activity to rapidly mature selected technologies using commercial routes in partnership with these organisations.

3. You will assist the Army Colonel with supporting collaboration with the US, Allied and partner nations, ensuring interoperability and exploitation through burden sharing, or UK adoption of proven technology. You will be required to contribute to the production of business cases.

4. You will be working in a mixed military/civilian team including contractors in a fast moving but supportive environment. You will need to be able to brief both verbally and in writing.

5. You will help to ensure that research projects are initiated, funded, conducted with-in applicable policy and guidance and remain broadly aligned to the business case, balancing time, cost and quality. The actual project work will most likely be conducted by DE&S/Dstl but you will need to assist with the oversight, direction and driving force. You will need to work with multiple industry partners to push forward the innovation and fielding at pace of new and developmental capability.

6. The role may involve occasional travel to meetings outside the Andover area and sometimes outside the UK so we require someone who is able and willing to travel in the UK and possibly abroad.

**Person specification**:
Essential criteria:

- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent business case writing skills

Desirable criteria:

- Broad experience with MOD (or other UK government department) acquisition and capability development processes
- Some experience of working in an Science and Technology focused role or organisation. Experience of project sponsorship and of requirements management.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,480 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

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

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