Executive Support Officer

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

- 412697

**Salary**:

- £26,770
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- MOD - Strategic Command - DI - NCGI

**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2EA

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
Are you a motivated and approachable individual with a passion for helping others? Do you have excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, both verbal and written? If so, we want to hear from you

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic professional to join our team. In this role, you will be empowered to provide an outstanding level of service and administrative support within a fast-paced environment, ensuring the highest level of accuracy and customer satisfaction.

The Executive Support Officer role is pivotal in supporting the Station Headquarters Executive Management Team (Stn Execs) and provides them the capacity to focus on high priority tasks in support of The National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI), Defence Intelligence (DI) and Service Personnel (SP). This post will be working as part of the Stn Execs who are responsible for the routine daily running of RAF Wyton.

As an important part of the Ministry of Defence, DI provides intelligence analysis, specialist outputs and advice that supports decision making across government. At the heart of DI is the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI).

This role is advertised at 37 hours per week

**Job description**:
The main responsibilities of this position are:

- Supervise requests for storing of leisure vehicles on site.
- Process and approve requests for keeping pets on Station.
- Coordinate requests to keep Firearms on Station and inside Service Family Accommodation, as per relevant policies.
- Support the management of car parking on site.
- Regularly update and review the Station Programme Plan.
- Assist with co-ordinating Honours and Awards Ceremonies.
- Prepare and set up the monthly Station Arrivals Brief.
- Act as secretary for various station meetings as required. Ensuring accurate records are kept.
- Work with and provide support to the Media and Communications Officer (MCO) on coordinating tasks/events and deputise for the MCO during their absences.

In Defence Intelligence (DI) our people solve problems, create understanding and give perspective to the diverse and complex Defence threats and challenges in a rapidly changing world. Together our civilians and military personnel inform decision making in Defence, manage complex finance programmes and develop new technology.

In DI we believe your unique experiences, view and understanding of the world could provide a vital perspective and contribution to our work. We recognise that great minds do not think alike and are striving to increase our diversity representation at all levels. As an equal opportunities employer we hire, train and promote people based on merit and inspire to create an inclusive workplace free of discrimination. We also offer flexible working arrangements such as flexi-time, job share and compressed hours.

**Person specification**:
This role would suit a well organised individual who is motivated, approachable and demonstrates a willingness to help others.

A strong communicator, both verbally and in writing you will provide an excellent level of service and administrative support with the highest level of accuracy.

**Essential criteria**:

- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.
- Ability to prioritise.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working in an administrative or customer focussed role.

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

- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £26,770, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,755 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We offer a range of excellent benefits including but not limited to the following:

- Leave entitlement - 25-day annual leave allowance per year increasing by 1 day per year (maximum 30 days per year). In addition, 8 statutory Bank Holidays and 1 privilege day per year.
- Complementing our generous annual leave allowance, we also have a flexible working scheme.
- Additional working pattern options - we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work