Specialist Instructional Officer Survival Equipment

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

- 269341**Salary**:

- £27,080- Recruitment Retention allowance in addition to annual salary : £3000 PA**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Air - DSAE Cosford, Wolverhampton, Midlands**Type of role**:

- Education and Training**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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Location
- DSAE Cosford, Albrighton, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you a qualified engineer or Armed forces veteran, desirably with experience ideally within the last 10 years who can use your extensive knowledge and skills delivering Aeronautical Engineering training (AE Survival Equipment SE Bias) to the next and future generations of RAF (Royal Air Force) Engineers, encouraging them to be the absolute best they can? Do you have the desire and ability to learn new and sophisticated trade knowledge within your trade discipline? Would you relish the prospect of working alongside military, civilian and commercial partners for the benefit of Defence? Do you want to be part of a team who are encouraged to develop new insights and be innovative in the way we deliver our business? Then you are just the person we are looking for.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Pay rate: Salary plus RRA at £3000 PA (Allowance Reviewed annually)

**Job description**:
The No1 School of Technical Training; a part of the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) located at RAF Cosford provides initial trade training to new recruits as well as advanced career training to existing RAF aeronautical engineers. It also delivers the same aeronautical engineering training to international students under government contract where RAF Cosford has achieved an extremely high success rate leading to increased demand for our perfection in training delivery. RAF Cosford remains a site of growth and expansion with numerous projects and partnership developments being explored and undertaken.

Responsibility:
An instructor's primary duties will include but is not limited to:

- Delivery of technical training (theory and practical AE Survival Equipment SE Bias) to City & Guilds Apprenticeship Level 3 standards.
- Preparing student reports on performance (academic and behavioral).
- Preparing and conducting practical assessments, including marking and recording.
- Developing and controlling training documents and delivery media.
- Proposing improvements to training design and content.
- General course administration.
- Additional support duties crucial for the safe conduct of training and welfare of students.

The post holder will be encouraged to diversify across other trade related topic specialisms after suitable training to improve flexibility and increase capability building business resilience.

**Person specification**:
**Essential**:
Qualified in the AE Survival Equipment SE trade engineering field, minimum level 3 or equivalent, combined with relevant and recent technical and practical experience ideally within the last 10 years.

or;
Have completed a UK Armed Forces Engineering Apprenticeship (AE Survival Equipment SE bias) where trade skills and knowledge, combined with recent technical and practical experience ideally within the last 10 years, is transferable and can be applied within the Aeronautical Engineering domain (please provide details).

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

- Changing and Improving
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others

**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%
- 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 Days upon completion of 5 years service
- 8 public holidays per year
- Minimum of 15 days Special paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for volunteer reserve commitments
- Improved maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Easily accessible road and rail links
- On-site Shop/Café facilities
- Access to gymnasium, swimming pool and outdoor sports facilities
- Free on-site car parking
- Privileged access to the Annual Airshow

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.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Enviro