Information Capability School

**Details**:
**Reference number**:
190333

**Salary**:
£33,700

**Grade**:
Other

Retained Grade 142 Burnham Lecturer

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Business area**:
MOD - Strategic Command - Information Capability School (ICS), Information Warfare Group, Defence College for Military Capability Integration, Defence Academy of the UK

**Type of role**:
Education and Training

**Working pattern**:
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Compressed Hours

**Number of posts**:
1

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Location

Watchfield, South East (region), SN6 8LA

About the job

**Summary**:
The ICS is part of the Information Warfare Group (IWG) within the Defence College for Military Capability Integration at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. The IWG also comprises the Defence Cyber School and the Defence Simulation Centre. The ICS team comprises 9 staff (5 military and 4 civil servants) all having a teaching role in delivering the ICS suite of Information Management (IM) courses. These courses are essential in supporting Defence in meeting its Digital Strategy and enabling Defence Transformation. The C2 Burnham Lecturer (BL) will be an integral part of the ICS team and will manage, deliver, design and review Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) compliant Training & Education (T&E) to the newly appointed IM professionals from across Defence and other organisations.

The BL will ensure effective delivery of Training and Education (T&E) to the IM professional cadre of Senior Information Officer, Information Manager, Information Capability Support Teams and Record Managers.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The main responsibilities of the role are:
1. To lecture on all IM courses delivered by ICS.

2. To design, develop and maintain training resources for your specific area of specialism; work collaboratively with all staff to ensure that all training resources are kept up to date.

3. To liaise with Course Sponsors where necessary to ensure that all outcomes are being met.

4. To manage specified IM Courses; establishing and monitoring course content and delivery.

5. Ensure that both internal and external validation is supported.

6. To establish and maintain currency on core IM Applications relating to delivery of courses.

7. To regularly attend information related workshops / seminars / conferences [both internal and external to the department] to maintain professional effectiveness.

If you need to contact Defence Business Services (DBS) regarding this vacancy, please indicate that your vacancy is being handled by Resourcing Team 1.

**Responsibilities**:
Primary Responsibilities:
The Burnham Lecturer will ensure effective delivery of Training and Education (T&E) to the Information Management professional cadre of Senior Information Officer, Information Manager, Information Capability Support Teams and Record Managers.

Secondary Responsibilities:
The Burnham Lecturer will be an integral part of the Information Capability School team and will manage, deliver, design and review DSAT compliant T&E to the newly appointed IM professionals from across Defence and other organisations.

**Qualifications**:
In addition to this, a teaching qualification that equates to at least level 5 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) i.e. Cert Ed, is required. (The Postgraduate Certificate in Education is at level 6 on the QCF and is desirable.) In exceptional circumstances, individuals may be recruited to the BL Group without such a teaching qualification. In this case there should be an agreement as part of the job offer that a teaching qualification will be undertaken and should be completed within two standard academic years. This should be included in recruitment advertisements. Successful achievement of the qualification is a requirement to retain employment.

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

- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Developing Self and Others

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Presentation

**Benefits**:
Some of the many benefits you will receive:

- Flexi-time scheme upon completion of 6 months service or the Line Manager has the ability to adopt flexible working sooner than the 6 month period.
- Move to an alternative Working Patterns (there are 9) after the Probation period.
- Professional and Personal Development of skills with the opportunity to undergo an Apprenticeship in Human Resources.
- Opportunity to join more than one of our many networks (Race, LGBT+, Gender, Disability and Faith & Belief).
- Minimum of 18 Days Special Paid Leave in a rolling 12-month period for Public Duties commitments (such as a Magistrate).
- Special Paid Leave for community volunteering up to 12 days a year for Special Constables and 6 days a year for other volunteering.
- Enhanced