Defence Digital

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

- 321563**Salary**:

- £24,040- Allowances - A Market Skills allowance of up to £3k per annum may be applicable to this role, paid in increments upon reaching agreed criteria.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- E1**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Strategic Command**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Digital
- Security
- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 3Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NRAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are Defence Digital, part of Strategic Command, fulfilling an important role in the age of information warfare within the Ministry of Defence (MOD). We provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via various communication means including radio, satellite, and the internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we're aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world.

If you can see yourself contributing to the world of Defence digital and technology, the next chapter of your career may be with us

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
Crypto Services for Defence (CSD) is a dynamic, fast paced, cyber-focused environment, vastly advancing and developing to meet with emerging technologies, to provide security of MOD data.

We are recruiting for 3 positions within CSD, in our Key Ordering Team, the Electronic Key (EKey) team and the Accounts team.

In our Accounts team, the role will provide support in the ordering, management, distribution, and in-service provision of all Cryptographic services, across Defence. Due to the nature of work this role is office based at MOD Corsham.

In our EKey team, the role will manage EKey delivery and ensure all cryptographic material is authorised for issue and delivered on time. Due to the nature of work this role is office based at MOD Corsham.

In our Key Ordering team, the role will manage the ordering to distribution of cryptographic material, and in-service provision of all Cryptographic services across Defence set within MOD polices. Following training this role may be open to Hybrid working possibly up to 2 days working from home with 3 days in the office, whilst being flexible to meet the business need.

Our commitment to your development is fundamental at Defence Digital. We will provide as many learning opportunities as we can, allowing you to gain industry recognised qualifications, as well as in-house training within your field and beyond. We’ll support your development within the role from day 1.

We don’t expect you to know everything but you’ll need the passion and motivation to learn, allowing us to support your continuous professional development. We also provide great benefits including flexible working, a generous leave allowance, a wide range of discount services and a market-leading Civil Service pension.

A Market Skills allowance of up to £3k per annum is applicable to this role and is paid in increments, upon reaching agreed criteria.

**Responsibilities may include**:

- Management of COMSEC Electronic Key (EKey) delivery to all MOD and FSC (Facilities Security Cleared) accounts.
- Ensure all cryptographic material is authorised for issue and work across teams to effect timely delivery.
- Ensure all EKey processes and procedures / local working instructions are updated and stored at the appropriate classification and reviewed annually.
- Coordinate and support implementation of continuous improvement across CSD and the wider C&DC, supporting the organisational design work as and when this is implemented.
- Assist with the Business Continuity Plans (BCP) to assure resilience across the business so that the corporate function of operations is maintained during times of BCP initiation.
- Working closely with the Knowledge & Information Manager to ensure appropriate record keeping / audit trails are kept to a high standard.
- Build positive and effective relationships across CSD, C&DC and wider stakeholders to enable business goals to be efficiently and effectively delivered.
- Assist in preparing Management Information (MI), including analysis, for regular management meetings, then disseminating relevant information to the wider department/organisation when required.
- Provide functional support to the CSD workforce including preparing document for recruitment boards, providing job descriptions for new posts, onboarding and general ongoing personnel management.

**Person specification**:
If you have the following knowledge, skills, and experience, we would love to hear from you
- Ability to work effectively in an inc