Di Strategic Competition Group

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

- 265626**Salary**:

- £41,000**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Analytical
- Intelligence
- Planning**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- RAF Wyton, HuntingdonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
DI is part of the Ministry of Defence and provides intelligence support to decision making across all levels of Defence and government and delivers specialist outputs including operations.

SCG is a part of DI Operations that delivers operational activity designed to support the achievement of Defence objectives. This work ultimately contributes to the UK’s strategic advantage against adversaries. SCG activity takes place in close partnership with a range of partners, both within wider DI and other government departments.

As part of UK Strategic Command, DI supports the Chief of Defence Intelligence to ensure that key strategic decisions made by Ministers, senior officials, the Armed Services and the broader National Security Community are informed by high quality, authoritative intelligence advice and assessment.

In DI our people solve problems, create understanding and give perspective to the diverse and complex Defence threats and challenges in a constantly evolving world. Together our civilians and military personnel inform decision making in Defence, manage complex 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 work environment free of discrimination.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The SCG’s Operations Planners are an essential part of supporting the delivery of operations intended to support Defence objectives. A planner’s work will involve engaging and collaborating with partners, particularly DI assessment teams, to find opportunities for operational effect. Planners will be responsible for developing operational concepts from opportunity through to execution.

To be a planner in SCG, you will need to have
- Proven experience of collaboration and adaptability.
- Experience of planning, or an interest in developing knowledge of the planning process.
- Ideally, have a broad range of defence or intelligence experience.

The SCG is a cross-site team meaning this post will require regular working in London.

**Person specification**:
You will have:

- Good leadership skills including an ability to foster an innovative and cohesive working environment.
- Excellent communication skills, confidently engaging with senior managers and customers.
- Ability to work quickly and flexibly; managing a portfolio of work that will vary between long term planning and short notice tasks delivered at pace.
- A background in, or willingness to learn, operational planning, or project or programme management within a relevant security context.
- An understanding of intelligence support to operations.
- Experience of collaborating with other teams or departments to deliver a common goal.
- The skills required for critical thinking.

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

- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:
There are a wide variety of employee benefits for civil service staff in DI, including (this list is not exhaustive):

- Salary Payroll Giving
- Financial Education Resources
- Bicycle Purchase Advance & Cycle to Work Scheme
- Holiday, Season Ticket, Tenancy Deposit & Work Space Salary Advance Loans
- Free Parking (not available at Main Building)
- Generous Pension Scheme with employer contribution between 26.6% & 30.3%
- Death in Service Benefit
- Up to 30 days’ Annual Leave, and one Privilege Day
- Special Leave (including Study Leave and Volunteering Leave)
- Adoption, Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave
- Childcare Vouchers
- On-Site Nursery & Childcare at some MOD sites
- Flexible Working Hours
- Discounted Healthcare Packages
- Eyesight Tests and Spectacles
- Free On-Site Gyms at many sites
- Employee Assistance Programme
- In-Year Reward and Thank You Schemes
- Talent Schemes
- Defence Discounts
- Microsoft & Vodafone Employee Discount Schemes
- Boundless and Civil Service Sports Council Memberships available
- On-site shops, restaurants & cafes at most sites

Further details may be found at Civilian Discover My Benefits (mod.gov.uk)

This post does not offer relocation expenses (