Team Leader Exploration Division

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

- 299383**Salary**:

- £44,667 - £51,677- Salary will be dependant on experience and skills**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- Dstl Level 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DSTL - Exploration Division - Futures and Innovation Group,**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement
- Operational Delivery
- Operational Research
- Project Delivery
- Senior leadership**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Dstl Portsdown West, Portsmouth, Fareham, PO17 6ADAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Exploration division enhances UK Defence and Security by providing innovative and world-leading equipment to our forces, as well as transformative concepts to create strategic advantage over others, helping our customers to discover and exploit things that no one else has.

We currently are recruiting for a permanent **Team Leader** in the **Futures and Innovation Group** in Exploration division, based at Portsdown West.

As Dstl’s first line of management, your primary purpose as a Team Leader (TL) is to provide leadership to the people in your team. This has a balance of leading / managing people and technical leadership, ensuring the development and delivery of capability to meet current and future demand.
A Team Leader may also fulfil other roles as part of their technical contribution but not to the detriment of their line management responsibilities.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

**We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.**

**Job description**:
**Team Leaders, Futures and Innovation Group, Exploration Division**

Futures and Innovation Group is the Dstl hub for the Futures analysis expertise and Sustainability.

In Futures Analysis we are the focal point for work to understand the generation-after-next concepts that could have a transformative impact on defence. We are the home of best practice and advice to identify and assess emerging trends, capabilities and technologies; the lead for imagining and developing transformative technologies, concepts and systems; and identify innovative approaches to futures analysis. We also proactively engage outside defence to understand external studies and engagement across the futures community.

For Sustainability we provide assessment of climate change effects, taking advantage of new and emerging energy technologies. We have the remit to increase climate literacy amongst Dstl staff so that climate change and sustainability is factored into all the Science and Technology research programmes in the same way as health and safety is.

**In this role you will**:
Develop & sustain capability (people relationships, infrastructure, knowledge, licences to practice) to provide technical/scientific contribution to current and future projects across Dstl through effective use of the Team's resources/expertise:

- Maintain awareness of current and future demand requirements
- Understand and use the different resource options to ensure an appropriate mix of team members
- Understand and effectively develop capability to align with Division Capability plans
- Build resilience through succession planning, including developing future leaders
- Direct Line management of a team of 15 Team Members:

- Enable effective performance management and development of team members
- Allocate employees to tasks or projects based on requirements
- Coach and support Team Members career and personal development.

Ensure that people have the necessary skills and competencies for the tasks assigned

Ensure employees have knowledge of and conform to all safety and security and resilience requirements.

Build employees engagement and create an environment which nurtures excellence through:

- setting the direction for team, including how the team fits with strategic aims;
- creating a positive and inclusive working environment that aligns with Dstl Values, champions diversity and enables employees to excel
- communicating and owning difficult messages;
- challenging and addressing poor performance
- recognising and highlighting high performance
- networking with other Team Leaders and stakeholders to share good practice and ensure a coherent approach

Implement Dstl's policies and ensure compliance with the Management System.

Provide individual technical/professional contribution as agreed with Line Manager.

Recommending:

- Allocation of employees to all leadership roles on projects (PM, PTA, LTR)
- Appointment of Capability Advisers to a programme

**Person specification**:
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