Dio - Business Support Officer

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

- 262174**Salary**:

- £22,220- Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% and additional benefits**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - COO - Estates - Specialist Teams**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Knowledge and Information Management**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Rosyth, Forthview House, KY11 2BLAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK’s largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation to runways for the F35 fighter jets, our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe

**About DIO**

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**Job description**:
The Defence estate is one of the largest landholdings in the UK and covers an estimated 1.8% of the UK land mass (200,000+ ha), this is complemented by a significant UK Defence presence overseas. It costs £2.8bn each year to maintain and incorporates 428 major establishments, 148 barracks, 69 ports, 10 naval bases, 37 air stations, 116 runways and approximately 50,000 houses.
If you are a suitably experienced in Business Support and are looking for a new challenge in working within a motivated and professional team, then DIO Estates is for you. Through collaborating with Military colleagues on one of the largest estates in the country, with an extensive overseas portfolio, you will have the opportunity of working on a diverse range of exciting, interesting, and often-challenging projects of National Interest in support of the UK Defence Mission.

Estates are the in-house real estate team within the DIO (part of the UK Ministry of Defence) advising our Military customers on current and future infrastructure needs across a high-profile Public Estate. We acquire, manage, safeguard and dispose of Defence real estate. Our unique customer knowledge and insight of the Defence Estate enables our in-house team of chartered surveyors, town planners, registered valuers and technical staff to provide in-depth advice, adding value to our customers, delivering programmes across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Overseas. This includes but is not limited to: property advice, safeguarding, byelaws, rationalisation programmes, acquisitions, disposals, lease management (£20.6M pa), accommodation programmes, commercialisation initiatives, rating (£160M pa), valuations and the management of the tenanted estate (£13.6M pa).

DIO Estates have five delivery teams, Acquisitions & Disposals (A&D) and A&D Major Projects (MP) - collectively delivering a £150M pa Disposals Programme, Accommodation Optimisation Team (AOT) providing strategic residential accommodation advice and support, Land Management Services (LMS) - providing a comprehensive land, estate and property management and consultancy service and Specialist Teams (ST) - comprising Overseas, Valuation & Rating and Safeguarding. The delivery teams are supported by a Programme Management Office (PMO) - comprising a Data Management Team (DMT), Programme Delivery Team (PDT) and Business Management Team (BMT)

**The Role**

**The Team**

Specialist Teams includes Chartered Surveyors, Registered Valuers, Safeguarding Officers and Business Support professionals who, between them, provide comprehensive land, estate and property management services to the Overseas Estate, Estate wide Valuation & Rating Services, Safeguarding of Defence assets and operational capabilities and a business support services to the Estates Division.

**Person specification**:
The Estates Support Team (EST) sit within Specialist Teams and are accountable for the business and admin support to the Estate’s 5 Delivery Teams. The EST has Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in: Business Rates, Recruiting, Apprentices, HR Compliance/Guidance, Stakeholder Engagement, Risk Management, Resource Budgets, Training, Finance, IT and Data Management. Based at 10 UK locations, the EST provide crucial services and support to the wider Estates and external customers.
- The Estates Support Officer is accountable for ensuring their team adhere and conform with all agreed DIO TLB processes and operating procedures. Provide an efficient administrative support service.- Manage the processing, archiving and monitoring of data regarding acquisitions and disposals on the MOD Estate.
- Approving and activating all hiring’s and lettings on the Infrastructure Management system (IMS).
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