De&s Chief of Staff

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

- 383789

**Salary**:

- £87,000 - £96,400
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 1

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Equipment & Support

**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement
Operational Delivery
Secretarial
Senior leadership
Other

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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**Benefits**:
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Location
- DE&S Headquarters, Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH

About the job

**Job summary**:
This is a critical senior appointment for DE&S, as the sole Chief of Staff for the organisation, providing strategic executive support to our Executive Leadership Team to enable delivery of the DE&S Strategy. This is an opportunity to join an organisation making a material difference to defence of the UK homeland, at a hugely pivotal moment in its development, looking both externally across wider MOD and UK defence, and internally to our change programme.

Defence Equipment and Support delivers and sustains capability for His Majesty’s Armed Forces. We also play a major role in the prosperity of the UK by spending £8 billion every year on UK contracts, supporting more than 88,000 jobs.

The Chief of Staff role has responsibility for bringing coherence to a complex change and delivery landscape in order to direct and focus the senior leadership’s priorities. It will provide the link between the organisation and its stakeholders and the Executive Leadership Team providing the ‘corporate glue’ to enable effective and efficient organisational leadership.

To be successful you will have experience of operating at a strategic level in a large and complex organisation and working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary leadership team, actively drawing links across different areas, identifying risks and opportunities and managing competing priorities across a range of internal and external stakeholders. You will be confident operating at the most senior levels both internally and externally, including at Board level.

As a leader in the business, you will embody servant leadership and play a pivotal role in creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can flourish. You will support transformation of the business, and specifically the corporate organisation. This is an exciting time for DE&S, and we look forward to discussing with you how you might become part of our journey during the recruitment process.

**Job description**:
**The Chief of Staff has the following areas of responsibility**:

- Sole Chief of Staff for the whole of DE&S supporting the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), including the CEO and the DE&S Board,
- Supporting the ELT and DE&S Board to strategically lead the organisation by understanding the key challenges across the breadth of DE&S and MOD.
- Cohering and advising on ELT priorities across the organisation to ensure the senior leadership is operating as a strong team, focussed on providing strategic direction, driving organisational change and recognising and responding to the wider global and political context.
- Supporting the ELT to deliver the DE&S strategy and ensuring they operate in line with the management construct through provision of strategic agendas and coordinating and driving the ELT initiatives
- Setting performance metrics and behavioural goals for the ELT and supporting delivery
- Providing a critical link between DE&S and our broad range of Stakeholders using your strong communication and relationship management skills
- Provide leadership on DE&S Operating Model changes within own areas to ensure maximum benefit is achieved for the organisation as a whole.
- Embody servant leadership and provide direction and support to a wider executive support team of c20 people and beyond own area, championing equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

**Person specification**:
following 6 essential criteria:

- Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion. Demonstratable visible leadership, with a proactive commitment to diversity and inclusion and demonstrable experience of creating and maintaining a psychologically safe and inclusive environment.
- Leading through Change. Demonstrable experience of proactively championing and leading change by seeking innovative new approaches, policies and systems that add value to the organisation
- Being accountable. Evidence of accepting and responding to challenges from stakeholders and colleagues in a constructive manner.
- Demonstrable experience of exceptional delivery in a senior leadership role within a large and highly complex organisation
- Evidence of deploying high levels of influence, especially with senior leaders, to achieve positive outcomes for the organisation.
- The ability to managing competing priorities, influencing decisions and challenging behaviours at senior levels.

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