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RAF Welford, Chaddleworth Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 7EX

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique.

DIO is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a diverse range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling our people to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs and we encourage you to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

DIO commits to offer its employees the following experience: 

• Meaningful, purposeful work
• The ability to learn and grow
• The right opportunities and resources
• To care about your wellbeing
• To feel valued and included

The Challenge

Do you want to join the 2021 Government Security team of the year and be part of our Gold Standard security service?

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) provides high quality security services at over 140 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. We provide access control, military working dogs, control room operations and other security services. We play a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and work to protect the defence estate and personnel from crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage threats.

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and employs over 2,500 staff. MGS Officers are often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on our professional, customer-focused culture.

All our Security Officers are required to have excellent customer service skills and must be willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the defence estate. Due to the high profile and strategic locations of the sites we guard, it is essential our Security Officers have a strong work ethic, are able to work as part of a team, are observant to threats and are capable to challenge and de-escalate difficult situations if required. We also require our Security Officers to have good written and verbal communication skills. Our Officers must have resilience and remain positive and friendly in all weather conditions and on all occasions.

We provide our staff with a market leading salary, excellent sickness benefits, together with a defined benefit civil service pension. Free full uniform will be provided.

We are a growing organisation with opportunities for good quality staff to progress their security careers.

The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities and from all types of working backgrounds.

See more information about the MGS, please read the candidate pack.

About DIO: 

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert for Defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.

Our responsibilities include: 

• Plan and deliver major capital projects and lifecycle refurbishment
• Provide utilities services
• Manage soft facilities management (i.e. cleaning and catering)
• Provide a safe place to train
• Allocate Service Families Accommodation
• Procure and manage routine maintenance and reactive repair
• Provide a central register of asset information to advise infrastructure planning
• Act as steward of the Defence estate
• Provide the unarmed guarding service

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide unarmed guarding services at over 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The MGS plays a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and works closely with its security partners

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and  employs over 2,500 operational and support staff. The MGS is managed by a Head Office team, dispersed strategically around the country.

MGS officers are very often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on a customer-focused culture, working to DIO’s Values as well as our own core values of honesty, integrity, professionalism and efficiency.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry, as we seek to be the unarmed  guarding provider of choice. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

We employ approximately 4,900 staff from a very diverse range of professions, and we work across the world; in Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands, Norway, Poland, Kenya, Belize, Nepal and Oman.

Main Responsibilities:

The key duties of an Operational Manager (OM) are as follows.

• To ensure the correct posture of physical and tactical resources to manage sites and maintain operational preparedness for security incidents, in line with local Joint Business Agreements/General Statement of Security Requirement (GSSOR’s).
• Oversee the management of resources, including people, and expenditure whilst ensuring a positive and inclusive working environment
• Lead Physical Security operations and set governance structures to appropriately meet the risk appetite, overseeing effective Physical Security to protect assets and people throughout the estate. Liaise with Unit Customers and Heads of Establishments on a regular basis about service delivery and any problems/issues arising. Following agreed prioritisation of tasks and risks
• Comply with relevant regulation and legislation
• Ensure all posts and tasks are risk assessed and Health and Safety policies and processes are followed at all times
• Liaise with Unit Customers and Heads of Establishments on a regular basis about service delivery and any problems/issues arising. Following agreed prioritisation of tasks and risks.
• Cooperating with other security providers at the Unit to provide a high-quality security service.
• Provide Head Office with returns when requested regarding staffing levels, personal case work, audits and weekly completion of PORT, recording achievement of tasks, overtime and other operational data.
• Ensuring National Security Inspectorate (NSI) compliance at all Units within your Area of Responsibility (AOR) auditing paperwork and processes and amending and updating local documents when required
• Reviewing rosters, Joint Business Agreements/ General Statement of Security Requirement (GSSOR’s) and Assignment instructions on an annual basis to
• Consulting with Trade Unions on local changes and building positive and effective relationships with all stakeholders.
• Carry out all MGS/MOD/Management training including Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) to ensure effective understanding and management of Health & Safety within their Area of Responsibility (AOR).

Travel Requirements:

Some Operational Manager roles may cover more than one site and require routine travel using official vehicles between Units. There will also be an expectation to travel in order to attend meetings, training courses or carry out Personnel case work at other locations throughout the UK.

Desirable Experience & Skills:

A background, qualification or demonstrable interest in the delivery of site security and/or customer service will be an advantage

Full UK driving licence, due to managing more than one site, traveling to other sites , attending meetings/training courses and meetings.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

We understand the importance of life outside of work and our industry leading flexible working practices, digital technology and modern workspaces will give you the opportunity to enjoy a healthy work-life balance.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
• Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year
• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and / or site shops.

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Learning & Development:

• Professional and Personal Development of skills
• Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO
• Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

Employment Hours

42 hours gross based on full time

Medical

MGS applicants are required to attend a medical appointment to undertake a colour perception test.

Westminster

Head Office provides the Department of State function and political and military strategic direction for the MOD. It is accommodated in Main Building, MOD’s flagship headquarters.

The Director Head Office business area, specifically within the Safety Security and Business Resilience (SSBR) business unit is responsible for overseeing the safety, security, and resilience of MOD Main Building, ensuring that staff within MOD Main Building can continue to deliver critical Defence outputs in all foreseeable circumstances.

Working to the Grade 7, Policy, Governance and Assurance, two exciting new roles to strengthen our risk and assurance capability/function have been created.  The incumbents will be responsible for cohering, overseeing and managing the Head Office Security Risk and Assurance framework.  You will liaise with the wider team in security and resilience including key stakeholders across Head Office to ensure that related security and resilience risks are understood and proportionately managed, and where necessary escalated to the Principal Security Advisor, Head of Establishment and other key stakeholders.  You will contribute to the development of a Head Office Security and Resilience Risk Appetite Statement and support risk discussions at senior management boards. You will ensure the Head Office risk management process informs/the Departmental Quarterly Performance and Risk Reporting (QP&RR) process, liaising with both Directorate of Security and Resilience (DSR) and Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR) functional teams as appropriate.

A key part of the role is to support the development and implementation of a Head Office Security and Resilience Assurance programme, ensuring that Head Office has a robust assurance programme in place to inform the annual Head Office Security and Resilience Assurance Report. 

As these are new posts, you will have an opportunity to inform the future size, shape and responsibilities of the team.

You may be required to provide on call support in this role for which an allowance is payable.  

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Responsibilities include:

–         Contribute to the development of Head Office Security and Resilience Risk Appetite Statement. 

–         Cohere Head Office Security and Resilience Risk Registers, working with key stakeholders to ensure risks and issues are managed and controls remain effective.  Escalation of risks to the Principal Security Advisor and Head of Establishment as necessary.  

–         Risk and Assurance focal point for Head Office including responsibility for any Departmental reporting requirements.

–         Contribute to the development of a Head Office Security and Resilience Assurance programme.  Work alongside key stakeholders to ensure appropriate first, second- and third-line assurance is in place. 

–         Support Governance function through preparation of papers to senior Boards as appropriate.

The above is an outline of the responsibilities and activities within the role. It is not exhaustive and may vary over time with changes in organisational priorities.

Essential

• You will have previous experience and knowledge of operational risk, developing operational requirements and risk control frameworks; this includes an understanding of Information security management systems and risk assessment methodologies or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Previous experience in either Protective Security or Security Assurance is essential, in addition to a good working knowledge/understanding of risk management.
• DV clearance and access to STRAP (or ability to attain).
• Policy development and delivery experience.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to tailor and vary communication style to suit the needs of a varied military, civil service and parliamentary audience. Communicate in a clear, concise and confident manner.
• Manage and prioritise workload balancing competing demands. 

Desirable

• Full membership of the Security Institute would be advantageous as would a professional security qualification.
• Possess or working towards a formal qualification in risk management.
• Knowledge of Government Security and Risk Management Policies.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Free on site Gym
• On site Restaurant and Coffee shop
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Generous leave allowance starting at 25 days rising to 30 days after 5 years.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

London*, Warrington – *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxhall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

This role is for a G5 Intelligence Officer within the Darkweb Intelligence, Collection, and Exploitation (DICE) team. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, developing and responding to intelligence and information across darkweb and clearweb resources. The DICE team works on developing intelligence for high-risk online threats to the UK, exploring a variety of threat areas. DICE intelligence officers are involved in the analysis of communications and hosting data, with the aim of proactively generating leads from both the darkweb and clear web. The ultimate aim will be to identify offenders and prepare targeting packages for tasked operational action. Successful candidates will be equired to respond to online threats, often in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should be able to process detailed information efficiently and accurately. There will be significant liaison and teamwork with partners across law enforcement both within the UK and abroad.

The successful candidate will be proactive and focused on the identification and attribution of online subjects, and therefore have an enquiring and open mind. Successful candidates will have experience of open source methods and an understanding of online criminal activities.

As the DICE team explores offending on the darkweb as well as the clearweb, knowledge of technological obfuscation techniques and/or virtual currencies would be beneficial, but not required. Indeed, candidates who show high propensity or interest in technical or darkweb capabilities will be given training opportunities to further develop their interest and expertise. Officers involved in child sexual abuse and exploitation target the most vulnerable and innocent members of our community. The NCA works tirelessly and diligently against these individuals and you may be expected to work directly or indirectly in tackling this threat. This may involve some exposure to child sexual abuse images and material and you should consider and be aware of the sensitive nature of the work before deciding to apply. All officers working on or assisting this type of operational activity undergo a psychological assessment on taking up the role and at regular intervals once in post. Officers will continue to receive constant support through numerous resources throughout their time assisting within this threat area.

*** To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV STRAP clearance within the first 12 months in post. Applicants must be willing to undergo DV clearance and STRAP induction and be full UK Nationals or Dual Nationals, of whom one component is British may be considered on a case by case basis. ***

DICE (Dark Web Intelligence and Exploitation)

 
The online threat has continued to grow with new challenges that no longer require criminals to possess complex technical knowledge and sophistication to remain anonymous online and commit criminal activity.

To meet this challenge DICE has evolved and will no longer focus exclusively on the dark web, but will operate on the clear web and across social media applications to track dark net criminals. It will focus on the highest harms online, upstream and internationally, while continuing to support the national effort to tackle a wide range of online criminal threats. Online criminality is a growing threat and tackling it is now a major priority for the NCA. This role will be part of a newly refreshed DICE team that will build up expertise to target criminals selling or facilitating the sale of illicit goods and services on the Dark Web and Clear Web. The role will respond to online threats, often in a fast-paced environment and identify intelligence leads across the Dark Web and Clear Web that relates to online criminal marketplaces that sell illicit commodities.

• Identifying intelligence leads across the Dark Web and Clear Web that relates to online criminal marketplaces that sell illicit commodities.
• Developing packages to be tasked to investigation teams within the NCA and with partners in the UK and overseas.
• Responding to online threats, often in a fast-paced environment, processing detailed information obtained using non-attributable tools and methods.
• Ensuring the quality, secure handing and dissemination of intelligence. Maintaining confidentiality, sensitivity and ensuring compliance with CPIA.
• Completing applications and authorities under RIPA and IPA.
• Undertaking Covert Internet Investigator activity to conduct authorised engagement with criminal market places.

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

IPP Intelligence Officer accreditation.

DICE operate across Commodities, Prosperity and Vulnerabilities. By applying for this role applicants are confirming that they are willing to work on Child Sexual Abuse operations.

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Knowledge and experience of non-attributable open source intelligence collection
• Experience of identifying, assessing and managing risk
• An understanding of dark net environments and obfuscation techniques

Alongside your salary of £34,672, National Crime Agency contributes £9,361 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

London

The Prime Minister’s Office enables the Prime Minster to deliver the Government’s overall priorities and to communicate the Government’s policies to Parliament, the public and international audiences. From the Policy Unit and Press Office, Switchboard and Custodians, to the Events & Visits team and the world class Private Office support; the diverse Downing Street team draws on varied expertise from across the Civil Service and beyond. The teams come together to deliver excellent service to the Prime Minister while also making No10 a great place to work.

The Role

As a Custodian Apprentice at the Prime Minister’s Office, you will help to protect our people and assets to make our complex security operation a success. You will work with a team of motivated professionals to provide a reassuring presence, while conducting a range of security duties and responsibilities.

A focus of the role will be to use bespoke security architecture (e.g., CCTV and Access Control systems) to maintain security assurance across our estate. You will also be responsible for processing visitors and vehicles and engaging in incident and emergency response.

Diversity is welcomed in our team and our Custodian Officers come from all walks of life. You do not need any security experience to apply.

Shift patterns and allowance

As a Custodian you will work a 24/7 shift pattern comprising of early, late and night shifts (including bank holidays & weekends). The average working week is 37.5 hours over 5 working days and two rest days. As such the basic pay is enhanced by 36.97% in allowances as of 2023.

Key responsibilities and skills;

• You will have good customer service skills and be keen to learn.
• You will enjoy working in a team, be calm under pressure and be assertive when giving instructions.
  You will be a confident communicator and take care to write clearly and concisely. With excellent attention to detail, you will compile accurate written logs.
• Proactive and motivated, you will be an effective time manager with strong administrative and observational skills.
• As the first person many people meet on entering No10 from staff to VVIP’s, you will have high personal standards, expecting nothing but the best of yourself and others.
• We will expect you to have some basic IT skills, including the ability to use email and Microsoft Office. Further training can be provided to develop these skills if required.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others

Alongside your salary of £28,700, Cabinet Office contributes £7,749 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Open to UK nationals only.

Bedford, Belfast, Birmingham, Bridgend, Bristol, Calder, Chelmsford, Chorley*, Crawley, Dover, Exeter, Gartcosh, Gillingham (Kent), Heathrow, Kingston Upon Thames, Leicester, London**, Normanton, Nottingham, Slough, Stevenage, Sunderland, Warrington, Tamworth, Tolworth – *Under the NCA Estates Strategy, the Chorley office is part of a planned relocation to the Warrington office. Relocation is planned to take place after September 2023. If you are successful for a Chorley role, please be aware that your post will be relocated. **For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford.  However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

About Integrated Protective Security

The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the Agency to protect the public.

IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats that target the Agency, our officers and our assets, to enable the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas, with flexibility, agility and integrity.

IPS officers provide specialist security services to the Agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to mitigate security risks.

As an officer within the command you will be responsible for implementing bespoke, efficient and proportionate protective security measures that adapt and respond to evolving security threats. Using an intelligence led, risk-based approach you will operate within the three pillars of security (cyber, personnel and physical) to defend the entire NCA by preventing, responding to and managing security incidents wherever they arise.
IPS is a diverse command, providing specialist services across the following disciplines:

Business continuity and disaster recovery, Sensitive Intelligence Management Unit.

• Counter corruption
• Supply chain security.
• Cyber defence.
• Technical security.
• Information assurance.
• Physical security.
• International security.
• Professional standards.
• Operational security.
• Security vetting.
• Security education.

IPS reports to the Director General Operations, with a dedicated Deputy Director and senior leadership team aligned to each of the security pillars. We are responsible for people, processes, technology and standards, operating across the NCA to support operational and non-operational teams, along with the Command Team, to ensure the Agency remains resilient and retains public confidence in a volatile and complex threat landscape.

We aim to hire for talent and train for skill, providing world-class training and career development opportunities to all of our people, to deliver tireless public service.

About the Role

The NCA’s Professional Standards Unit works within the NCA’s Integrated Protective Security command to ensure effective working relationships, between officers, our partners, and the public by maintaining confidence in the agency and its officers. We have legal and statutory obligations around how we manage complaints and potential conduct matters.
Every officer working for the NCA has the right to expect to work in a professional and transparent organisation, and it’s the Professional Standards Unit who play a big part in helping to deliver that environment.

The agency’s success depends on our professionalism, integrity, effective working relationships and public confidence. Our priorities are protecting the agency, our officers and our assets.

We are currently looking to recruit a Prevent Senior Officer to join our team.

What will the successful Candidate be doing?

The successful candidate will lead on the design and delivery of the Prevent strategy on behalf of the Professional Standard Unit. 
As a Prevent Senior Officer your role is to provide support and educate  officers of all grades, around their responsibilities generated by the NCA Code, Civil Service Code and the NCA (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2013. 
The PSU Prevent Officer will be instrumental in improving knowledge of acceptable standards of behavior across the agency, developing and delivering bespoke training and information campaigns aimed at improving workplace culture and practice. 
This role offers the unique opportunity to influence the culture within the Agency, identifying knowledge gaps and areas for improvement to make the NCA a better place to work.

***To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role***

Key Responsibilities.

The post holder will deliver a medium/long term project to design and deliver a “prevent” strategy. This will involve:

• Delivering a Prevent strategy to educate and inform officers across commands and grades;
• Developing or designing a range of products to support the “prevent” objective;
• Working with business areas to identify issues and develop bespoke interventions with measurable objectives to improve workplace culture;
• Delivery of on-boarding to new staff joining the agency and other presentations as required;
• Establishing a governance process to track and monitor delivery progress;
• Working with, and learning from police and other external partners.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of delivering learning or education to diverse audiences.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Experience analysing data from a range of sources

Alongside your salary of £38,642, National Crime Agency contributes £10,433 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

Bedford, Birmingham, Bridgend, Bristol, Chelmsford, Chorley**, Crawley, Dover, Exeter, Gartcosh, Gillingham (Kent), Heathrow, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Leicester, Lon-don*, Normanton, Nottingham, Slough, Stevenage, Sunderland, Tamworth, Warrington. *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford.  However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy. **Under the NCA Estates Strategy, the Chorley office is part of a planned relocation to the Warrington office. Relocation is planned to take place after September 2023. If you are successful for a Chorley role, please be aware that your post will be relocated.

About Integrated Protective Security

The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the Agency to protect the public.

IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats that target the Agency, our officers and our assets, to enable the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas, with flexibility, agility and integrity.

IPS officers provide specialist security services to the Agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to mitigate security risks.

As an officer within the command you will be responsible for implementing bespoke, efficient and proportionate protective security measures that adapt and respond to evolving security threats. Using an intelligence led, risk-based approach you will operate within the three pillars of security (cyber, personnel and physical) to defend the entire NCA by preventing, responding to and managing security incidents wherever they arise.
IPS is a diverse command, providing specialist services across the following disciplines:

Business continuity and disaster recovery, Sensitive Intelligence Management Unit.

• Counter corruption
• Supply chain security.
• Cyber defence.
• Technical security.
• Information assurance.
• Physical security.
• International security.
• Professional standards.
• Operational security.
• Security vetting.
• Security education.

IPS reports to the Director General Operations, with a dedicated Deputy Director and senior leadership team aligned to each of the security pillars. We are responsible for people, processes, technology and standards, operating across the NCA to support operational and non-operational teams, along with the Command Team, to ensure the Agency remains resilient and retains public confidence in a volatile and complex threat landscape.

We aim to hire for talent and train for skill, providing world-class training and career development opportunities to all of our people, to deliver tireless public service.

The NCA’s Professional Standards Unit works within the NCA’s Integrated Protective Security command to ensure effective working relationships, between officers, our partners and the public by maintaining confidence in the agency. We have legal and statutory obligations around how we manage complaints and potential conduct matters.
Every officer working for the NCA has the right to expect to work in a professional and transparent organisation, and it’s the Professional Standards Unit who play a big part in helping to deliver that environment.

The agency’s success depends on our professionalism, integrity, effective working relationships and public confidence. Our priorities are protecting the agency, our officers and our assets.

We are currently looking to recruit an Investigations Manager to join our team.

What will the successful Candidate be doing?

As a Investigations Manager you will be required to deal with a range of sensitive issues in a highly confidential environment. 
You will supervise a team of officers who undertake investigations into allegations of Gross Misconduct, Misconduct, Public Complaints, occurrences of Death or Serious Injury and some criminal offences (suspected to be committed by NCA officers). There will also be a requirement for you to lead some of your own investigations.

You will provide advice and guidance to PSU Investigators and support non PSU staff who are responsible for investigating issues on behalf of the unit. You will also be required to promote professional standards across the organisation, delivering presentations and supporting the agencies training programme’s when required.

**To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV clearance within the first 12 months in post.**

Key Responsibilities

As a G3 Investigations manager in the PSU, you will:

Conduct and/or supervise investigations into:

• Allegations of Misconduct and Gross Misconduct
• Public Complaints 
• Death and Serious Injury Incidents
• Offences committed  by NCA officers

You will also:
 
• Ensure that investigations are carried out thoroughly, expeditiously and proportionately in accordance with legislation, NCA Policies and oversight body guidance.

• Ensure your team produce high quality investigation reports ensuring compliance with  guidelines, legislation and policy, for submission to the CPS and/or internal disciplinary proceedings.

• Present cases to any subsequent disciplinary proceedings.

• Work with and support PSU Managers to risk-assess incoming work and agree allocation and prioritisation of investigations.

• Promote the role and responsibilities of the PSU and enhance awareness of risk areas throughout NCA by attendance at and delivering presentations to a variety of audiences.

• Contribute to the establishment of strong working relationships, with both internal and external partners, whilst presenting a positive image of NCA and the PSU.

• Must be able to achieve and maintain DV clearance.

Travel across the United Kingdom may be required at short notice as may the requirement to work extended tours of duty.

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

• Experienced and nationally accredited investigator qualification – PIP2 Supervisor (or equivalent)

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experienced and nationally accredited investigator, with the ability to manage multiple caseloads (yours and others) and prepare investigation reports within strict time limits.
• Proven experience in dealing with sensitive information, maintaining confidentiality and duty of care in accordance with government or NCA policy and legislation
• Proven drafting/report writing skills.
• Proven experience in managing risk in pressurised operational environment.

Alongside your salary of £47,380, National Crime Agency contributes £12,792 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

London

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is currently recruiting a Strategy Advisor for the UKHSA Strategy team, which sits in the Strategy directorate.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) ensures the nation can respond quickly and at scale to deal with a range of health threats, including a future pandemic. UKHSA is responsible for planning, preventing and responding to external health threats, and providing intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, and on the global stage.

​The impact we make is profound. We work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, and that staff members feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

UKHSA’s Strategy Directorate is an inclusive, high-performing team with an exciting and challenging remit including leading the organisation’s strategic and business planning, delivery of priority outcomes and decision making, and building key relationships both within Government and external stakeholders at home and overseas. We play a critical coordination and integration role to make sure UKHSA is greater than the sum of its parts.

This role is based in the UKHSA Strategy team which focusses on setting the organisation’s direction, including developing UKHSA’s overall strategy, as well as supporting the development of supporting strategies (for example UKHSA’s Science and Health Equality strategies) and plans to deliver individual UKHSA priorities.

As a Strategy Advisor, you will play an essential role in helping establish UKHSA as a leading agency in domestic and global health protection. You will be working with a highly motivated and passionate group of people in an exciting and fast paced environment with the opportunity to influence government policy and delivery. You will be responsible for developing and securing agreement to responses to strategic problems facing UKHSA, plans to address the organisation’s top priorities and advancing the key capabilities need to deliver health security. This includes realising the new possibilities created by bringing together complementary skills, capabilities and responsibilities from multiple organisations into UKHSA.

We are looking for a candidate who is driven, ambitious and ideally possess the following skills and experience for the role. However, we are also committed to helping you learn and develop, to allow you to and get the very best out of yourself. If you possess some or all of these skills, then we would like to hear from you. Please ensure you provide detailed examples in your application of how you have demonstrated these skills: 

• Ability to see the bigger picture and draw together varied information into a coherent whole 
• Great stakeholder management skills, especially with senior colleagues. The ability to build productive working relationships quickly and to engender confidence with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Critical strategic thinking, including ability to identify and assess options, and make well-argued recommendations.
• A strong communicator, able to communicate messages clearly to a range of audiences at all levels – both verbally and in writing.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise work
• Experience of supporting your team to deliver priorities in a fast paced, constantly changing work environment to achieve successful outcomes.
• Skilled in the Microsoft office suite packages (specifically Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).

About Us

At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards.  We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

Our mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight. We will work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve and feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

Creating our working culture is an ongoing process which we are developing by listening and learning together, hearing and acting upon diverse voices and opinions to develop a common sense of identity and effective ways of working.

Having recently achieved the publication of UKHSA’s Strategic plan, the team is now prioritising:

• Working with the Senior Executive Leads for UKHSA’s six priorities to agree the specific outcomes we will aim to achieve over the three years of the UKHSA’s Strategic plan, metrics we will use to measure success and effective plans for delivery.

 

• Ongoing development and delivery of a support offer for teams creating internal strategies for key aspects of UKHSA’s activities. This involves collaborating with teams across UKHSA to ensure that the skills and structures needed for the development of strategies are in place, as well as ensuring alignment with the UKHSA Corporate Strategy.

 

The role will be focussed on delivery of one or more of these work areas. The team’s work will evolve over time as particular projects conclude, but will continue to be based around the core objectives of setting the organisation’s direction and longer term planning to deliver UKHSA priorities.

Your main responsibilities are likely to include: 

• Working collaboratively with colleagues and senior leaders to help develop and expediate the delivery of strategic plans, shaping proposals and coordinating contributions.
• Building, maintaining, and improving systems to support a controlled and comprehensive approach to strategy development across UKHSA. 
• Supporting colleagues and senior leaders to maintain clarity on strategy and associated delivery plans across UKHSA. 

The UKHSA Strategy team’s core work is focussed on the objectives of setting the organisation’s direction and longer-term planning to deliver UKHSA priorities. Currently our main projects are working with the Senior Executive Leads to ensure effective plans for the delivery of UKHSA’s strategic priorities and supporting teams creating internal strategies for key aspects of UKHSA’s activities. The role will lead elements of one or more of these projects.

This role will involve scoping and leading cross-cutting strategic projects to support coordination across UKHSA on priority topics, objective or capabilities with the aim of increasing and improving UKHSA’s impact, with better outcomes for people’s lives and livelihoods. The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues and senior leaders, leading the development and agreement of cross-organisational action on strategic issues. This will require consulting and negotiating with stakeholders, including effectively engaging colleagues from a wide range of professional backgrounds, to define problems, develop solutions and reach consensus on strategic direction and initiatives. It will be important to understand and test colleagues assumptions, ensuring the identification, analysis and synthesis of evidence from across the organisation to inform strategic decision-making. The post-holder will lead the development and drafting of policy submission and strategy documents, working closely with private offices and teams across UKHSA, to facilitate agreement and communication of the conclusions and recommendations of their projects. 

The role is also likely to include responsibility for advising UKHSA colleagues on effective approaches for developing strategies and addressing strategic issues, in line with the tools and guidance developed by the Strategy directorate. This includes building, maintaining, and improving the systems needed to support a controlled and comprehensive approach to strategy development across UKHSA.

A key aspect of all work will be to support colleagues and senior leaders to maintain clarity on strategy and associated delivery plans across UKHSA. Working with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure significant new decisions, commitments and implementation plans align with UKHSA’s overall strategic plan.

The post-holder will support the work of the Strategy directorate as a whole by understanding key areas of the business, identifying emerging issues and making recommendations on when, where and how Strategy directorate should undertake a project to address them.

The post-holder will also be expected to contribute to the effectiveness of a high-performing team, including helping to set direction and support the well-being and development of team members. 

It is important through your application and Statement of Suitability of no more than 1,000 words that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following criteria:

Successful candidates will be able to describe examples of where they have demonstrated these essential skills, abilities, and experience of:

• Ability to see the bigger picture and draw together varied information into a coherent whole. 
• Great stakeholder management skills, especially with senior colleagues. The ability to build productive working relationships quickly and to engender confidence with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Critical strategic thinking, including ability to identify and assess options, and make well-argued recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate messages clearly to a range of audiences at all levels – both verbally and in writing.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise work
• Experience of supporting your team to deliver priorities in a fast paced, constantly changing work environment to achieve successful outcomes.
• Skilled in the Microsoft office suite packages (specifically Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Range of health and wellbeing support

Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at Childcare Choices , 30 Hours Free Childcare, Tax-Free Childcare and More , Help with Costs , GOV.UK

Glasgow

The Government Security Function (GSF) oversees the delivery of protective security across Government. Our Mission is to enable the Government to protect citizens and provide vital public services by understanding and managing security risks. We set the strategy and standards for Government Security, monitor departmental security performance, manage pan-government security incidents, support the delivery of key security capabilities and lead the Government Security Profession.

The Government Security Group (GSG) is the centre of the Function, based within the Cabinet Office. GSG is transforming the Government’s approach to protective security to ensure it is fit to meet the challenges of the digital age. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team, with a breadth of stakeholders including in other Government departments, the National Technical Authorities and the Agencies, and to contribute to delivering improved security across Government. 

This role will provide you with an opportunity to be at the forefront in shaping national security policy and responding to a growing threat. You will be a part of a tight-knit taskforce setting up a unit to investigate national security risk amongst companies operating in the UK. You’ll need to be high-energy, creative and a problem-solver, willing to work across the security community to help set up a unit from scratch. This will be exciting and fast-paced, with significant parliamentary and ministerial interest.

Economic Security is an increasingly important issue within the national security landscape. The growth in the threat has necessitated levers and mitigations to prevent the UK Government from being compromised through commercial channels. The Procurement Act provides us with unprecedented levers to intervene where companies pose a national security threat. In order to use these levers, the national security community will need to assess the risk associated with certain companies in order to arrive at decisions about whether this risk is intolerable and requires intervention.

The Government Security Group is creating a unit to coordinate the cross-government response to this national security risk, starting with a small number of planning and policy professionals, and building to a unit handling caseload.

This is a multi-faceted and stretching Grade 7 role, dedicated to the organisational set up of the new Unit as well as future supplier casework, offering  insight into the UK’s prosperity and security objectives.

• This is a casework/investigative leadership role. The postholder will support the G6 in charge of the Unit’s national security casework, a key Ministerial priority relating to the national security aspects of the Procurement Bill. The role will support the Deputy Prime Minister’s priority objective to provide commercial and procurement expertise across government and the wider public sector. 
• The postholder will lead a team of SEOs and HEOs, with responsibility for managing national security exclusions and debarment investigations, selecting cases for assessment and looking at individual supplier risks where there are threats to national security. This will include liaising with the relevant departments and assessment bodies, and making recommendations to Ministers on which suppliers should not participate in public contracts. 
• The role will involve in-depth analysis of a range of economic and commercial factors, strong liaison across government and robust risk assessment. 
• The postholder will also oversee the core casework Unit protocols, working closely with the legal team, and will build an impactful, high-performing, inclusive, and welcoming team, able to urgently respond to new priorities.

Essential skills and experience:

• Ability to work independently – being a self-motivated, proactive self-starter is essential.
• Strong analytical and data skills – being able to digest large amounts of detailed information, prioritise, understand and communicate complex evidence, and draw justified conclusions.
• Strong leadership ability – you will be able to support more junior colleagues in complex assessments with significant implications for the UK, ensuring the process is rigorous.
• Problem-solving skills and eye for detail – you will be comfortable thinking through complex issues, understanding strategic implications of decisions whilst paying attention to detail.
• Experience of confident working with Ministers and other senior stakeholders, and the ability to provide clear briefings on complicated issues.
• Strong understanding of the parliamentary and press backdrop, and an interest in national security policy.

Desirable experience:

• Previous experience of working in a security environment and/or an understanding of the current threats facing HMG.
• Knowledge of commercial practice across the public sector.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

Alongside your salary of £53,400, Cabinet Office contributes £14,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Glasgow

The Government Security Function (GSF) oversees the delivery of protective security across Government. Our Mission is to enable the Government to protect citizens and provide vital public services by understanding and managing security risks. We set the strategy and standards for Government Security, monitor departmental security performance, manage pan-government security incidents, support the delivery of key security capabilities and lead the Government Security Profession.

The Government Security Group (GSG) is the centre of the Function, based within the Cabinet Office. GSG is transforming the Government’s approach to protective security to ensure it is fit to meet the challenges of the digital age. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team, with a breadth of stakeholders including in other Government departments, the National Technical Authorities and the Agencies, and to contribute to delivering improved security across Government.

This role will provide you with an opportunity to be at the forefront in shaping national security policy and responding to a growing threat. You will be a part of a tight-knit taskforce setting up a unit to investigate national security risk amongst companies operating in the UK. You’ll need to be high-energy, creative and a problem-solver, willing to work across the security community to help set up a unit from scratch. This will be exciting and fast-paced, with significant parliamentary and ministerial interest.

Economic Security is an increasingly important issue within the national security landscape. The growth in the threat has necessitated levers and mitigations to prevent the UK Government from being compromised through commercial channels. The Procurement Bill will provide us with unprecedented levers to intervene where companies pose a national security threat. In order to use these levers, the national security community will need to assess the risk associated with certain companies in order to arrive at decisions about whether this risk is intolerable and requires intervention.

The Government Security Group is creating a unit to coordinate the cross-government response to this national security risk, starting with a small number of planning and policy professionals, and building to a unit handling caseload.

This role will provide you with an opportunity to be at the forefront in shaping national security policy and responding to a growing threat. You will be a part of a tight-knit taskforce setting up a unit to investigate national security risk amongst companies operating in the UK. You’ll need to be high-energy, creative and a problem-solver, willing to work across the security community to help set up a unit from scratch. This will be exciting and fast-paced, with significant parliamentary and ministerial interest.  

Economic Security is an increasingly important issue within the national security landscape. The growth in the threat has necessitated levers and mitigations to prevent the UK Government from being compromised through commercial channels. The Procurement Act provides us with unprecedented levers to intervene where companies pose a national security threat. In order to use these levers, the national security community will need to assess the risk associated with certain companies in order to arrive at decisions about whether this risk is intolerable and requires intervention. 

The Government Security Group is creating a unit to coordinate the cross-government response to this national security risk, starting with a small number of planning and policy professionals, and building to a unit handling caseload. 

Key areas of responsibility

This is a stretching investigative role, dedicated to supporting public procurement and national security supplier casework, offering  insight into the UK’s prosperity and security objectives.

• The post holder will support the G7 in charge of the Unit’s national security casework, a key Ministerial priority relating to the national security aspects of the Procurement Bill. The role will support the Deputy Prime Minister’s priority objective to provide commercial and procurement expertise across government and the wider public sector. 
• The post holder will lead a team of HEOs, with responsibility for supporting the management of national security exclusions and debarment investigations, selecting cases for assessment and looking at individual supplier risks where there are threats to national security. 
• This will include undertaking research and analysis, and supporting the Casework Team Lead in liaising with the relevant departments and assessment bodies. The SEO will support the G7 in making recommendations to Ministers on which suppliers should not participate in public contracts. 
• This role will involve in-depth analysis of a range of economic and commercial factors, strong liaison across government and robust risk assessment. 

Essential criteria:

• Ability to work independently – being a proactive self-starter is essential.
• Strong leadership ability – you will be able to support more junior colleagues in complex assessments with significant implications for the UK, ensuring the process is rigorous.
• Strong analytical skills – being able to analyse complex evidence and draw conclusions from a range of sources.
• Problem-solving skills and eye for detail – you will be comfortable thinking through complex issues, understanding strategic implications of decisions whilst paying attention to detail.
• Experience of confident working with stakeholders, and the ability to provide clear briefings on complicated issues.
• Strong understanding of the parliamentary and press backdrop, and an interest in national security policy.

Desirable experience:

• Previous experience of working in a security environment and/or an understanding of the current threats facing HMG.
• Knowledge of commercial practice across the public sector.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Alongside your salary of £40,850, Cabinet Office contributes £11,029 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

MoD Sealand, North Wales CH5 2LS

Job Summary

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!

Learn much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached.

Security Services Group (SSG) provides specialist security advice, compliance and assurance to areas of the public sector that require the highest levels of security protection. SSG is the Government’s expert provider specialising in design, installation and maintenance of both custom in-house security systems and highly accredited commercial products on the government estate. Working as part of a 230-person team, we provide full life support services to UK Defence and Government sites throughout the UK and overseas.

The position advertised will provide support in relation to the installation and maintenance of security systems across the Ministry Of Defence and Other Government Department estates.

Can you support MOD with securing some of the countries’ most important buildings and locations?
This is an exciting, interesting and meaningful role within Government Security at high profile and technically complex Defence sites, Other Government Departments and Critical National Infrastructure security programs.

We are looking for a motivated and passionate professional to join as a Senior Project Manager in the SSG’s Physical Security Team.

This role will require operating away from home at times providing support to SSG operations across the United Kingdom and overseas, staying in overnight accommodation as the need arises.

Where applicable, the following allowances are payable in addition to basic salary: travel time (where travel is external to core hours), recall-to-duty allowance, environmental (Radiation) allowance, travel and subsistence package when working out of your region and overtime.

A Senior Project Manager role in SSG acts as a customer interface and will regularly represent SSG at high level external meetings, they will:

•    Undertake sophisticated discussions and consultations with SSG Project Managers and Client Security Officers for Key Project and Maintenance accounts 
•    Lead (Line Manage) the dedicated “in-house” Skill Zones and sub-contractors to deliver the project and maintenance contracts to time, quality and cost
•    Provide full financial management: Estimating, Job costing, invoicing and budget management. Providing clear and detailed financial breakdown reports to the PS Team Leader
•    Be able to interpret and develop SSG Operations and external client requirements, working to support the team to deliver functional solutions
•    Require a solid understanding of British, European and Government Standards relating to security together with knowledge of QA and H&S policies
•    Provide technical subject matter expertise to interpret and apply policy and regulatory requirements ensuring solutions keep pace with legislation, guidance, and standard methodology  
•    Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices that would improve operational performance or commercial viability. 
•    Project manage schedules and work breakdown structures; tracking and managing delivery, providing assurance on milestones and timescales 
•    Coordinate and supervise activities relating to major contracts.
•    Assure quality standards are met and CDM and general H&S are in line with current regulations.

Full functional training will be provided for certain systems to suit the business needs.
Work is predominately at SSG Customer locations across the UK and overseas, travelling accordingly to multiple Governmental and Military sites. In addition, due to operational requirements, there will be a necessity for detached duty in the UK or possibly overseas or be required to stay overnight at sites that are unsuitable distances from home address.

You may be provided with a non-liveried company vehicle with personal use (eligible for taxable benefit).  You may also have opportunities for overtime and travelling time depending on business needs.

Other benefits include:
•    Access to Defence Discount Service.
•    Specsavers eye test vouchers. 
•    Access to the Civil Service Sports Club (CSSC) (fees apply)  
•    Access to the Civil Service Club in London (fees apply)
•    Continuous professional development within the security field.
•    Laptop and mobile phone
•    PPE and Tooling required to complete your task

Further information can be obtained on enquiry.

Full Driving Licence
Driving a vehicle is a requirement of the job; project managers are provided with a vehicle to attend multiple customer sites which are remote and not accessible by public transport.

A Recognised HND level Qualification or above
Project Management
H&S (i.e. IOSHH or NEBOSH)

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• SSG Functional Competence Area 1: Electronic Security Installation – Awareness
• SSG Functional Competence Area 1: Physical Security Installation – Practitioner

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Offered Benefits

• Highly competitive Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%.
• Alternative working practices such as working from home.
• Opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
• 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• Most sites have free car parking, Sports & Social Clubs, Gym, on site shops and subsidised canteens.
• Company Vehicle Provided

To learn more about our full range of benefits, view our Candidate Information Guide attached.

Allowances

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Employment Hours

The post advertised is for 37 hours net, however the Ministry of Defence offers a range of flexibilities to enable a better work-life balance for employees. Flexible working, s will be considered.