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MOD Main Building, London (but see below for information about flexible/ hybrid working)

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team involved with varied and stimulating MOD business, including protection of military capabilities whilst enabling exports that benefit UK prosperity. This post leads on implementing effective Special Access Programme (SAP) security processes for the Strategic Programmes Directorate SAP portfolio. This includes assurance of all internal SAP activity, as well as SAP work being delivered by industry for the Directorate. The job includes coordinating all aspects of security in the Directorate as well as activities to ensure the Capability Protection team functions coherently. To achieve this the team requires people with good interpersonal and organisational skills who can build and maintain effective relationships with diverse partners.

Capability Protection is the collective term for activities undertaken to protect the Operational Advantage (Op Adv) [battle-winning edge] and ensure the Freedom of Action (FoA) to acquire the equipment we need and use it as we choose, which are essential for, and integral to, the effectiveness of our military capability.

The Capability Protection team of 11 is in two parts, Plans and Operations. Its role is to support the development, and implementation, of strategies across Defence and industry to safeguard UK military capability. The principal way of delivering this is by developing, maintaining, and embedding policy and guidance for Capability Protection, as well as advising on industry export license and MOD F680 applications. It also leads on the security (accurate handling and management) of information, including Special Access Programmes (SAP) across the Directorate and its suppliers.

The team is part of the Strategic Programmes Directorate which is responsible for improving the outcomes from our investment in military capability, including international influence and prosperity objectives. We pride ourselves on bringing people together to achieve remarkable things; seeing the bigger picture, identifying, and seizing opportunities, thinking creatively to tackle difficult issues, and proactively helping Defence to understand and make choices.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The post holder:

• Ensures the accurate establishment and functional management of Special Access Programmes (SAP) and other compartmented work to confirm compliance with the SAP handbook. Partners for such work include Strategic Programmes, Military Commands, Defence Equipment & Support, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and industry.
• Leads compliance visits to industry sites delivering work handled in SAP compartments, ensuring that the physical infrastructure and IT has been accredited, that work is being run in accordance with regulations and that there is evidence of the required security culture and behaviours, providing training and mentorship if required.
• Provides the secretariat function to ensure effective working of the Strategic Programmes SAP Governance Board. This includes all arrangements for meetings, as well as the preparation and submission of SAP progress reports.
• Leads on the security aspects of all Capability Protection policies.
• Directs effective security across Strategic Programmes’ workspaces.
• Ensures efficient administration and knowledge management to deliver coherence within the team, as well as being responsible for business continuity contingencies.
• Line manages one Higher Executive Officer and one Administrative Officer.

Essential criteria. You will:

• have a strong understanding of security policy within the public sector and a proven track record of delivering effective security controls, information assurance and risk management;
• have good organisational skills to coordinate accurate establishment and functional management of Special Access Programmes, as well as to prepare for and support related review meetings;
• have good communication skills to build and maintain effective relationships across a broad range of partners;
• demonstrate excellent collaborative working skills to ensure that security audits, of both Defence and industry, are recognised as supportive rather than punitive;
• have the ability to identify and translate high level security requirements into realistic action plans, coupled with the credibility to provide authoritative and influential security advice, taking decisions based on relevant information from internal and external sources;
• be confident using MS Office Applications, particularly Word and Excel.
• be familiar with wider organisational priorities and understand how they shape our work.
  
  You must have previous experience in security roles and additional training will be available. You do not need previous knowledge of Capability Protection as this will be developed once in post.

Any experience pertinent to this vacancy should be described in your application. This will be explored in detail during interviews.

Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to get in touch for further information (contact details below).

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership

Strategic Programmes actively seeks to provide an inclusive working environment which gets the best from every member of our team, and which recognises people for their dedication and integrity. We are a learning organisation in which everyone is encouraged to develop their careers and build knowledge, skills, and experience across the full span of our work. For example, opportunities include on-line training, short courses, apprenticeships, and part-time MBAs.

We seek and encourage diversity of thought, background, experience, and approach. We do not discriminate on any grounds, including disability, race, religion, colour, ethnic or other identity. We recognise that everyone has different personal and family commitments and encourage applications from those who require flexible working patterns. Although the job is based in London, the team has adopted a flexible hybrid working system; there is scope for some work to be done from home. However, you will be expected to attend the office several days a month, to work with the rest of the team and others, as well as to access information not available on a laptop at home. You will regularly be required to attend meetings at other Defence and industry establishments in UK and occasionally overseas.

• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Inner London Weighting allowance applies (£3000pa).
• Annual leave – up to 30 days.
• A Civil Service pension.

Darlington, Leeds, Manchester

This recruitment is continuing as usual, but candidates should be aware that following the Government’s announcement on the changes to some civil service departments, roles will be located in the new Department for Business and Trade. We will provide more information if you are selected for a role. This work remains of high importance to the civil service, and we thank you for your continued interest.

This is an exciting time to join the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). We are the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

The English Regions (ER) directorate leads the delivery of DBT’s export and investment support across the English Regions. You will be part of the Northern Powerhouse (NPH) team which is tasked with growing the North of England through trade and investment. This team plays an important role Government’s Levelling Up agenda. We also work proactively to deliver and support the HMG Exports Strategy, which sets out the UK’s ambition to grow exports as a share of GDP and the framework to deliver this.

The Data Insights team within the Northern Powerhouse team analyse data and produce insights for operational and strategic decision making, operating at the forefront of business and customer data analysis within government.

The effective use of data and insight is a key departmental priority, and we are looking for a talented Customer Insight Analyst to join our team.

Based in one of our DIT Northern offices (Darlington, Leeds, Manchester). The role will be centred on using your data analysis skills to generate key insights and interpretations to support evidence-based decision and policy making. You will assist the Data Insights Manager in establishing a systematic and methodological approach to the production of internal and external data-led customer insights to enable effective data-led decisions.  

You will be familiar with collaborating with other analysts on developing data sets and associated insight reports and have a good understanding of how to produce high quality written reports and visual representations of findings to inform decision making.

The Customer Insight Analyst will;

• Use and analyse complex internal and external datasets, including CRM data, economic indicators, export performance and data from 3rd party platforms.
• Identify appropriate data sources to use to answer research questions and highlight any data gaps and limitations.
• Build dashboards to present results or prepare one-off visualisations depending on the project.
• Monitor and analyse key pieces of business intelligence.
• Design effective data visualisations in multiple formats and add narrative where required to help internal stakeholders understand results, trends and outcomes.
• When required, present findings to senior team members, with support of Data Insights Manager.

Hybrid working

 The role will be based in either Darlington, Leeds or Manchester. You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DBT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

Appointments will be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences.

Support in applying for our vacancies is available by joining a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.

Essential Criteria

• Strong written, data visualisation and oral skills.
• Experience of extracting, manipulating and analysing data from a variety of sources.
• The ability to present analysis and recommendations succinctly in either visual written or verbal format.
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills.
• Experience of using Excel and Data Visualisation software, e.g. Power BI or Quicksight.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of using statistical analysis software (e.g., SQL/SAS/R/SPSS).
• Experience of producing microdata analysis in a government context.

Personal Attributes & Skills

This is a varied and dynamic role in a busy team, with plenty of opportunity for learning and broadening your skills and knowledge. We are looking for an individual who:

• Uses initiative to find solutions.
• Is good at working and communicating with others including external partners and senior individuals.
• Is friendly, approachable, and proactive in supporting others in the team.
• Can answer questions and is able to tell a story with data.
• Is capable of building continually refreshed dashboards.
• Delivers and promotes good data visualisation and comunication practices.
• Is a confident team player with experience of supporting others.
• Demonstrates a strong results driven approach, recognising the need for accuracy, prioritising multiple demands and meeting deadlines.

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

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

• 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%.

Whitehall

We are looking for an experienced all-source analyst or international policy professional to join the JIO Assessments Staff. You will be capable of producing high-quality assessment to tight deadlines, with a track record of working closely with senior customers and subject matter experts. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the centre of HMG’s national security machinery, helping to inform the UK’s response to priority national and international issues.

About the JIO

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), the National Security Council (NSC), the Prime Minister and other key decision-makers by providing authoritative, robust all-source intelligence assessment on a vast range of national security and foreign policy priorities.

You can read more about working for the JIO in the information pack attached at the bottom of this advert.

The Role

You and your small team will produce all-source strategic assessments that help to inform a range of policy decisions. Working closely with other experts across HMG, JIO’s role is to present a single, agreed view on HMG priority issues, as well as writing intelligence highlights for the Prime Minister. The successful candidate will likely focus on matters relating to Russia although could be posted to any assessment team within the JIO.

This post is only open to British Citizens. Some dual nationals may be ineligible. The successful candidate must obtain Developed Vetting (DV) clearance if not already held. As they will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process.  Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment.  Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.

If your application is successful, you will:

• Analyse information from a range of sources to produce timely, robust and policy-relevant assessments, supporting your team colleagues to do the same.  
• Take the lead in authoring a variety of short and long-form products read by senior customers, including the Prime Minister.  
• Develop deep subject-matter expertise, including an understanding of policy requirements.
• Establish strong working relationships with HMG stakeholders and customers and international allies. You will also be encouraged to consult academic, think-tank and private sector analysis. 
• Routinely use structured analytical techniques in your own work, and facilitate multi-agency and international workshops, including ‘challenge’ sessions.
• Contribute to the wider team’s work or to wider JIO work, both to support colleagues and for your own development. You may occasionally be asked to support crisis working or work unsociable hours, often with little or no notice. 

Skills and Experience Required

The successful candidate will:

• Be a proactive self-starter, experienced in producing evidence-based assessment for a senior audience. If you have a desire to learn, then we will invest in you to develop your skills and expertise;
• Have experience in gathering and analysing information from diverse sources;
• Be organised, able to work across several different work strands at any given time; 
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player, able to develop and manage close working relationships with colleagues across organisational boundaries, leveraging your network to deliver;
• Have experience of having worked either in an all-source assessment role or working on other political or security issues;
• Have strong written and oral communication skills. This includes excellent drafting skills and the ability to draw key conclusions from a large volume of (sometimes conflicting) evidence.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of assessment work or relevant subject matter expertise;
• Experience of using structured analytical techniques and methodologies;
• Existing relevant subject matter expertise, in particular on Russia and the former Soviet Union;
• A strong existing network of contacts across government, external organisations or international partners. 

We invest in upskilling our team members to enable them to thrive once they start working with us. As such, if you don’t quite match these desirable skills, don’t let it put you off applying as we will equip the successful candidate with them once you are in post.

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together

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

• Gathering, Organising & Evaluating Intelligence & Information (Highly Proficient)
• Analysis, Tradecraft and Assessment (Highly Proficient)
• Informing Decision Making (Highly Proficient)
• Written and Visual Communication of Intelligence Assessment (Highly Proficient)

Annual salary increases will depend upon individual performance and contribution to the organisation’s success. In addition there will be the opportunity to earn performance related bonuses.

Existing civil servants can take up the post on loan from their parent department for the duration advertised (permission from their parent department would need to be secured in order to take up the post). Those joining on level transfer will retain their current salary. Staff joining on promotion terms will receive up to a 10% increase of their current basic salary or the pay band minimum whichever is the greater. Staff joining on promotion will adopt the modernised terms and conditions of employment which came into force in 2013.

Birmingham, Leeds, London

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have experience of producing and presenting performance information to a wide range of audiences including senior managers?

Are you someone who has expertise and experience in the analysis and reporting of management information?

Can you use experience of maintaining performance indicators to deliver continuous improvement?

If so, then this is the perfect role for you!

We are seeking a driven and motivated individual to join us here within the Aviation Security International Operations (ASIO) Division in the Department for Transport. This role will give you the perfect opportunity to carry out quality assurance and analysis to ensure the department is meeting their objectives.

So please apply!

Please note: This is a Part-time position, if successful you will be required to work 18.75 hours per week covering a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

The UK has the third largest aviation industry in the world, and aviation security has become a high priority in light of the current threat environment. Whilst we have control over security arrangements applied in the UK, our influence over security procedures applied to inbound flights is much less direct. Yet it is of great importance that the right security measures are applied for flights to the UK, for the safety of all passengers on those flights whether UK citizens or not. And it is of economic importance, for the UK and partner countries, that we maintain the conditions under which essential air lines can continue and grow. 

The Transport Security Directorate (TSD), works across the Department for Transport (DfT), His Majesty’s Government (HMG) and with partners to mitigate the threats the transport sector faces domestically and internationally. We lead on high profile work to implement and improve the transport sector’s cyber security, maritime and aviation security regimes as well as working with international partners to raise global standards and build capability. As the national security threats transport faces evolve, we are working across DfT to ensure that these issues are reflected in the Department’s work to ensure that we balance prosperity with security objectives.

Within the directorate, the Aviation Security International Operations (ASIO) division support DFT’s strategic priorities by working collaboratively with host states and partners to assess vulnerabilities and building aviation security capabilities in a number of high-risk locations – ASIO’s priority countries. The work undertaken by ASIO is critical in supporting senior officials’ and Ministers’ risk tolerance and approach to mitigating the inbound aviation threat to the UK.

The Performance and Assurance Analyst will be responsible carrying out quality assurance of all airport assessment and additional measures activities data, ensuring compliance with all agreed data collation. This role will report to the Performance and Assurance Lead.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Carrying out data assurance across ASIO operations ensuring compliance with all agreed data collation.
• Gather, validate, and analyse performance information relating to ASIO business performance both internally and externally.
• Carrying out quality assurance of all airport assessment and additional measures activities data, ensuring consistency between scores, narrative and codified answers.
• Track operational KPI’s to monitor and promote delivery of business objectives.

For a more detailed description of the role and it’s responsibilities, please see the attached Role profile.

About you

To be successful, you will need to have experience of the following:

• Knowledge of the principles of effective performance management.
• Experience of interrogating and analysing databases to provide performance information.
• Experience of producing and presenting performance information to a wide range of audiences, including senior managers.
• Experience of maintaining performance indicators to deliver continuous improvement.
• Experience of using benchmarking to drive up performance.
• Experience and understanding of managing sensitive business information.
• Expertise and experience in the analysis and reporting of management information.
• Solutions focused but takes time to analyse and consider impacts.
• Uses initiative to solve problems/challenges.
• Must be able to meet deadlines and prioritise.

Additional information

There will be some travel involved with this role, this is likely to occur twice per year and may include overnight stays.

A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

London

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities

Do you have an interest in intelligence analysis?

Would you like to develop your career in intelligence?

Can you deliver high quality work against tight deadlines?

If so, our Intelligence and Threats Advisor role within the Department for Transport (DfT) would be suited to you and we’d like you to apply.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who may be early on in their intelligence career and looking to develop or who already has an established intelligence background.

You will gain exposure into different policy areas and supporting translation of intelligence assessments into tangible policy and operational decisions, within a department that is growing in its national security credentials.

This role sits within the Intelligence and Threats Team (ITT), which itself is a part of the Transport Security Operation Centre (TSOC). TSOC leads the department’s planning for and responses to major incidents which impact the transport network, both domestically and internationally.  As part of ITT, you will support the department’s security and resilience portfolios.

The role of the Intelligence and Threats team within the DfT is to:

•  Work with policy decision makers in the DfT to ensure policy and capability decisions are appropriately influenced by the threat picture.
•  Work with the UK intelligence community to influence their priorities and ensure the DfTs intelligence requirements are being met.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working on thematic and modal areas ensuring that the relevant modal colleagues are kept up to date on the threat picture. 
• Triage intelligence on behalf of the department, alerting the relevant modal teams and producing briefing packs for them.
• Collating incoming intelligence to deliver oral and written threat briefs for DfT colleagues, up to ministerial level.
• Identifying emerging trends in threat to transport.
• Developing partnerships with external partners.

As the Division also leads on a wide variety of other tasks, there is likely to be an opportunity to be involved in other areas of responsibility. Flexibility within the role is essential.

For more information about the role and responsibilities, please refer to the role profile attached.

About you

We are looking for someone who either has an established intelligence background or would like to develop their current career in intelligence, with an interest in being involved in role where intelligence is used to influence policy.

You will have excellent engagement skills and be someone who can build rapport quickly with others as you develop effective working relationships both within the department and beyond. You will have excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of 
audiences. You will be adept at both working autonomously and as part of a team, collaborating with others to achieve shared objectives.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences. You are someone who can work at pace while managing multiple and often conflicting priorities to time and to a high standard.

Given the fast-paced evolution of threats, and the changing nature of transport systems, the post holder will need to be able to assimilate and communicate sensitive, sometimes technical, information to support risk mitigation and policy development.

You will often be working on multiple priority workstreams at any one time, so brilliant organisational skills and calmness under pressure are paramount to this role.

Additional Information

A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

Due to the specific requirements of this role the role holder will be required to be in the office 3-5 days a week.

Please note, there may be a need for you to partake in temporary on-call work, should a situation arise that requires it. There may be an allowance available if this were to happen.

The role requires DV clearance however candidates can onboard with SC Clearance and continue undergoing DV whilst in post. Should the successful candidate not obtain DV then there will be a requirement to be re-deployed to an alternative post should a position be available.

This post is offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) basis for 2 years. Permanent Civil Servants will not be expected to change their employment status from permanent to fixed term appointment. OGD applicants will be appointed on inward loan and subject to the terms of the agreed inward loan agreement. Internal applicants will be appointed on inward loan and subject to the terms of the agreed inward loan agreement. The expectation is that you will return to your previous post at the end of the loan period, which will need to be agreed with your line manager in advance.  If you’re employed by a non-departmental public body (NDPB) by moving jobs this will involve a change of employer and you may break the statutory rules on .

There will be an opportunity for permanency at the end of the FTA.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Co-operation, Co-ordination and Challenge – Proficient level (See description on Gov.uk Intelligence Analysis Development Framework)
• Informing decision making – Proficient level (See description on Gov.uk Intelligence Analysis Development Framework)

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

• Co-operation, Co-ordination and Challenge – Proficient level (See description on Gov.uk Intelligence Analysis Development Framework)

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it’s like working at the Department for Transport.

National

Birmingham

Abbey Wood, Bristol

The Defence Nuclear Security Regulator (DefNucSyR) is responsible for providing independent assurance to senior officials and Ministers on the adequacy of nuclear security across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE), ensuring that nuclear material, information and assets critical to the Continuous At-Sea Deterrent (CASD) mission are secure.  We work closely with a number of organisations within Ministry of Defence and industry partners that are directly responsible for security, as well as those with oversight and governance responsibilities, including the Directorate of Security and Resilience, Defence Nuclear Organisation, and Navy Command. To continue to develop good practice in nuclear security regulation, we maintain routine engagement with nuclear regulatory counterparts within Defence, the UK civil sector and international partners.

DefNucSyR is recruiting a new Lead inspector who will focus on the regulation of command, control, communications and computing (C4) capabilities that support the UK’s Continuous At-Sea Deterrent (CASD). You will undertake regulatory inspections, assess security planning and provide security exercise assessments, as well as supporting security investigations as required, and making recommendations on nuclear security improvements. As a Lead Inspector, you will directly contribute to providing confidence to the Permanent Secretary of the security of the UK’s Defence Nuclear Programme.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Assuming responsibility for day-to-day regulatory interactions with the areas for which you are the lead. This includes planning and conducting inspections and audits that will assess security arrangements and exercises, providing evidence of compliance with the regulatory expectations set out in Defence’s nuclear security regulatory framework.
• Preparation of inspection and assessment reports, as well as monthly reports to the Principal Inspector.
• Supporting the ongoing development and maintenance of the DefNucSyR Regulatory Management System to deliver effective and proportionate nuclear security regulatory arrangements across the defence nuclear programme.
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with other nuclear regulators, including the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR), to share lessons learned and develop best practice approaches and provide relevant assurance (in a competent authority role).
• Act as a functional lead for a security domain area to support other DefNucSyR Inspectors as required, by providing SME input into areas not directly within your responsibility, including being part of inspection and assessment teams.
• Contribute to growing nuclear security professionalism across the DNE, through maintaining high standards of personal nuclear security professionalism and supporting knowledge sharing across the enterprise.

All DefNucSyR inspectors are supported through a comprehensive and individually tailored learning and development plan designed to build their expertise across nuclear, security and regulatory disciplines. Following this there will be a requirement to pass a DAP(Sy) board in order to receive delegated authority to perform your duties within Nuclear Security Regulation.

This post is on the MOD Civilian Nuclear Post Control List (PCL) and may attract the Nuclear Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA). This is a discretionary allowance. The post being listed on the PCL does not mean that the post holder will have an automatic entitlement to receive the RRA. The NSQEP RRA is not a contractual allowance and can be amended or withdrawn without notice in line with MOD Main and Submarine Delivery Agency policy.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate evidence and achievements of:

• Experience of either the security and/or nuclear environments.
• An understanding of cyber and/or physical security, preferably within the public sector.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills, able to engage with clarity and authority across a wide range of stakeholders;
• Sound judgement, able to assess evidence and determine proportionate regulatory responses to emerging findings;
• Good stakeholder management skills, able to build relationships and work with colleagues across wider MOD as well as with external organisations and international peers;
• An innovative approach, able to bring new ways of thinking and working to provide optimal solutions in the development and delivery of effective regulation.

The following skills and experience would be advantageous to any prospective candidates, but a comprehensive learning and development plan is established for all new inspectors:

• An understanding of the nuclear regulatory environment.
• An understanding of the application of security in the Defence/government context, with a working knowledge of Ministry of Defence security policy an advantage.
• Any training, qualifications or certifications in the nuclear sector and/or a security domain, and membership of a relevant professional body.
• Experience of delivering audit and/or assurance roles, and any associated qualifications or certifications.

Full UK Driving License

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

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

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:

• Protective Security (Government Security Career Framework)
• Legal and regulatory environment and compliance

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria.

At the MOD we offer our employees a wide range of benefits that can be used to support life within and outside of work.  This helps us to ensure that we are offering benefits to people at all stages of life, pursuing a variety of lifestyles; whether that is starting a family, saving money for a house or caring for an elderly relative. These benefits include:

• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
• A market-leading employer pension contribution of around 27%
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible, to support your work-life balance.
• A huge range of discounts including retail, sports, leisure, restaurants, gifts, days out, holidays, cinema, motoring, insurance, health care, gym memberships, and more
• Up to six days of paid leave a year for volunteering
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave schemes, offering 100% pay for 26 weeks (after a qualifying period)

The Defence School of Intelligence, StratCom Chicksands

The Defence School of Intelligence (DSI) is key to enabling Defence Intelligence (DI) to deliver its operational capability, running over 40 courses that focus on delivering initial and specialist intelligence training to quad-service personnel. The school mission is ‘to train capable Intelligence professionals, at the required standard, in a safe and sustainable manner in order to support Defence effort.’ The DSI Training Evaluation Manager will lead the Internal Validation (InVal) of the school’s courses.

Please note: Under Defence Intelligence Training Group (DITG) re-structuring this position may be re-established in DITG HQ. Role will remain extant; however, remit may expand to conduct Training Evaluation of all DITG courses (as part of a wider team).

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Develop, implement and manage the DSI Phase 2 and Phase 3 training InVal for 40 different courses and approx. 3,500 trainees per annum and to manage Wing InVal facilitators, ensuring the process is conducted following the completion of DSI courses. Manage Wing InVal facilitators; ensuring Wing InVal is conducted following the completion of DSI courses. Conduct trend analysis and take action based on results; coordinating tasks across DSI and DITG areas of responsibility to include: Assessment results Attainment levels Initial assessment results Conduct targeted reviews of trainee assessment results based on trend analysis, reporting to DSI HQ, DITG or DI Training Authority boards as required. Monitor, track and report DSI trainer qualification/competence status. Support moderation of assessment marking and end of course wash up. Within capacity, support DSI Ops team to maintain operational effectiveness of the DSI.

Ability to work well with others in a supportive and constructive way

High level of computer literacy – in particular O365

Well-developed communication practice

Qualifications (Civilian Equivalent Acceptable)

Instructional Defence Trainer (Desirable)

Defence Trainer Supervisor (Desirable)

Defence Trainer Manager (Desirable)

Internal Validation – 9006 (DCTS) (Desirable)

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

• Changing and Improving
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

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

• Changing and Improving
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service

• 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%