Job Title : Defence Intelligence – DH Strategy and Performance

Company Name: UK Ministry of Defence

Job Details:  Defence Intelligence – DH Strategy and Performance | UK Ministry of Defence
17-21 minutes
About the job
MoD Main Building, London, Whitehall

Job Summary

We are Defence’s Intelligence, working for the safety, security and prosperity of the UK and our Allies. DI senses, understands, and acts.

We are an organisation based on brilliant people – our focus is as much building the team as completing the task. We take pride in our leadership and management approach, based on our core values of courage, candour, creativity, and community. Our organisational culture prizes professional excellence, collaboration by default, diverse representation, and inclusion. Central to this is our focus on learning, training, and development.

We lead and manage our foundational data, intelligence and assessment with professional rigour and discipline and a strong customer focus. Our impact spans from the strategic to the tactical, at one end assuring the UK nuclear deterrent and at the other, providing intelligence support directly to deployed troops. We provide extraordinary insight, advice and advantage to decision-makers, responding to strategic challenges and acute threat. We keep watch and advise on other global, regional, thematic, and operational issues, maintaining worldwide 24/7 awareness.

In all our work we focus on innovation and improving for the future, continuously evolving our organisation, people, technology, and tradecraft to bring intelligence advantage now and in the future.

The Directorate of Strategy and Enterprise (DSE) is one of three 2* pillars in Defence Intelligence. Its role is to cohere Defence’s intelligence vision & direction, strengthen DI’s world-leading professionals, and design and deliver a leading-edge, globally integrated intelligence business now and for the future.

Within DSE, the Strategy and Performance team has five core responsibilities. It undertakes:

Strategy development

Strategic planning

Performance reporting and risk management.

Business change initiatives

Governance and assurance

The holder of the advertised post will lead a team of seven staff supported by reservist and contractor personnel. They will work closely with, and report directly to, the 2* Director Strategy and Enterprise to deliver team and directorate objectives.

Your unique experience, view and understanding of the world will provide a vital perspective and contribution to our impact. We recognise that great minds do not think alike and are striving to increase our diversity at all levels. As an equal opportunity employer we hire, train, and promote people based on merit, and aspire to create an inclusive workplace free of discrimination. We also offer flexible working arrangements such as flexi-time, and compressed hours. This post is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job Description

The DI DH Strategy and Performance leads DI’s organisational strategy-making and implementation. The core challenge is to understand our 5000-strong business, and the wider Function of Intelligence across MOD, and balance our resources for the best possible intelligence and Defence impacts. The DH Strategy and Performance will design and implement a continuous business cycle of:

gathering metrics and information about our desired impact and outcomes and required activities and inputs, current performance and organisational risk profile.
creating business plans that respond to these metrics and information.
communicating the business activities and changes required to our business unit heads, and our finance and people functions, who enact them.

The DH Strategy and Performance also

leads our engagement and alignment with Head Office and UKStratCom on Defence and Command planning, ensuring DI is strategically coherent with MOD and wider partners.
leads the Function of Intelligence team.
is a trusted advisor to the Senior Leadership Team, designing and leading the exploration and generation of strategic choices to support transformation of DI into the next decades, skilfully bringing stakeholders with us.
leads the DI Communication, ensuring internal and external Communications are delivered effectively and professionally.

Leadership And Management Of a Team Of Seven Permanent Staff, One Part-time Reservist, And An Approved-in-principle, But Not Placed, External Assistance Contract To Deliver:

the annual DI Management Plan coherent with national, departmental and command strategies and plans.
understanding of our corporate performance and risk and reporting as required.
maturation of our performance and risk approach.
initiatives designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the business and balance demand against resources now and in the future.
Secretariat of the Intelligence Function, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Defence-wide intelligence community.
evidencing and contributing to sound, future-proof strategy, and decision-making for both DI and the Function of Intelligence.

The post holder will need to routinely engage with 1*/OF5/Gd 6 stakeholders across the Defence Intelligence business, and Strategy and Planning teams in UKStratCom and Head Office. The post holder will also need to maintain a network of Gd 7/OF4 business leads across DI to support their objectives. Strategy and Performance is a standing agenda item in the Defence Intelligence Management Board (1*) and the post holder will work with 2*s and 3*s on a weekly basis.

Leadership And Management Of a Team Of Seven Permanent Staff, One Part-time Reservist, And An Approved-in-principle, But Not Placed, External Assistance Contract To Deliver:

the annual DI Management Plan coherent with national, departmental and command strategies and plans.
understanding of our corporate performance and risk and reporting as required.
maturation of our performance and risk approach.
initiatives designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the business and balance demand against resources now and in the future.
Secretariat of the Intelligence Function, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Defence-wide intelligence community.
evidencing and contributing to sound, future-proof strategy, and decision-making for both DI and the Function of Intelligence.

The post holder will need to routinely engage with 1*/OF5/Gd 6 stakeholders across the Defence Intelligence business, and Strategy and Planning teams in UKStratCom and Head Office. The post holder will also need to maintain a network of Gd 7/OF4 business leads across DI to support their objectives. Strategy and Performance is a standing agenda item in the Defence Intelligence Management Board (1*) and the post holder will work with 2*s and 3*s on a weekly basis.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

The successful candidate will:

Have experience of collective leadership across a complex organisation to achieve organisation-level outcomes.
Be a strategic thinker, with experience of successfully building, leading and implementing organisational strategy.
Be a trusted adviser and have experience of advising senior colleagues within complex organisational constructs.
Have experience of leading through transformation or organisational change.
Have experience of monitoring and evaluation, and/or applying risk frameworks/approaches.
Have great stakeholder engagement skills with a track record of building effective relationships with senior decision-makers and peers.
have excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
Can work flexibly and respond to evolving priorities, and to deliver to short notice deadlines.
Have resilience, tenacity and skill to overcome organisational resistance and barriers.

Desirable Criteria:

The successful candidate is likely to have:

Experience of intelligence or national security.
Experience of Defence planning and/or strategy.
Experience of building and using Theory of Change and Logic Models.
Experience of line or team management.

Behaviours

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

Leadership
Seeing the Big Picture
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions

Alongside your salary of £70,540, Ministry of Defence contributes £20,435 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Benefits for Recruitment Advertising

There are a wide variety of employee benefits for civil service staff in DI, including (this list is not exhaustive):

Salary Payroll Giving
Financial Education Resources
Bicycle Purchase Advance & Cycle to Work Scheme
Holiday, Season Ticket, Tenancy Deposit & Work Space Salary Advance Loans
Free Parking (not available at Main Building)
Generous Pension Scheme with employer contribution between 26.6% & 30.3%
Death in Service Benefit
Up to 30 days’ Annual Leave, and one Privilege Day
Special Leave (including Study Leave and Volunteering Leave)
Adoption, Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave
Childcare Vouchers
On-Site Nursery & Childcare at some MOD sites
Flexible Working Hours
Discounted Healthcare Packages
Eyesight Tests and Spectacles
Free On-Site Gyms at many sites
Employee Assistance Programme
In-Year Reward and Thank You Schemes
Talent Schemes
Defence Discounts
Microsoft & Vodafone Employee Discount Schemes
Boundless and Civil Service Sports Council Memberships available
On-site shops, restaurants & cafes at most sites
London locations may attract an allowance of £3,300 per annum
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 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.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

To apply, please submit

A CV, no longer than two pages long.
A personal statement, no longer than two pages long, which outlines how your skills |

Country: United Kingdom