Ministry of Defence

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• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Bristol - Abbey Wood North, BS34 8JH

About the job

Job summary

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?

Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence? 

Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.

• Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
• Our Mission – Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability. 

DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society. 

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

Come and join the DBS community today! 

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Job description

This role is to define and manage the Business Architecture for DBS, including Contracting, Procurement, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Military HR, Military Payroll, Civilian HR, Civilian Payroll and related Analytics capabilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Setting Business Architecture standards and principles ensuring alignment to cross-Defence and Cross-Government standards
• Working closely with a virtual/federated team of Design Leads across functions, DBS, Defence Digital and the Delivery Partners to ensure compliance with agreed design standards and principles and development of a coherent end-to-end Business Architecture artefacts for DBS
• This will include motivations, user personas, user stories, requirements and process models, aligned to DBS goals. Maintaining robust governance to agree and record design decisions and secure cross-functional agreement of outputs
• Support business capability gap analysis to enable the definition of a business change work stream
• Collaborating with Technical Architects to ensure current and future technical scopes satisfy the full DBS business capability scope. Drive the maintenance and uplift of information through-life to enable continuous assessment of change impacts

Person specification

• Proven track record of leading and delivering Business Architecture within a project, programme or portfolio environment
• Experience leading a teams, with an understanding of how to create a collaborative and innovative culture that drives high performance and continuous improvement
• Comprehensive knowledge of Corporate Services
• Proficiency in tools, methodologies and frameworks to support architectural design, governance, strategic development and stakeholder communication.
• A great listener with excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentational), including the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non-technical users, adapting communication style, language and format to fit the needs of the audience.
• Experience building positive relationships across diverse stakeholder groups; able to understand and manage multiple perspectives, build consensus and influence stakeholders at all levels, encouraging them to make decisions that align with the strategy, policies, principles and best interests of the enterprise.
• A flexible approach, capable of managing uncertainty, adapting to changing priorities and providing direction to others to overcome ambiguity

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

• Business Architecture
• Methods & Tools

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• An environment with flexible working options Monday-Friday
• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service (pro rata). In addition to 8 public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The Sovereign's birthday
• Hybrid working where role permits
• An opportunity to be considered for Reward and Recognition - £250-£5000 per year
• Family-friendly policies including - parental leave and adoption leave
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Professional and personal development of skills
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Minimum of 15 days special leave in a rolling 12 month period for volunteer reserve commitments
• Special paid leave to volunteer up to 6 days per year
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%

Allowances 

The post does not offer relocation expenses. 

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. 

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

Employment Hours 

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. 

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : John Hogan
• Email : john.hogan719@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBS-EnhancedRecruitmentTeam@mod.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact DBS-EnhancedRecruitmentTeam@MOD.gov.uk in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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