The role holds ownership of information security and cyber risk across DNO and provides strategic influence throughout the organisation, working across boundaries to ensure effective risk management and security practices.

The position is critical for maintaining a coherent enterprise view of information security risk and strengthening DNO’s overall security posture.

The post-holder will operate in a challenging and evolving cyber threat environment, facing risks from hostile states, criminals, ransomware groups, and others.

As DNO becomes increasingly digital and data-led, the expanding attack surface underscores the importance of strong cyber leadership to protect critical systems, information, and services.

Job Description

• Provide strategic leadership and accountability for cyber security across DNO, including policy framework, secure-by-design principles, and alignment with government and MOD requirements.
• Lead and develop a specialist cyber security team, managing resources, budget, capability while providing clear and trusted advice to senior leaders and governance boards.
• Deliver independent oversight and assurance of cyber and technology risks, ensuring effective risk management and escalation of material risks.
• Lead and coordinate senior responses to major cyber incidents, ensuring effective escalation, operational decision support, and post-incident learning.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD CISO, Product Owners, and CIO leads, to embed security into digital, data, technology, and transformation initiatives.
• Ensure cyber risk transparency through evidence-based reporting to support informed decision-making on resilience, mitigation, and investment.
• Manage cyber security resources effectively to deliver value for money and maintain organisational resilience amid evolving threats.

Person Specification

• Expert knowledge of cyber security, information risk management and protective security, including cyber threats, risk mitigation and security controls.
• Proven ability to develop and implement cyber security strategies, policies and control frameworks aligned with government, national and industry standards.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to assess cyber threats, vulnerabilities and risks, challenge technical evidence, and provide clear advice to senior leaders.
• Proven experience of leading responses to major cyber incidents, demonstrating sound judgement and effective decision-making in complex, high-pressure environments.
• Strong strategic leadership capability, with the ability to set direction, drive improvement, and align cyber security outcomes with organisational objectives.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical issues for non-technical audiences and deliver outcomes across complex organisations.

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of technology services and secure delivery practices.
• Ability to collaborate with suppliers delivering critical services, sharing incident and risk information to strengthen overall security posture.
• Ability to evaluate emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities in legacy systems, interdependencies across services, and security risks associated with new technologies such as artificial intelligence, applying national and MOD policies pragmatically.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £115,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £33,315 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

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As one of three Deputy Directors within the Enterprise Portfolio Team (EPT), you will play a pivotal role in shaping strategic decision-making across the DNE’s extensive portfolio of Government Major Projects and critical delivery activities.

The Enterprise Portfolio Team drives enterprise-wide priorities, improving business planning, embedding professionalisation and consistency in project delivery, and enhancing management information, analysis, and insight.

In this role, you will strengthen and evolve the DNE’s enterprise analytical capability, delivering strategic, evidence-based insights that build confidence in managing a complex, interdependent portfolio.

Your work will reduce strategic risks, optimise investment decisions, and support the Secretary of State’s oversight of the enterprise.

Strategic Leadership and Enterprise Planning

• Lead the sustainment and development of the Nuclear Enterprise Integrated Network (NEIN) to inform enterprise availability, identify opportunities, and optimise delivery.
• Utilise the NEIN, alongside other data sources and tools, to identify conflicts, opportunities, and optimisation options for enterprise delivery.
• Commission and oversee strategic analysis to identify emerging issues or threats to the DNE plan, leveraging key artefacts such as enterprise assumptions, dependencies, and strategic risks.
• Provide senior leaders with evidence-based recommendations and insights to inform investment decisions, portfolio balancing, and strategic interventions.
• Champion the implementation of technological advances and innovative analytical methodologies to enhance enterprise outputs and support the delivery of the DNE Enterprise Portfolio Team (EPT) strategy and associated change activities.

Data-Driven Analytics and Decision Support

• Direct and oversee complex, data-driven analytics to improve enterprise decision-making, including predictive modelling, optimisation, trend analysis, benchmarking, and pressure checks.
• Aggregate, integrate, and ensure the coherence of disparate enterprise information to deliver high-quality outputs that inform strategic decision-making up to ministerial level.
• Ensure robust quality assurance policies and processes are in place and consistently followed in the production of data, evidence, and analysis.
• Deliver timely responses to urgent requests, balancing the need for accuracy with the necessity of quick decision-making.

Risk Management and Horizon Scanning

• Work with relevant boards and forums to maintain, develop, and challenge the overall strategic risk register systematically and objectively.
• Provide horizon scanning and risk outputs to enable informed decision-making and proactive responses to potential strategic problems or changes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver interventions that build resilience against strategic shocks and pressures.

Stakeholder Engagement and Governance

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, using persuasion, influencing, and negotiation skills, to identify and communicate solutions that can be ratified through appropriate governance forums.
• Clearly communicate analytical results and complex concepts to non-expert audiences, including senior stakeholders, to secure buy-in and support for recommendations.
• Manage the demand for enterprise analysis across the DNE, ensuring that priorities are addressed transparently and effectively.

Cross-Functional Interventions and Delivery

• Lead pan-enterprise, cross-functional interventions in response to DNE Senior Leadership Team (SLT) directed objectives, such as deep-dive analyses, early interventions, and solutions to mission-critical issues.
• Oversee the delivery of interventions that address strategic challenges and ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.

Team Leadership and Culture

• Provide visible leadership to a geographically dispersed team of circa 15 specialists, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
• Inspire and develop team members, ensuring they are equipped with the skills and support needed to deliver high-quality outputs.

Person Specification

• Exceptional Leadership and Strategic Vision: Proven ability to lead and manage teams effectively, fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment, while setting and delivering strategic direction for an organisation.
• Innovative and Forward-Thinking: Skilled at researching, adopting, and applying new ideas and approaches, encouraging innovation to address challenges and emerging risks, with a commitment to seeing ideas through to successful implementation.
• Outstanding Communication and Influencing Skills: Ability to simplify and articulate complex technical language, presenting insights clearly and persuasively through compelling methods, including data visualisations, to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong Relationship Management: Demonstrated success in building and maintaining excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using these relationships to influence decisions and drive change at senior levels.
• Resilience and Wellbeing Leadership: Maintains personal resilience in high-pressure, complex environments while fostering a psychologically safe and supportive atmosphere to ensure team wellbeing and morale.
• Project Management and Problem-Solving Expertise: Strong project management skills with a track record of planning and delivering process improvement initiatives, combined with excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities focused on business outcomes.

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SONAC uses structured methods such as net assessment, wargaming, red teaming, and strategic analysis to test and improve developing plans and strategies within the department, and to explore and develop areas MoD may be missing. SONAC also acts as a lightning rod for external thought into the department – commissioning research and hosting roundtables and conferences to bring new and fresh perspectives into MOD.

In this role you will contribute to delivering strategic analysis, net assessment, and challenge on Russia, Ukraine, and related issues.

You will:

• Contribute to, and in some cases lead, workstreams on Russia and Ukraine;
• Identify key issues for research, balancing long-term net assessment with shorter-term strategic analysis and challenge;
• Support colleagues in SONAC's other analytical teams through applying your Subject Matter Expertise;
• Support and challenge relevant teams in MoD (and x-HMG) as they develop workstreams, policies, and strategies on and relating to Russia and/or Ukraine;
• Collaborate with, and build effective relationships with, relevant teams x-HMG (in the policy, strategy, intelligence, and analysis communities);
• Liaise with key stakeholders outside HMG, including selected international engagement;
• Develop credibility in MoD, x-HMG, and externally as an expert on Russia and/or Ukraine;
• Have opportunities to support or represent the team in meetings in MoD and x-HMG, including with Ministers and Defence Chiefs.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their experience and skills against the following Essential Criteria:

• Be an expert on either Russia, Ukraine and/or the UK's policies or strategies toward Russia and/or Ukraine;
• Be interested in international security, strategy, or defence issues;
• Have a track record of producing all-source assessment and/or analysis, or advice on Russia/Ukraine topics to senior decision makers, whether within government or outside (e.g., in academia or think tanks);
• Have excellent drafting skills, and an ability to translate deep/technical detail into concise strategic-level implications;
• Be an excellent communicator and be confident in engaging at senior levels across and outside government;
• Be a strong collaborator, and have, or be able to build, effective networks across and outside government on Russia and Russia-related issues;
• Be able to prioritise and manage a broad portfolio of work to deliver high-quality products, often at pace;
• Be willing to embrace a 'challenge mindset' through application of Subject Matter Expertise and structured analytical techniques.

Alongside your salary of £61,630, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,854 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Benefits include:

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%.

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As Cyber Advisory Services Secure by Design Lead, you'll lead a diverse team of cyber security professionals, delivering a generational change programme in Secure by Design. You'll provide effective advice and guidance on cyber security policy, governance, and technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage a programme of activities to continue delivery of Secure by Design across Defence.
• Enable an efficient and effective team through timely, impartial, and consistent assurance, assessment, and advisory services.
• Contribute to the future development of business processes and portfolios aligned to deliver strategic objectives.
• Build and strengthen relationships with other Cyber Security bodies and business functions across Defence.
• Lead and line-manage a team.
• Deliver comprehensive end-to-end task management.
• Play a leading role in delivering communications and awareness activities.
• Provide contingency support for security queries.

Person specification

• Previous experience in cyber security risk, information assurance, project/portfolio management within a digital services environment.
• Describe your working experience of practice or portfolio management in a digital environment.
• Tell us about your experience of working in a cyber security assurance or risk environment.
• Demonstrate your ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.
• Describe your experience of leading and/or line managing a team.
• Demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively to various audiences.

Additional information

• Eligible for a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £11,400 per annum.
• Opportunity to gain Certificate in Information Security Management Principles (CISMP).
• Position can be based at RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, Main Building, London or MOD Corsham, Wiltshire.
• Hybrid working arrangement available.

Benefits

• Salary of £46,040 per year.
• Contribution to Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• 25 days paid annual leave.
• Ability to roll up to 10 days annual leave per year.
• In addition to eight public holidays per year, leave for HM The King's birthday.
• Parental and Adoption Leave.
• Discounts on services within and external to the civil service.

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This role sits within Defence Risk and Assurance (DRA), Defence’s Risk Centre of Excellence. DRA supports the Chief Risk Officer in strengthening risk management, assurance and governance across Defence and provides advice, challenge and insight to senior leaders.

As a Risk and Assurance Professional, you will manage a portfolio of Defence business areas, using analysis, judgement and business partnering to help senior stakeholders understand their risk exposure, assurance needs and opportunities for improvement. You will translate complex information into clear insight and contribute to reporting for senior governance forums, including Executive Committee, the Defence Board and the Defence Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee.

This is a stretching opportunity for a high-performing SEO or experienced HEO ready to operate with greater autonomy, build senior stakeholder confidence and develop expertise in risk, assurance and governance at the centre of Defence.

You do not need to be a risk or assurance specialist to apply. We are looking for someone with strong analytical ability, sound judgement, clear communication skills and the confidence to work constructively with stakeholders on complex issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of Defence business areas, building effective relationships with senior risk owners, risk teams and other stakeholders to understand their priorities, risks and assurance needs.
• Provide proportionate challenge and practical advice to improve risk assessments, mitigations, assurance activity, governance arrangements and the quality of risk information.
• Analyse and quality assure risk, control, mitigation and assurance information, identifying themes, gaps, interdependencies and issues requiring escalation or senior attention.
• Use evidence and judgement to produce portfolio assessments and contribute to clear, timely and decision-focused reporting for senior governance forums.
• Support stakeholders to improve the maturity and consistency of risk management, drawing on Defence policy, wider government good practice and practical insight from across the Department.
• Contribute to the development of Defence’s Risk Centre of Excellence by supporting improvements to risk and assurance policy, guidance, tools, learning products and ways of working.

Person Specification:

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to assess complex evidence, identify key issues and draw clear, balanced conclusions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise and influential advice, briefing or reporting for senior, technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships, influence stakeholders and provide constructive challenge in a professional and proportionate way.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work across organisational boundaries and deliver high-quality outputs at pace.
• Experience of using evidence, data or management information to support decision-making, reporting, governance or problem-solving.
• An interest in developing professional knowledge in risk, assurance, governance or a related discipline.

Benefits:

• Salary of £46,040 per year
• Contribution to Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme (£13,337 per year)
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Flexible working options
• Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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SONAC (Secretary of State's Office of Net Assessment and Challenge) is a small and inclusive team at the heart of the MOD that provides independent advice to the Defence Secretary and senior MOD Officials.

SONAC uses structured methods such as net assessment, wargaming, red teaming, and strategic analysis to test and improve developing plans and strategies within the department, and to explore and develop areas MoD may be missing.

As Senior Policy Advisor, Wargaming, you will lead the delivery of SONAC wargames which address high-level strategic issues of relevance to our analytical teams, as well as other teams in MoD and x-HMG.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the design, organisation, and delivery of SONAC wargames;
• Work as required with x-Defence, x-HMG, or with Private Contractor providers to deliver and facilitate SONAC wargames;
• Work with stakeholders and SONAC colleagues to ensure SONAC wargames rigorously fulfil their analytical requirements;
• Analyse and evaluate the findings of SONAC wargames and produce written reports for MoD, x-HMG, and international audiences;
• Brief sometimes very senior audiences on the findings of SONAC's wargames;
• Support SONAC's Challenge and especially Red Teaming function;
• Support colleagues in SONAC's other analytical teams through applying your subject matter expertise;
• Collaborate with, and build effective relationships with, relevant teams x-HMG (in the wargaming, policy, strategy, intelligence, and analysis communities);
• Liaise with key stakeholders outside HMG, including selected international engagement;
• Develop credibility x-HMG and externally as a wargamer;
• Have opportunities to support or represent the team in meetings in MoD and x-HMG.

Person specification: Essential Criteria:

• Be a wargaming practitioner with experience of designing, delivering, or supporting wargames or equivalent strategic exercises;
• Be interested in international security, strategy, or defence issues;
• Be an excellent communicator with an emphasis on facilitation skills;
• Have excellent drafting skills, and an ability to analyse wargame findings and translate deep/technical detail into concise strategic-level implications;
• Be a strong collaborator, with experience of stakeholder management and building effective networks across and/or outside government;
• Have excellent information management skills with an emphasis on wargame data capture, and analysis;
• Be able to prioritise and manage a broad portfolio of work to deliver high-quality products, often at pace;
• Be willing to embrace a 'challenge mindset' through application of Subject Matter Expertise and structured analytical techniques.

Desirable Criteria:

• A postgraduate degree or professional qualification on a topic related to Wargaming or at least two years professional experience working on wargaming and exercising;
• Experience delivering wargame and equivalent exercises involving x-HMG or international stakeholders or for senior decision makers;
• Experience of employing AI tools in wargaming;
• Experience of using Structured Analytical Techniques;
• Extant Developed Vetting.

Benefits:

• Salary of £46,040 per year
• Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

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The DNO Security & Intelligence Division works to ensure the Defence Nuclear Enterprise remains secure, resilient, and assured. This role supports effective security governance and helps senior leaders understand and respond to significant security risks.

The core purpose of this role is to lead the delivery of effective security governance across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE), ensuring senior leaders have the insight, information, and forums required to address significant security risks.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the coordination and delivery of two senior security governance boards
• Shape and improve how security risk is understood and reported
• Support the development and maintenance of an aggregated view of security risks across the DNE
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders across Defence, government, and industry
• Act as a security professional and role model, championing best practice and promoting Civil Service values
• Line management of 1x HEO

Essential skills:

• Experience of coordinating governance forums or decision-making groups
• Analysing complex information and presenting recommendations
• Building relationships with senior leaders
• Identifying, assessing, or managing risks in a complex environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and prioritise competing demands
• Experience of improving processes or governance arrangements

Desirable qualifications:

• Recognised qualification in risk management (e.g., Enterprise Risk Management)
• Recognised qualification in governance or project management (e.g., APM, MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner)

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge of risk management frameworks
• Experience of developing risk registers and reporting products
• Experience of working in a security, defence, or nuclear environment
• Experience of supporting governance at senior leadership level
• Experience of collating and analysing information to develop an aggregated risk picture

The salary for this role is GBP 46,040 - 50,510 per year.

Benefits include:

• Learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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Leading a team of videographers, photographers, designers, and editors, you will ensure the content we produce – including high-quality imagery, video, and animation – remains competitive and innovative in a landscape where the visual is vital to influencing audiences at pace.

The role holder will be a confident, strategic, and creative communicator, with hands-on experience of leading a team of creatives able to drive innovation and impact at scale in an ever-evolving digital landscape. You will be a natural and confident advocate for the specialisms of your team, a resilient team player, comfortable working with and influencing senior leaders and ministers under pressure in delivering consistently first-class, creative multimedia content.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership of a team of civilian and military videographers, photographers, editors, and designers, responsible for the content output of the Ministry of Defence and wider Defence organisations.
• Working closely with the Single Services (British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force), Defence organisations, and government partners to ensure that the content we produce remains best in class, reaches priority audiences, and meets the high standards expected of the UK Armed Forces.
• Driving content innovation and technical expertise in the digital team and wider Defence Communications.
• Developing and implementing a refreshed Digital Content strategy that ensures the content of defence continues to engage and reach new audiences on a range of platforms and channels.
• Advising Ministers, senior military leaders, and other key Defence partners on best-in-class content executions.
• Maintaining close relations with key suppliers, external agencies, and creators to support digital production.
• Deputising for the Head of Digital Communications where required.

Person specification:

• Expert understanding and ability to produce and disseminate a range of multimedia across the digital and media landscape – including videography, photography, graphic and motion design.
• Significant experience of managing a team of multimedia experts, delivering engaging, high-quality, and timely content to high-profile digital and media channels.
• Extensive videography, photography, motion design, and editing experience – with an expert knowledge of the Adobe Suite or similar systems.
• Solid understanding of the workings and management of large content management systems, including legal and copyright obligations and requirements.
• A deep understanding and interest in the latest social media trends and online formats, and an ability to adapt and apply these to a team’s work at pace.

Benefits:

• Salary of £61,630 per year
• Contribution of £17,854 towards a Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
• Season ticket advance to assist with travel costs
• Free use of gym at Main Building

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This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The post holder will lead the development and operation of a Directorate-wide risk and assurance function across Conduct, Justice and Legislation.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of a Directorate-wide risk model
• Establish and maintain a proportionate assurance framework
• Provide strategic oversight of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, opportunities and controls
• Produce decision-ready reporting for senior leaders and governance boards
• Work with programme, sponsorship, policy and operational teams to create clear audit trails
• Lead assurance activity across high-priority programmes
• Coordinate risk and assurance inputs for ministerial, parliamentary, senior board or external scrutiny requirements
• Strengthen portfolio controls
• Provide leadership and direction to any supporting risk or assurance resource
• Build risk and assurance capability across the Directorate

Person specification: Essential criteria:

• Significant experience leading risk, assurance, governance, controls, PMO, programme delivery or portfolio management activity
• Experience developing and operating risk management frameworks
• Experience providing evidence-based advice to senior leaders
• Strong understanding of risk management, assurance, internal controls, delivery governance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work at pace, manage ambiguity and maintain professional judgement

Desirable criteria:

• Experience in Defence, wider public sector, regulated, statutory, assurance, audit or high-scrutiny environments
• Professional project delivery, risk, assurance, audit or governance qualification
• Experience designing assurance frameworks, portfolio controls, benefits evidence
• Experience coaching teams, embedding standards and improving risk, assurance or project delivery maturity

Benefits:

• Salary of £61,630
• Contribution of £17,854 towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Flexible working options
• Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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SONAC (Secretary of State's Office of Net Assessment and Challenge) is a small and inclusive team at the heart of the MOD that provides independent advice to the Defence Secretary and senior MOD officials.

The SONAC team deliberately combines a diverse range of experience from policy, analysis, strategy, intelligence and academia.

SONAC's Middle East senior advisor examines the strategic dynamics shaping the region and their implications for UK defence and national security.

The role provides independent analysis and challenge on issues including regional security, geopolitical competition, conflict, defence modernisation, partnerships, resilience and emerging trends across the Middle East.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead analytical projects examining strategic developments and trends in the Middle East and their implications for UK defence and security.
• Identify emerging risks, opportunities and strategic discontinuities that may affect UK interests in the Middle East and beyond.
• Produce high-quality written outputs, including assessments, briefings, reports and submissions for senior MOD and cross-government audiences.
• Work with regional policy and strategy teams to challenge and improve their work.
• Support SONAC net assessments, strategic studies, red teaming and wider analytical work through the application of regional expertise.
• Develop innovative approaches to analysing complex regional issues, including the use of structured analytical techniques and alternative perspectives.
• Brief senior military officers, civil servants and ministers on key findings and strategic implications.
• Build and maintain effective relationships across Defence, Whitehall, the intelligence community, academia and external experts.
• Develop and manage a network of external regional specialists and thought leaders to bring new perspectives into Defence.
• Support the design and delivery of conferences, expert workshops, roundtables and other engagement activities.
• Represent SONAC, where appropriate, in engagements across MOD, wider government and with selected international partners.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of the Middle East region, demonstrated through academic study, professional experience, research or policy work.
• Experience providing strategic advice or analysis, and translating complex information into clear, concise and actionable insights.
• Excellent drafting skills and the ability to produce high-quality written products for senior audiences.
• Strong understanding of international security, defence, foreign policy or geopolitical issues.
• Experience of engaging with and influencing stakeholders across a range of organisations and disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to brief and engage senior audiences confidently.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions constructively and identify alternative perspectives.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs at pace.

Benefits:

• Salary of £46,040 per year
• Contribution of £13,337 towards the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

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The successful candidate will be responsible for managing media coverage and communications relating to military policy across the UK and around the globe – from the UK's response to the war in Ukraine to the latest technology and equipment being developed for defence.

The post holder will be expected to engage with national and international media (print, broadcast and digital), working closely with ministers, military officials, policy teams and No10 Downing Street to deliver proactive and reactive communications.

The Ministry of Defence is looking for those who enjoy delivering interesting and diverse communications at pace to continue to enhance the reputation of the department, UK Government and Armed Forces; and to support global security and stability.

You will be expected to work from the Ministry of Defence's Whitehall Office for the majority of the time.

Job description

The Ministry of Defence – including the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force – are subject to intense public, parliamentary and media scrutiny.

You will be responsible for delivering successful proactive and reactive communications which protect and enhance the reputation of the department and the Armed Forces.

You will:

• Respond to enquiries from national, international, regional, consumer and digital media outlets to enhance and protect the reputation of the department, ministers and senior military officers.
• Draft press releases, statements, and briefings for senior spokespeople, Ministers and the military.
• Manage media arrangements at a range of high-profile events.
• Provide professional and comprehensive communications advice to ministers, military officers, senior officials, special advisors, and members of the Directorate of Defence Communications.

As part of the News team, you will report to a Senior Communications Officer.

You will take part in the out-of-hours duty rota, dealing with media enquiries across the full breadth of the MOD's responsibilities. This can involve occasional overnight stays in MOD accommodation, for which a generous allowance is paid.

Communication areas you will cover include, but are not restricted to:

• Military Operations overseas
• Equipment procurement and latest technology being developed in Defence
• Lawfare and wider Defence policy issues that affect how the UK Armed Forces operate.

The role will provide opportunities for travel, both within the UK and abroad and wider media minding asks from across the directorate.

Person specification

Essential criteria include:

• Excellent understanding of the media and social media landscape.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The discretion to handle classified and sensitive information pertaining to global military operations.
• Confidence and good judgement, as successful candidates will be required to become a trusted adviser to ministers and senior military officers.

Desirable criteria include:

• A proven record of working either in a media/press office environment, or in defence/international affairs.
• Experience of news management in PR or journalism.
• Experience of using social media and evaluating communications.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,720, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,927 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
• Free use of Gym at Main Building
• Season ticket advance to assist with travel costs to/from home and your permanent work location

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Job Description: The Head of Case Management provides strategic leadership and direction for the Defence Housing Service case management function, ensuring that complaints, complex cases and support for vulnerable customers are managed consistently, proportionately and effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end management of complex, sensitive and escalated housing cases, including complaints and cases requiring senior intervention.
• Set case management standards, operating procedures and quality controls to ensure cases are handled consistently, fairly and within agreed timescales.
• Provide senior oversight and direction on high-risk or high-profile cases, ensuring clear ownership, effective escalation and proportionate resolution.
• Lead the accessibility and vulnerability function, ensuring customers requiring additional support are identified and receive appropriate, coordinated assistance.
• Oversee special support arrangements for complex customer circumstances, working with internal teams, contractors and specialist partners to secure effective outcomes.
• Ensure case management approaches reflect individual needs, reasonable adjustments and the lived experience of Service personnel and families.
• Provide strategic leadership for safeguarding policy and practice across housing case management, ensuring concerns are recognised, escalated and managed appropriately.
• Lead policy and assurance for housing adaptations, supporting timely and proportionate decisions that meet customer needs and operational requirements.
• Maintain effective relationships with Defence, statutory bodies, welfare organisations and delivery partners on safeguarding and adaptations matters.
• Lead the use of complaints, casework and customer insight to identify trends, root causes, emerging risks and systemic issues, informing strategic decision-making and service priorities.
• Establish and oversee performance frameworks and reporting for case management, providing robust assurance and strategic advice to senior leaders on quality, timeliness, customer outcomes, risks and organisational performance.
• Champion continuous improvement across policy, operations and supplier delivery, ensuring lessons learned are embedded into processes, governance and service design to improve customer outcomes and prevent recurrence of issues.
• Provide visible and inclusive leadership to geographically dispersed teams, creating a high-performing culture focused on customer outcomes.
• Lead and develop managers and their teams, promoting staff engagement, wellbeing, capability development and succession planning.
• Represent the case management function across DHS, Defence and external stakeholder forums, influencing policy and operational delivery.

Person Specification:

• Significant experience leading high-performing teams through transformation, using excellent leadership, communication, influencing and decision-making skills to deliver change.
• Strong understanding of effective complaints handling, customer vulnerability, safeguarding and service recovery.
• Experience of working in housing, public service, government or a regulated environment.
• Experience of managing complex and sensitive cases, including risk assessment, escalation, governance and assurance.
• A proven ability to use customer insight and performance evidence to identify systemic issues and drive service improvement.
• A proven ability to build productive relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery partners and specialist organisations.

Benefits:

• Salary of £72,840 per year
• 25 days’ annual leave plus one day a year up to 30 days after five years, and eight bank holidays
• An extra day off to honour the sovereign’s birthday
• Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible to support your work-life balance
• Market-leading employer pension contribution of around 28.97%
• Enhanced parental leave schemes
• Recognition awards
• Access to specialist training and funded professional qualifications
• Support for progression

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We protect what matters most; our people, our assets, and our information both in the UK and around the world, so that Defence can deliver its most critical outputs safely and with confidence.

Working across Defence, our key role is to stay ahead of the threats and challenges we face.

We provide clear direction and practical guidance to support the Defence enterprise to counter threats and risks and build resilience, drawing on the priorities set out in the National Security Risk Assessment.

In addition, we lead the Security Function, working on behalf of the Defence Chief Security Officer, who serves as the Head of Profession for Security bringing expertise, consistency, and expert leadership to everything we do.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

We are growing our team in DSR and looking for a confident and experienced policy professional to take on a high impact leadership role that will sit in the centre of the directorate.

This is a demanding and career enhancing role in a small and friendly environment.

Working directly to the Chief of Staff, you will be responsible for a number of functions, including leading policy and governance across DSR and shaping how security and resilience operates across Defence.

You will be responsible for reviewing and maintaining core security policies, managing two senior security governance boards, leading assurance reporting and be a key function for managing and developing ministerial and senior leader briefings within DSR.

You will work very closely with senior leaders, contributing to high level decision making, and help drive the direction of security and resilience across Defence.

Responsibilities

• Line managing HEO SSC Governance and Policy Officer.
• Reviewing and managing security and resilience JSPs.
• Overseeing the administration function of Defence senior security and resilience governance boards.
• Acting as the DSR Branch Security Officer (BSO).
• Monitoring and evaluating organisational performance including leading: The Security and Resilience Function’s Annual Assurance Report (AAR). The departmental response to Department Security Health Check (DSHC).
• Developing and maintaining DSR submission and briefing process for the Directorate.
• Drafting SSC submissions and briefings for senior leaders and Ministers.
• Providing support to DSR SSC Central Office COS and deputise when required.

Additional Information

• This position is advertised as a full-time position.
• The role requires a minimum of 60% office attendance and is based in MOD Main Building, London.
• There may be occasions when an on-call function is applied to this role which will attract an additional allowance.
• This role requires the successful candidate to hold or willing to undertake Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance and STRAP.

Person specification

ESSENTIAL:

• A confident policy professional who has excellent experience of managing, reviewing and writing government policies.
• Experience of drafting and contributing to submissions and briefings to senior leaders and ministers.
• Exceptional leadership, communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Experience of working within a fast paced environment.
• Experience of working collaboratively across Defence and other Government Departments.

DESIRABLE:

• Experience of working closely with Ministerial and senior leader Private Office.
• Previous experience of BSO roles.
• Experience of working within highly sensitive environments.
• Experience of leading governance boards.

Behaviours

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%.

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The NAD group brings together 27,000 people focusing on delivering major programmes, projects and services that directly support and enable the military front line.

In this role you will provide a critical interface with the rest of Defence, Whitehall and Industry to enable the NAD Group to be the UK’s strategic interlocutor for defence capability preparedness.

You will lead on providing strategic organisational direction, prioritisation and stakeholder engagement, setting organisational performance, long-term reputational improvement and internal communications.

The role oversees the NAD Group’s strategy, governance, communications and policy secretariat teams.

Their key interlocutors are the Directors of Strategy and Communications in Department of State, Military Strategic Head Quarters and Defence Nuclear Enterprise – as well as the Director leads for industrial, international and innovation strategies in the NAD Group.

The NAD Group has a significant undertaking to deliver the Strategic Defence Review, Defence Industrial Strategy, Defence Investment Plan and Defence Reform at pace.

You would play an influential role in the oversight and implementation of these departmental and ministerial priorities by creating the conditions for the rest of the NAD Group to succeed – both internally and externally.

The Director Strategy, Governance & Communications operates at the heart of the NAD Group, working alongside its executive leadership – both as it designs itself for the future and operates as a single integrated organisation, within a wider Defence context.

You would work closely with the NAD Chief of Staff who is responsible for the day-to-day coherence of strategic activity.

Responsibilities:

• Using wider context of global threats, the defence enterprise and departmental and Ministerial direction to set strategy, communications, and strategic engagements across Defence.
• Defining the NAD Group’s vision, high-level change agenda and strategic priorities, while aligning these to departmental strategy and the MOD’s Strategic Cycles, particularly the Strategic Planning Cycle.
• Provide leadership of the organisation’s governance framework, ensuring robust corporate oversight, effective assurance, and high-quality decision-making that enables the delivery of strategic objectives.
• Setting the strategic performance framework for the NAD Group, which measures progress against the outcomes, benefits and priorities set out in its strategy and plan.
• Oversee the NAD Group’s Strategic Centre, bringing together strategy, communications, governance, policy secretariat and performance reporting from across the entire 27,000-strong NAD Group to support decision-making and strategic engagements across Defence.
• Lead implementation and reporting of Strategic Defence Review recommendation.
• Enable the delivery of effective communications, in support of the NAD Group, their partnerships, and into wider cross-Defence campaigns, and ensure effective communications to meet business needs through the effective utilisation of communication and policy professionals.
• Support DG Corporate in the effective design, mobilisation and long-term implementation of the Strategy Directorate work in line with Defence Reform – and by optimising the interfaces with wider-Defence at Director level.
• Represent the NAD Group and DG executive team at external strategic events, to set out the NAD Group vision and future direction for partners in industry, international and innovation communities.

Person specification:

• Proven ability to translate strategic intent, policy development, and innovative thinking into tangible delivery outcomes, ensuring effective implementation at pace while adapting to shifting priorities, complex organisational change and leading teams to embrace new ways of working.
• Proven ability to quickly establish credibility and trusted relationships with senior stakeholders up to ministerial level (or equivalent), while ensuring ministerial and senior priorities are effectively implemented and providing robust evidence-based advice that leverages a strong understanding of the wider political landscape.
• Proven ability to translate insights and analysis from a complex operating environment, and the implications of government and departmental direction, into strategic priorities and tangible action.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a business area responsible for the strategic delivery of corporate services, including at least one of these policy areas: governance, communications and policy secretariat.
• Demonstrable experience of translating strategic policy and organisational vision into executable delivery plans, leading complex programmes from concept through implementation to achieve measurable outcomes in a dynamic and politically sensitive environment.​

Benefits:

• Salary of £135,000 - £150,000 per year
• Ministry of Defence contributes £39,109 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

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The successful candidate will work closely with the Deputy Head of Strategy, cross-cutting stakeholders and experts, to translate strategic priorities into clear, deliverable outputs. They will bring together evidence, insight and a range of perspectives, to tackle complex cross-cutting strategy challenges, whilst enhancing business capabilities and driving performance.

Responsibilities:

• Support delivery of key DIO strategies, such as the Corporate Strategy, to provide a clear vision, evidence-based objectives and deliverable outputs for the organisation.
• Bring together stakeholder perspectives, to address gaps and opportunities to support clear decision making, against Strategy deliverables.
• Lead monitoring and reporting against The Defence Housing Strategy recommendations, identifying key risks and areas for improvement.
• Lead and line-manage a small Strategy team, providing guidance and mentorship as required, to ensure alignment with strategy development and delivery.
• Lead high-profile, cross-cutting projects on behalf of senior leaders, to help drive forward delivery of Defence Housing Strategy recommendations and wider organisational priorities.
• Provide clear strategic outputs that influence tangible operational and policy change, putting Service Personnel and their families at the heart of areas for improvement.
• Ensure recommendations from strategic projects have clear owners and implementation arrangements to drive successful delivery; establishing project structures, plans and governance to maintain momentum, managing risk and dependencies to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including internal DIO teams, wider MOD colleagues, external partners and serving personnel/families and their representatives.

Person specification:

• Demonstrable experience of strategic thinking, strategy development and delivery.
• Strong leadership capabilities, able to work with and bring together a wide range of individuals and teams to work on shared objectives.
• Experience of project and/or programme management, including structure, governance and risk management.
• Line management experience, including building capability and developing high performing teams.
• Able to demonstrate ability to analyse evidence, evaluate options and make strategic recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to build strong working relationships, to influence and deliver objectives.

Benefits:

• Salary of £61,630 per year
• Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 25 days paid annual leave rising to 30 days upon completion of five years' service
• Ability to roll up to 10 days annual leave per year
• In addition to eight public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday
• Parental and Adoption Leave
• Discounts on a range of services within and external to the civil service

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The Global Strategy Programme (GSP) is an 11-month course that focuses on national, regional, and global stability, security, and prosperity at the grand strategic level. The course aims to equip graduates with a deeper understanding of the international strategic context, skills in strategic analysis and strategy formulation, and the ability to work across national, cultural, and ideological boundaries.

As a Course Design & Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for designing, delivering, and programming elements of the GSP across an academic year. Your portfolio will include planning major course components such as seminars, lectures, strategy case studies, and study visits. You will work closely with external organisations, including NGOs, private sector companies, military units, and embassies, to facilitate the delivery of world-renowned strategy education.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading on the detailed design, delivery, and programming of course elements
• Conducting independent research and analysis to identify new intellectual approaches and build partnerships
• Drafting lecture specifications and arranging external expert speakers
• Overseeing course elements and administering logistics for day-to-day running of the course
• Assessing feedback from students and staff to inform future planning
• Planning, project managing, and delivering educational study tours

The salary for this position is GBP 46,040 per year.

The Ministry of Defence offers a range of benefits, including a Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%, 25 days' paid annual leave, and flexible working options.

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The post holder will translate strategic objectives, operational requirements and technology opportunities into coherent cloud architecture principles, target states and transition roadmaps. They will define architectural standards and reusable patterns, guide workload placement and technology investment decisions, and assure cloud proposals against Defence architecture, cyber-security, interoperability, resilience and value-for-money requirements.

Working with Defence Digital & Data colleagues, cyber and security specialists, data and solution architects, service owners, delivery teams, industry and wider government partners, the role will build agreement around architectural decisions and ensure cloud adoption remains coherent across organisational and security boundaries.

This is a senior architecture role requiring strong enterprise architecture capability, practical cloud knowledge, sound judgement and the ability to communicate complex decisions to technical and non-technical audiences. Travel to DI and other HMG sites within the UK will be required. A small amount of international travel may be required.

Main Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain the Defence Intelligence enterprise cloud architecture vision, strategy, principles and roadmap, aligned with Defence and Government direction.
• Develop and maintain business cases, current-state, target-state and transition architectures for cloud capabilities across relevant security classifications.
• Lead problem definition, architecture option analysis and trade-off assessments, balancing operational outcomes, security, interoperability, resilience, scalability, sustainability, affordability and value for money.
• Assure designs and investment proposals against enterprise architecture, cyber-security, data, service and technology requirements.
• Represent Defence Intelligence at architecture boards, design authorities and cross-Defence governance forums, escalating material risks and resolving architectural conflicts.
• Promote reuse, interoperability and standardisation while identifying opportunities to simplify the estate, retire duplication and reduce technical debt.
• Undertake horizon scanning and assess emerging cloud technologies, supplier developments and architectural patterns for their relevance to Defence Intelligence.
• Communicate complex architectural issues and recommendations clearly to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Person specification:

We are looking for an experienced enterprise architect who can operate confidently across organisational, professional and security boundaries. You will be comfortable shaping strategy in a complex environment where requirements may be unclear, technology choices involve significant trade-offs, and progress depends on the quality of your judgement, evidence and influence.

Essential criteria:

• Significant experience operating as an enterprise, domain or senior solution architect in a large, complex or federated digital environment.
• Experience translating organisational strategy and operational needs into architecture principles, target states, transition roadmaps and implementable change.
• Demonstrable experience architecting for the whole context, balancing business outcomes, user needs, security, data, technology, service, commercial, affordability and sustainability considerations.
• Experience leading complex problem definition, option analysis and architectural decision-making, with clear rationale and traceability.
• Experience assuring strategies, designs or investment proposals against enterprise architecture and managing architectural risks, exceptions or technical debt.
• Strong architecture communication skills, including the ability to explain complex decisions and trade-offs to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience influencing across organisational boundaries and building consensus around strategic architecture direction.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience working in Defence, Intelligence, National Security or another highly regulated or security-conscious environment.
• Experience designing or assuring services across multiple security classifications or high-assurance environments.
• Knowledge of cloud security, identity, networking, resilience, interoperability and service operating models.
• Understanding of platform engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, FinOps and technology lifecycle management.
• A relevant cloud architecture qualification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent.

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £61,630, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,854 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We offer a range of excellent benefits including but not limited to the following:

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
• Leave entitlement - 25 day annual leave allowance per year increasing by 1 day per year (maximum 30 days per year). In addition, 8 statutory Bank Holidays and 1 privilege day per year.

We also offer an excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.

• Special Paid Leave to volunteer up to 6 days a year
• London site has a Gym and onsite shop.

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The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Leading the Air M&C team and providing professional leadership of the Communications function across Air Command
• Representing Air M&C in senior relationships within RAF and externally with suppliers, MOD, Government Communications Service and professional bodies
• Directing and delivering the RAF Communications Strategy and tracking the impact of our outputs against objectives
• Providing communications advice to the Air and Space Executive Committee
• Overseeing a complex operating model including internal and external communications, high profile content production, and RAF ceremonial activities
• Managing a budget of c£4m and providing financial and resourcing modelling and forecasting

The ideal candidate will have:

• Extensive experience of developing and delivering impactful communications strategies within complex organisations
• Proven ability to advise and influence senior stakeholders and build trusted relationships
• Demonstrable experience of leading and developing high-performing multidisciplinary teams
• Strong strategic thinking and communications judgement, with the ability to align communications activity to organisational priorities
• Resilience and adaptability, with experience of leading teams through change and uncertainty

In return for your hard work, we offer a salary of £95,000 per year, a Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%, and a range of benefits including learning and development opportunities, flexible working options, and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.

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The Clyde Transformation Director will lead the client-side delivery system for the Clyde Transformation Programme (CTP), connecting strategy, investment, governance, assurance and execution across MOD, the Royal Navy, delivery partners and regulators.

His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde (HM Naval Base Clyde) is a nationally critical asset operating in a highly regulated, high-security environment. CTP is a multi-decade, multi-billion pound, enterprise-scale programme that must deliver major infrastructure and organisational change while sustaining safe, secure, continuous operations.

The Clyde Transformation Director is the senior client-side delivery leader for the transformation of HM Naval Base Clyde, accountable for designing, establishing and leading the Client Delivery Model to enable effective, integrated and assured delivery of the programme - translating strategic intent and investment decisions into credible plans, disciplined execution, robust assurance and sustained client capability.

Responsibilities:

• Portfolio integration and delivery leadership (client-side)
• Integrate delivery organisations across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise and wider MOD to bring the six programmes together as a single coherent delivery system.
• Translate SRO-approved objectives into sequenced delivery strategies, credible milestones and dependency-managed roadmaps.
• Drive delivery performance across safety, schedule, cost, quality and operational readiness, escalating decisions and trade-offs to the SRO and Sponsor Board with clear options and evidence.

• Major infrastructure and operational interface management​​
• Lead on an organisational-wide transformation and change programme across an operational military site inclusive of major infrastructure (e.g. nuclear facilities, waterfront/marine, utilities, accommodation, security and enabling works).
• Maintain a single integrated masterplan that manages site access, operational continuity, safety‑case constraints, enabling works and commissioning.
• Embed whole‑life value, maintainability and operational resilience into investment and design decisions.

• Nuclear safety, security and regulatory alignment (client role)​​
• Demonstrate visible leadership of nuclear safety culture and high‑consequence risk management across the delivery enterprise.
• Assure alignment of plans and delivery execution to regulatory expectations, licence conditions, safety cases and configuration control.
• Lead engagement with regulators and assurance bodies in the context of transformation and delivery and strengthen the evidence quality required for governance and approvals.

• Commercial strategy implementation and partner integration​​
• Advise, and where appropriate implement, the agreed commercial and delivery model (alliances/frameworks/enterprise arrangements as applicable).
• Integrate delivery partners and suppliers into a single operating system with clear performance expectations, incentives, data transparency and escalation routes.
• Strengthen supply chain resilience (capacity, capability, productivity, nuclear‑qualified resources, long‑lead items).

• Controls, data transparency and performance management​​
• Establish a “single source of truth” for portfolio reporting and decision support (schedule, cost, risk, benefits and delivery confidence).
• Set and enforce rigorous disciplines: baseline integrity; change control; risk/opportunity; early warning; performance reviews.
• Prepare for independent assurance activity and embed improvements so that findings are addressed and sustained.

• Organisation, workforce and change leadership​​
• Build, lead and coordinate multiple delivery organisations across the MoD, integrating military, civil service and embedded partner capabilities to operate cohesively.
• Define, drive and deliver a client capability roadmap that supports talent pipelines, retention, succession planning, training and culture across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Lead enterprise-wide change initiatives to harmonise ways of working, governance and behaviours, ensuring sustained delivery capability over decades within a complex, multi-organisation environment.

• Stakeholder leadership and communication​​
• Represent the client as the senior delivery leader with senior military leadership, MOD functions, regulators, delivery partners, local authorities and communities.
• Handle sensitive issues (disruption, workforce pressures, environment, reputation) with professionalism and transparency.
• Sustain confidence and alignment through a clear narrative and evidence‑based progress reporting.

Person Specification:

• Degree or equivalent experience in engineering, infrastructure, nuclear, programme delivery or a related discipline.
• Enterprise-scale programme leadership: a track record leading interdependent, multi-£bn programme across phases and funding cycles, with complex interfaces and delivery risk gained in the public or private sector (or in a role with equivalent commercial accountability, delivery pace and supplier management).
• Candidates with public sector backgrounds are welcome and all candidates should demonstrate substantial experience working with (or within) private-sector delivery organisations, including commercial governance, contractual mechanisms and performance management.
• Capable client / owner model design: experience designing and running client-side delivery organisations (governance, decision rights, controls, integration and assurance), ideally alongside complex supplier landscapes.
• Regulated major infrastructure delivery: senior delivery leadership in safety-critical and/or high-security environments, delivering change while sustaining operations.
• Commercial and partner integration: shaping and implementing long-term commercial/delivery models and integrating partners and supply chain performance at scale.

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £175,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £50,697 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

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This role offers substantial opportunities for development as a Policy Professional, together with Nuclear Enterprise know-how and, for the right candidate, delivery and operational responsibility.

The role supports policy development and provides advice, contributing to growing emergency resilience across the enterprise and is the focal point for coordinating HQ emergency call-out arrangements.

Key responsibilities include:

• becoming a super user of the web-based Radiation Response Emergency Management System (RREMS)
• maintaining currency of the Headquarters Defence Nuclear Emergency Organisation (HQ DNEO) Nuclear Emergency Alerting arrangements
• providing support to DNO-EP Pol Assistant Head and DNO-EP Pol1
• providing support to DNO-EP Pol Ops

This role has the potential to join the on-call rota, attracting an allowance, subject to training and satisfactory demonstration of capability.

The post attracts the NSQEP Recruitment Retention Allowance of up to £6,000 per annum.

Benefits include:

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days upon completion of 5 years' service
• On-site Gym
• Cycle Loan (Advance on Salary)
• Thank You Scheme
• Defence Sports & Recreational Association (DSRA)
• Defence Discount Service
• On-site Nursery (site dependent)

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