Navy AI Transformation Co-ordinator

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

Location

NCHQ, Whale Island, Portsmouth, PO2 8BY

About the job

Job summary

The Develop Directorate is a high profile, exciting and fast paced area that is responsible for delivering an adaptable military capability and creating a first-class project control and management functions across a diverse and complex military capability portfolio to support our operational commitments. It leads the development of the Royal Navys future warfighting capability and acts as the platform to deliver a modern, global and ready Royal Navy. It acts as the thought leaders for the Royal Navy (RN), leading the development of the RNs future warfighting capability and acting as the Design Authority for RN capabilities of the future to achieve the optimum mix of present and future warfighting technologies for a modern, global and ready RN.

The successful candidate will be working in a fast paced, agile environment and will need to have a flexible approach to enable rapid delivery to respond to priorities as they emerge. This role offers opportunities for the right person to make a real difference to the front line of the RN.

The Royal Navy has committed to become a digitised and data-driven organisation by 2025. By doing so the Royal Navy will lead and champion excellence in digital development, keeping pace with and, where necessary, leading our allies.Anew approach is required to transform the Royal Navy and improve how it delivers its objectives and optimises the use of digital technology to support operational requirements.This role will help deliver this transformation.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

This new role sitswithin the Navy AI Cell under Director Develop.The Navy AI Cell has been formed to accelerate AI adoption throughout the Navy. While this role principally focuses on the maritime customer, our approach must be coherent with centrally-driven AI initiatives and those being developed in the other Front Line Commands and functional areas across Defence.

The Digital C5ISR team is leading on AI capability development for the Navy. As the Navy Artificial Intelligence Transformation Coordinator, you will direct, sponsor and cohere various strands of AI capability development, from experimentation to acquisition. You will lead on developing the AI roadmap and delivering its enabling objectives. You will be directly accountable to the Head Navy AI Cell.

Responsibilities

• Plan for effective development of AI through coordination and development of the required digital enablers. Make the case for the required resources and track the progression of these enablers.
• Refine the Navy assurance model to ensure that delivery of AI is adopted at pace, whilst remaining ambitious, safe and responsible. Working with central organisations and initiatives including but not limited to the Defence AI Centre (DAIC) and the Defence AI and Autonomy Unit (DAU) to align the RN approach.
• Cohere and track AI development across the Navy through a Community of Interest forum and regular engagement with stakeholders.
• Contribute to various management groups to ensure the inclusion and prioritisation of the key enabling capabilities for AI exploitation at scale. Engage with internal stakeholders as required.
• Support and contribute to required business processes, administration and risk management required to support routine reporting within the HQ and Research, Development and Experimentation bids.
• Engage with industry partners to learn about the latest AI developments and plan for how the Navy could embrace and deploy these efficiently.
• Deputise for Hd Navy AI Cell as required.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• As per delegations, liaise with all appropriate Service, MoD, government, civilian and international authorities necessary to execute primary responsibilities.

Person specification

Essential:

• Ability to seek and analyse information to inform decisions based on the best available evidence.
• Self-motivated to act to achieve a goal. You are confident using your own initiative to take forward actions.
• The ability to take charge of situations, people and decisions. You communicate confidently and give direction.
• Ability to proactively create and maintain positive, professional and trusting working relationships with a wide range of people within and outside the organisation. You identify connections and reach out to bring people together.
• Ability to look at the big picture and consider the wider factors and long term implications of decisions.
• Ability to communicate between the technical and non-technical. You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences. You can advocate on behalf of a team and communicate what it does, to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully respond to challenges.

Desirable:

• Digital : You will have previous exposure to or have worked in a digital area and have awareness of the enabling functions and processes required to make a digital project successful.
• Agile and Lean practices: You can lead on a range of Agile and Lean tools and techniques. You can provide coaching on these tools and techniques in and outside of your team. You can represent and be an advocate for these tools and techniques. You can innovate and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest trends. You can establish a feedback loop for teams. You can take responsibility for the translation and measurement of value (what you put in and what you will get out) and ensure this relates to practical objectives and the user needs.
• Financial management: You can support effective budget management within the constraints of a project. You can monitor projected budgets against expenditure.
• Life cycle perspective: You can understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run them. You can maintain a product or process through the delivery phases, into live and then into retirement. You can lead a team through the different phases of the product delivery life cycle. You can maintain and iterate a product over time to continuously meet user needs. You can understand incident management and service support to ensure that products are built effectively.
• Planning: You can take a consistent and ongoing approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and roadmapping. You can communicate plans, planning assumptions and progress to a range of stakeholders. You can maintain the cadence of delivery and manage the relationships between different people within and across teams.
• Maintaining delivery momentum: You can solve issues and unblock problems. You can lead a team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments. You can engage in elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks. You can manage various dependencies across teams, departments and government as a whole.
• Data Science: You have an awareness of the data science area. You will have knowledge of the key digital enablers required to deliver a data science project.

Behaviours

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes 12,480 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

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

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

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

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

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

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Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

Candidates will be required to complete a Statement of Suitability of no more than 500 words. Please provide experience relevant to the role.

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

At sift and interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Seeing the Big Picture
  
• Changing and Improving
  
• Working Together
  
• Communicating and Influencing
  
• Delivering at Pace

Application online, sift of application & interview if successful through sift.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is SC . Applicants are to be aware this post may upgrade to Developed Vetting therefore will have to be prepared to undergo DV clearance.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Location: Portsmouth, GB

Posted Date: 9/27/2024