UK Ministry of Defence
Navy Command - Assistant Head of Capability Integration and Change
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HMNB Clyde, Faslane, G84 8HL
Job Summary
At Navy Command, we lead, support, and sustain the Royal Navy across every theatre of operations. We coordinate the people, platforms, and missions that keep the Fleet ready for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Together, we uphold centuries of naval tradition while driving innovation that ensures the Royal Navy’s readiness to protect our nation and secure our future.
As the authority for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine capability, the Submarine Directorate oversees one of the most complex and critical elements of UK defence. Covering everything from in‑service management to long‑term fleet modernisation, the directorate ensures the Submarine Flotilla remains safe, reliable, and ready to meet national security requirements.
You'll be based at HMNB Clyde, home to the UK Submarine Service. It sustains the nation’s continuous at-sea deterrent and supports the Royal Navy’s fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. As a centre of excellence for submarine operations, Clyde plays a critical role in national security and global stability.
This position is a Reserved Post within the Civil Service, for which only sole UK nationals are eligible. Under the Civil Service Nationality Rules, UK nationals include British citizens, British subjects with the right of abode in the United Kingdom, and British Overseas Territories citizens.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
Are you ready to lead the integration and delivery of complex change activity within a live operational environment?
This is a unique opportunity to operate at the centre of Capability Integration and Change at HMNB Clyde, coordinating and aligning activity across multiple programmes, functions and stakeholders to support safe and effective delivery. Working at the intersection of strategic intent and operational reality, you will identify and manage dependencies, risks and impacts, ensuring that change is integrated in a structured and coherent way.
With a strong focus on the people side of change, you will support teams and stakeholders to prepare for, adopt and embed change effectively. You will play a key role in supporting governance and decision-making by providing clear, evidence-based reporting and ensuring that leadership has visibility of priorities, risks and progress.
What You Will Do:
- Lead Integration and Delivery: Lead and coordinate capability integration and change activity within a defined functional area, ensuring alignment with HMNB Clyde priorities
- Manage Dependencies, Risks and Impacts: Identify, assess and actively manage dependencies, risks and impacts across programmes, infrastructure, workforce and operational activity, ensuring these are visible and effectively managed.
- Support Governance and Decision-Making: Provide clear, evidence-based reporting, analysis and advice to governance forums, enabling effective prioritisation, escalation and decision-making.
- Develop Integrated Planning: Contribute to the development and maintenance of integrated plans, ensuring visibility of activity, sequencing, interdependencies and prioritisation across the enterprise.
- Enable Change and Readiness: Support teams and stakeholders to prepare for, adopt and embed change effectively, ensuring organisational readiness and sustained delivery.
- Collaborate Across the Enterprise: Engage and collaborate with stakeholders across HMNB Clyde, Navy Command and external partners, ensuring alignment, shared understanding and effective delivery of integrated change
Person specification
To be successful with your application, you must show you meet the following essential criteria:
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- Proven experience of delivering integration and change activity within complex, multi-stakeholder environments, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and operational requirements.
- Experience of identifying, assessing and managing dependencies, risks and impacts across programmes, infrastructure, workforce or operational activity.
- Demonstrated ability to support governance and decision-making processes by providing clear, structured reporting, analysis and recommendations.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries, engaging and influencing stakeholders to enable alignment, collaboration and delivery of integrated outcomes.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly to a range of stakeholders.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
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 (opens in a new window).
- 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
- Market-leading employer pension contribution of 28.97%
- Personal & professional development
- Alternative working patterns for many roles
- Access to a confidential, professional support service
- Discount schemes
- Bicycle / season-ticket loans
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Special paid leave to volunteer (up to 6 days a year)
- Assisted travel scheme
In Navy Command we believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference and you’ll be supported through your learning journey and your career. This can include working towards membership of a professional body and/or undertaking an apprenticeship as part of your role.
You’ll have access to a variety of qualifications pathways ranging from GCSE/A-Level equivalent all the way up to master’s degree, depending on your role, your previous skills and your experience. Some qualifications even include “on-the-job” training which means minimal disruption to your working day but maximum impact.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and working from home as part of a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement. All office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to site capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD workplace, will also count towards this level of office attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this and other flexible working arrangements 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/.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
As part of Defence Reform, Navy Command continues to review and evolve its Target Operating Model to support more agile ways of working. In this context, the role and responsibilities of this role may develop over time to reflect changing business priorities and opportunities.
Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and qualification details.
Personal Statement:
Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. ( 500 word count)
At sift, candidates will be assessed against their CV and Statement of suitability.
Behaviours:
At interview, candidates will be assessed against the following:
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Making effective decisions
Experience:
Your experience of leading and delivering capability integration and change within complex environments
Candidates will be issued with a leadership scenario on the day. Candidates will have 40 minutes to read and evaluate the scenario, followed by a 5-minute presentation and a 5-minute discussion at the start of the interview.
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.
There may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all DCS candidates that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as a high volume of applications, seasonal demand, or peak periods
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