UK Ministry of Defence
Navy Command, Dependency and Interface Manager
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HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, PL2 2BG
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 Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe and a powerhouse of Royal Navy capability. It is home to amphibious ships, survey squadrons, submarines, and two-thirds of the frigate force. With its unique nuclear refitting facility, Devonport ensures the Fleet remains ready to support operations worldwide.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
Are you looking for an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of critical Defence infrastructure? We are seeking a Dependency & Interface Manager to support the Devonport Major Infrastructure Portfolio, a complex and high-profile programme delivering critical infrastructure for Defence. In this role, you will help develop, maintain and assure integrated plans, schedules and interface arrangements across a wide range of delivery activity. Working closely with project, programme and portfolio teams, as well as senior stakeholders, HMNB Devonport, Babcock, suppliers and governance forums, you will help identify key milestones, dependencies, assumptions, sequencing and responsibilities. You will play an important part in supporting effective stakeholder engagement, improving clarity across interfaces, providing planning analysis and reporting, and helping senior leaders make informed decisions by identifying risks, issues, interdependencies and stakeholder impacts across the portfolio.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Develop, maintain and assure integrated portfolio and project plans, schedules, milestones, interfaces and critical path information, ensuring planning assumptions, sequencing, dependencies and key stakeholder touchpoints are captured and kept up to date.
- Coordinate planning inputs from project, programme and functional teams across the Devonport Major Infrastructure Portfolio, engaging stakeholders to clarify responsibilities, interfaces and decision points, and supporting the development and maintenance of proportionate RACI arrangements where required.
- Monitor delivery performance against agreed baselines, analyse schedule variance, slippage, risks, issues, interfaces and interdependencies, assess stakeholder impacts, and escalate material concerns through appropriate governance routes.
- Produce clear management information, dashboards, progress updates and governance reporting to support boards, senior leaders and wider stakeholders with accurate, timely and meaningful planning and interface insight.
- Support change control, assurance activity and continuous improvement in planning and interface management practice, including maintaining planning standards, data quality, stakeholder engagement and lessons identified across portfolio stakeholders.
Person Specification
To be successful with your application, you'll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:
- Developing, maintaining or assuring project, programme or portfolio plans and schedules within a complex delivery environment.
- Identifying and managing milestones, dependencies, interfaces, assumptions and constraints to support effective delivery planning.
- Working with a broad stakeholder network, including senior leaders, project teams, functional specialists, suppliers or site stakeholders, to coordinate delivery activity and maintain effective working relationships.
- Supporting or applying RACI principles, role clarity, decision points or interface management arrangements to improve collaboration and delivery confidence.
- Monitoring progress against agreed baselines, analysing schedule performance and supporting the management of risks, issues, change and stakeholder impacts.
- Producing planning outputs, management information or governance reporting for senior stakeholders, boards or decision makers, and of supporting continuous improvement in planning processes, data quality, reporting or ways of working.
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The below criteria are desirable only. These will not be assessed throughout the recruitment process, but will be used in the event of tied scores between candidate
- Working in infrastructure, nuclear, maritime, defence or other complex major project environments.
- Experience of stakeholder mapping, interface coordination or supporting formal governance and reporting arrangements in a portfolio or programme environment.
- Experience of using planning and reporting tools to maintain schedules, track progress and present performance information.
- Experience of supporting integrated delivery across mixed civilian, military, operational and contractor teams.
- A recognised project delivery, planning or scheduling qualification, or demonstrable equivalent practical experience.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Seeing the Big Picture
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Stakeholder engagement and communications – Working
- Assurance, dependencies and interfaces - Working
- Schedule Management – working.
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. 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)
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.
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.
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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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Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
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.
At Sift, you will be assessed against the following;
- Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and qualification details.
- Candidates will be required to provide a personal statement. This should be a maximum of 500 words that sets out your motivation for applying and shows how your skills and experience meet the essential requirements for the role.
And The Following Behaviour:
- Seeing the Big Picture
At Interview, you will be assessed against the following success profiles:
Behaviours:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
Technical:
- Stakeholder engagement and communications – Working
- Assurance, dependencies and interfaces - Working
- Schedule Management – working
The Civil Service
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.
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