The Concepts Plans Officer is a key part of the small Concepts Team. The team is dedicated to horizon scanning and delivering the Army’s aiming mark for how it will operate in the future, the capability priorities it will need to succeed and the types of formations that will see greatest success. Excitingly, the role has regular interaction with allies and partners across the world including NATO and the US.
Key responsibilities:
Be central to all outputs - read and digest considerable amounts of information and detail, then translate into activity or be prepared to direct external supporting agencies in delivery on the Army’s behalf.
Shape, plan and deliver critical activity in support of major Concept research and analysis activity including wargames, conferences and symposium.
Negotiate (with Think-Tank, Scientific and Industry partners) contract awards and renewals; track activity against agreed deliverables, manage taskings and act as secretary for quarterly update meetings with each contracted think-tank/partner.
Plan future financial requirements and maintain oversight of current Concepts expenditure and reporting against allocated funding lines.
It will include negotiation and management of contracts with external agencies, financing of events and activities. Post-event the blending and meshing of opinions, and translation into outputs is equally important to driving subsequent activity, informing force design and aiding development of future capability.
Analyse Concept’s commissioned work and activity outputs to maintain Concept team entries into the Army Futures Master Question List (the way the Army tracks the questions it might need answering in order to drive future decisions) and Science and Technology Problem Book (the method used to track capability problems that need answering – normally by either science or industry partners).
Track and synchronise team activity/resource against output demands, highlighting area of risk where required.
Capture and storage of key research material and input to the Army Research Reports Repository and Concepts SharePoint site thereby aiding future research.
Be prepared to support other research and analysis or Conceptual activity required of the Concepts team.
Additional Information
This is a reserved role as the management aspect of the role will mean contact with information such as submissions which have REL UK and FVEY handling caveats.
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