Defence Digital Associate Product Manager
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* Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 23rd June 2025
* Reference number: 404804
Job summary
Defence Digital ensures our Armed Forces remain among the most technologically advanced in the world. We do this by putting innovative and effective technology into the hands of over 200,000 users, from the boardroom to the front line.
We lead on cutting-edge data science, automation, and cyber security at scale. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield by leading humanitarian efforts and driving digital innovation that impacts lives across the globe.
Defence Digital forms part of Strategic Command which manages the MOD’s joint capabilities for the Army, RAF, and Royal Navy.
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Join a dynamic team, where you'll help shape and deliver our Business Rigour Services. From configuring policies and processes to maintaining essential templates, you'll play a key role in driving consistent, meaningful change across the organisation.
Collaborating with experts across the Portfolio Team, you'll champion a risk-based approach to assess and strengthen Business Rigour maturity across our delivery areas, ensuring we stay sharp, aligned, and effective.
You'll also be instrumental in managing corporate tools and coordinating our continuous improvement backlog, helping to prioritise and allocate work that keeps us evolving. This includes updating key portfolio policies and standards to ensure they stay relevant and support the modern delivery methods used across Defence Digital.
In this role you will:
* Support the Business Rigour Service Owner with ensuring the teams compliance, with Agile ceremonies and reporting, including the planning of pre-planning and end of sprint reporting.
* Work across organisational boundaries, with guidance and mentorship, to support agenda management and act as secretariat for Defence Digital’s working groups.
* Manage a busy shared mailbox, prioritising workload to ensure service level agreements are consistently met.
* Advise users on Defence Digital’s processes and working practices, delivering support through email and one-to-one interactions.
* Support the administration of corporate tools and the creation of user accounts.
* On-boarding of personnel onto DDPT led courses.
Your role emphasises the importance of addressing the right challenges in the most effective manner, and ensuring that the products produced, are not only comprehensible but also highly valued by users.
For further information on the role and duties of an Associate Product Manager, please refer to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework: Product manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Person specification
We seek a driven, enthusiastic, and self-assured individual with outstanding communication abilities, a positive outlook, and has a proactive approach to learning. The ideal candidate will exhibit a growth-oriented mindset, showing a keen interest in Agile methodologies and personal development.
Working alongside diverse teams, you will collaborate to integrate their perspectives, user requirements, and business objectives in defining the problem at hand. The perfect candidate will showcase a practical focus on precision, possessing the flexibility to adjust as needed, and will thrive in a dynamic and intricate work setting.
When submitting your CV, highlight your relevant career experience. In addition, refer to the “Things You Need to Know” section and provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words) demonstrating the following essential criteria:
* Please explain your awareness and understanding of Agile practices.
* Describe your experience in building, managing, and influencing stakeholder relationships to achieve successful outcomes.
Please note that this post is a job share, working 22.5 hours per week over 3 days. However, working patterns are negotiable and can be discussed at interview.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Communicating and Influencing
* Working Together
* Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* User Focus
Alongside your salary of £29,580, Ministry of Defence contributes £8,569 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
* An environment with flexible working options
* A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
* 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
* Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year
* In addition to 8 public holidays per year you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday
* Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
* Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
* Enhanced parental and adoption leave
* Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being
* Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club and Gyms
* Please see Benefits link for more info: Civilian Discover My Benefits (mod.gov.uk)
* 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.
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Defence Digital. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.
Professional Framework Statement
Defence Digital operates an organisation model in which every individual belongs to a Government Profession. The successful applicant will be posted into one of the defined Government Professions on Standard Terms of Reference for the grade. Defence Digital reserves the right to move individuals between roles, within their allocated profession, to meet the needs of the business and in support of agile resourcing. Within Defence Digital each profession is led by a Professional Head of Community who will lead professional development and support the Continuous Professional Development path for their group.
Learning & Development
In Defence Digital we have a strong learning and development ethos, supporting you to fulfil your potential by providing:
* Learning and development tailored to your role
* Professional and Personal Development of skills
* Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by MOD
* Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by MOD
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
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