# Assistant Head, Strategy Development

**Company**: Ministry of Defence
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 61,630 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Government

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## Description

We are seeking an Assistant Head, Strategy Development to join the Defence Housing Service (DHS), a new organisation being created through the Armed Forces Bill to deliver a step-change in housing for the UK's Armed Forces and their families.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Deputy Head of Strategy, cross-cutting stakeholders and experts, to translate strategic priorities into clear, deliverable outputs. They will bring together evidence, insight and a range of perspectives, to tackle complex cross-cutting strategy challenges, whilst enhancing business capabilities and driving performance.

Responsibilities:

- Support delivery of key DIO strategies, such as the Corporate Strategy, to provide a clear vision, evidence-based objectives and deliverable outputs for the organisation.

- Bring together stakeholder perspectives, to address gaps and opportunities to support clear decision making, against Strategy deliverables.

- Lead monitoring and reporting against The Defence Housing Strategy recommendations, identifying key risks and areas for improvement.

- Lead and line-manage a small Strategy team, providing guidance and mentorship as required, to ensure alignment with strategy development and delivery.

- Lead high-profile, cross-cutting projects on behalf of senior leaders, to help drive forward delivery of Defence Housing Strategy recommendations and wider organisational priorities.

- Provide clear strategic outputs that influence tangible operational and policy change, putting Service Personnel and their families at the heart of areas for improvement.

- Ensure recommendations from strategic projects have clear owners and implementation arrangements to drive successful delivery; establishing project structures, plans and governance to maintain momentum, managing risk and dependencies to deliver high-quality outcomes.

- Build and maintain strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including internal DIO teams, wider MOD colleagues, external partners and serving personnel/families and their representatives.

Person specification:

- Demonstrable experience of strategic thinking, strategy development and delivery.

- Strong leadership capabilities, able to work with and bring together a wide range of individuals and teams to work on shared objectives.

- Experience of project and/or programme management, including structure, governance and risk management.

- Line management experience, including building capability and developing high performing teams.

- Able to demonstrate ability to analyse evidence, evaluate options and make strategic recommendations.

- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to build strong working relationships, to influence and deliver objectives.

Benefits:

- Salary of £61,630 per year

- Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme

- 25 days paid annual leave rising to 30 days upon completion of five years' service

- Ability to roll up to 10 days annual leave per year

- In addition to eight public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday

- Parental and Adoption Leave

- Discounts on a range of services within and external to the civil service

## Skills

### Required
- strategic thinking
- leadership
- project management
- stakeholder management

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