Army - Requirements Manager

Job summary

The Ministry of Defence, Civil Service workforce is diverse, with many different functions and professions ranging from police officers, security guards, trainers, human resources, teachers, and psychologists to storekeepers, financiers, project and programme managers, and policy secretariat staff to support the British Army.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to help deliver the next generation services contract for the Army Foundation College, Harrogate. The current Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract expires in December 2029, and we are working now to ensure seamless transition to the future service.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

As a Business Analyst, you will predominantly lead the identification, analysis, and management of user and business requirements support the relet of contracted services for Army Foundation College Harrogate. You will ensure requirements are evidence-based, user-centred, and aligned with strategic, commercial, and operational outcomes. As the programme matures, you will also have the opportunity to work on other Business Analysis related areas.

Working within a multi-disciplinary programme team, you will translate user needs into clear, testable, and deliverable requirements that inform business cases, procurement activity, and service design. You will play a key role in ensuring services are viable, affordable, and deliver measurable benefits.

Requirements Definition and Management

• Lead the capture, development, and documentation of user, site, and organisational requirements.
• Produce and maintain the Requirements Baseline, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and Army policy.
• Translate user needs into clear, deliverable, and commercially viable requirements suitable for tender documents.
• Ensure requirements are testable, traceable, prioritised, and measurable.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with AFC Harrogate staff, Army HQ, Commercial, Finance, and technical SMEs to validate requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and site visits to ensure requirements accurately reflect operational and training needs.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicting requirements.

Commercial and Procurement Support

• Provide authoritative requirements inputs to procurement documentation including the SOR/SOW, KPIs/SLAs, interface requirements, and performance regimes.
• Support the development of evaluation criteria linked to requirements.
• Ensure all requirements comply with relevant standards, regulations, and MOD policy.

Assurance and Governance

• Maintain a clear audit trail for all requirements decisions and changes.
• Provide requirements content for business cases and approvals documents.
• Support assurance reviews, responding to findings and updating requirements where necessary.

Transition and Mobilisation Support

• Ensure requirements are understood and deliverable by incoming suppliers.
• Provide expert advice during mobilisation and early delivery phases to ensure services meet defined requirements.
• Support readiness assessments and ensure any requirement deviations are managed.

Integration and Coordination

• Collaborate with the PMO to integrate requirements work into schedules, risk logs, and dependencies.
• Work with the Programme Manager to ensure requirements align with measurable benefit outcomes.
• Provide regular progress updates and reports to programme governance.

Person specification

Essential Skills Required:

• Experience in working in a Project/Programme environment
• Experience of supporting or leading the preparation, development, and maintenance of business cases or requirements
• Practitioner level Project Management Qualification, such as APM PFQ/PMQ or equivalent.

Desirable Skills

Requirements or business analysis training, such as:

• Capability and Acquisition: Requirements Management.
• IREB CPRE

Qualifications

Practitioner level Project Management Qualification, such as APM PFQ/PMQ or equivalent.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Requirements Management - Practitioner Level

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Army prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.

Other benefits for Army civil servants include:

• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
• Highly competitive pension scheme
• Personal and professional development of skills
• Alternative working patterns for many roles
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a free service that assists you with achieving a productive, healthy environment that is conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• 6 days special leave per year which can be used for volunteering activities
• Learning and Development opportunities tailored to your role

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/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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.

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

• CV
• Personal Statement (500 words) - detailing how you meet the essential and desirable skills criteria

Where a large number of applications are received, an initial sift will be conducted based on the evidence you provide in support of Personal Statement .

The remaining elements will only be reviewed if you are successful at this initial sift.

At interview stage you will be assessed against the following:

• Behaviour - Leadership
• Behaviour - Delivering at Pace
• Behaviour - Managing a Quality Service
• Technical - Requirements Management - Practitioner level evidence of understanding and experience in the following competencies as listed in the Project Delivery Capability Framework Business Analyst SEO - Government Project Delivery

Application sifting will be scheduled to take place within 7 days of the application closing date. Interview dates are to be confirmed and will be held in person. We endeavour to keep to these time frames, but these are subject to change around business needs.

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, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both DCS and non-DCS applicants.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).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.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Neil Hahner
• Email : Neil.hahner907@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSCivPers-ResourcingTeam3@mod.gov.uk

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: info@csc.gov.uk.

Attachments

Business Analyst SEO - Government Project Delivery -Technical Framework Opens in new window (pdf, 328kB)ARMY Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 273kB)Defence Civil Service Offer Opens in new window (pdf, 1562kB)Defence Internal Brief notice Opens in new window (docx, 43kB)