Technical Auditor/Mentor

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Summary of the work To assess how the Information Directorate conducts its business and to ensure the new ways of working have been implemented correctly. This will entail understanding the operating model, understand the recent changes and ensuring the new practices have been fully implemented. Following this, make recommendations to improve the processes. Specialist role Business analyst Expected Contract Length 115 days with the option to extend for 55 days Latest start date 06/01/2017 Maximum Day Rate £1080 exc VAT Who Speclialist Work With The specialist will be working within the Army Information Directorate, specifically the D Info Portfolio Office. Other stakeholders include ISS, JFC and other front line commands. What Specialists Work On To assess how the Information Directorate conducts its business and to ensure the new ways of working have been implemented correctly. This will entail understanding the operating model, the recent changes and ensuring the new practices have been implemented, recognising that the processes are new, the implementation is on-going and the community of interest covers Information Directorate, wider ICS users, ISS and DE&S with possible links out to other related organisations such as GDS in both the Change and BaU spaces. Following this, make recommendations to improve the processes and how these improvements could be implemented. Skills & Experience • Expert knowledge of P3M Methodologies within Information Systems • Proven track record of auditing existing processes, process improvement and implementing change. • Experience of mentoring senior executives, teams and individuals in implementing change and process improvement • Expertise of business analytic capabilities and production of dashboards involving data analysis, integration and exploitation. • Proven track record of briefing senior executives • Experience of using Remedy Software • MoP and MSP qualifications and experience as a Portfolio or Programme Manager Nice to Haves • Understanding of the Army Operating Model • Experience of working in a military environment • Prince 2 or APMP qualified • Experience of working within the Information Directorate or ISS Work Location Army Headquarters, Andover, Hampshire. Working Arrangments On site 5 days a week. Working hours are Monday-Friday (may involve some travel from time to time). Approximate hours are 9:00 – 17:00. Travel and expenses will be capped according to the MOD's expense policy. Security Clearance Candidate will require existing SC clearance which must be in date for the duration of the requirement. Additional T&Cs These MOD DEFCONs and DEFFORMs form part of this Call Off Contract: 5J (Edn 07/08) Unique Identifiers 76 (Edn 12/06) Contractors on site 129J (Edn 07/08) Electronic business delivery form 516 (Edn 04/12) Equality 520 (Edn 07/11) Corrupt gifts and payments 521 (Edn 04/12) Subcontracting 522 (Edn 07/99) Payment 522J (Edn 05/03) Payment under P2P 523 (Edn 03/09) Payment of bills using BACS 531 (Edn 11/14) Disclosure of Information 534 (Edn 06/97) Prompt payment (Subcontracts) 550 (Edn 02/14) Child Labour and employment 566 (Edn 07/14) Change of control contractor 642 (Edn 06/14) Progress meetings 703 (Edn 08/13) Intellectual property rights No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers • Transparent and collaborative when making decisions • Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 75% Cultural fit 5% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. Remedy Software - Can you please clarify the Supplier of the Package and the version that you expect the candidate to work upon. The supplier of Remedy is BMC and the version is 9.1.