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What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As a Strategy Partner, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Definition and delivery of elements of company process ‘Manage Business Strategy’.
• Analysis of external environment to identify strategic trends, risks, issues and opportunities, with assessment to identify the key strategic drivers for AWE; gather information from SMEs internally and externally; input to Annual Strategic Assessment.
• Strategic issues analysis and decision support, including strategic studies, strategic risks and uncertainty.
• Development of long-term capability management strategy, working across business.
• Development of future warhead and business scenarios to test long-term capability.
• Stakeholder analysis and mapping - e.g. AWE maintain System of Interest, Nuclear Environment Timeline.
• Build and maintain network across AWE to achieve internal stakeholder support on key strategic issues.
• Develop materials and provide support to strategy roll-out, implementation, review and monitoring.
• Maintaining AWE’s Corporate Strategy and supporting business area strategies by supporting and/or facilitating senior leaders to review and refresh strategic goals and objectives.
• Manage relationship with any contractors supporting strategy sub-function and provide budgetary forecasts.

DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

Essential:

• Experience in writing and delivering strategy.
• Experience in creating and presenting transformation plans.
• Creating written documents
• Excellent stakeholder engagement

Desirable:

• Public sector
• Stakeholder mapping
• Horizon scanning and future planning.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with luciana-auras.popescu@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

AWE  is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that groupIf you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.