Army Futures - Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer

The Information Manoeuvre Coherence Senior Executive Officer (SEO) is a high profile appointment which will provide applicants the opportunity to engage and work with a wide range of stakeholders in Army Headquarters, ensuring that there is a joined up approach to military capability development. More specifically the incumbent will be responsible for:

Engaging across Army Headquarters Futures Directorate and with external organisations, including the other Front Line Commands, to ensure that the Army's Innovation, Research and Experimentation is coherent with the Army's future digital and data strategy and communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability roadmap
Attending internal Army Futures Military Capability Planning working groups, capability user boards and functional capability working groups to ensure that military capability planning outcomes are coherent with the Army's Land Domain Digital Ecosystem
Working with the non-Information Manoeuvre capability planning groups to manage dependencies, highlight opportunities and potential cross cutting activities
Working with industry, academia, and the Science & Technology community to identify future and/or developing technologies with the potential to meet identified Army digital capability requirements
Interact with DSTL, jHub, Defence and Security Accelerator related Science and Technology activity to support the development of communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability
In conjunction with stakeholders, develop use cases to demonstrate the utility of the capabilities and technologies identified to meet Army's future communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability requirements
Producing the necessary documentation to secure funding to pursue or develop identified future communications, cyber and electronic warfare capability opportunities
Other duties as required

Whilst there are no line management responsibilities with this role the incumbent will work closely with a small team of regular and reserve military personnel. As part of a small, whole force team, the successful candidate will be agile to the changing needs of the branch and work flexibly to support the Assistant Head and other colleagues as required. They will need to maintain a broad oversight of all branch activity, and have the ability to call on subject matter expertise as required, and to seize the initiative to identify and treat risks before they become issues.