Expression of Interest – Maritime Battlestaff Littoral Strike Planner
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time.
Practice Areas: Collective Training, Maritime
Salary: Highly competitive, depending upon qualifications and experience.
Location: Portsmouth
The Opportunity
Inzpire is a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence training and technology company who design, develop and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products and services. Inzpire’s Maritime Division provides maritime warfare consultancy and expertise, end-to-end maritime services and solutions to global clients. We are identifying potential candidates to support us with an exciting opportunity to support the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for the delivery of maritime battlestaff training.
We have potential opportunities opening over the coming months in this area, on a full-time permanent basis.
As the Littoral Strike Planner you will:
- Support the planning and delivery of battlestaff exercises.
- Support the littoral lead planner in the design and delivery of littoral focussed battlestaff exercises.
- Provide subject matter expertise input to scenario development.
- Work within EXCEN during exercise delivery, primarily in EXCON, but supporting HICON and SIDECON activity as required.
- Provide dynamic scripting capability during exercises.
- Be part of a professional white force in a multi-domain environment.
- Provide insightful coaching, mentoring and analysis of the training audiences through maritime military scenarios and help present after-action reports to promote effective learning.
- Lead/support one day vignettes and team events.
The team will work from an office in Portsmouth Dockyard. Successful applicants would be joining us at an exciting time as we develop our core offerings to the future of maritime operational training.
The Person
We are looking to hire talented, experienced people who are passionate about maritime training and implementing modern, engaging and collective training services. The successful candidate will be supporting colleagues in delivering core outputs from day one.
We seek expressions of interest from those with following experience:
Essential
- Royal Marine.
- Either 1* and/or 2* Battlestaff experience or a Landing Craft specialist.
- Instructing, coaching and mentoring skills within an RM training environment.
- Currency in joint / combined multi-domain operations.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with a proven ability to multi-task and prioritise.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with attention to detail and the ability to present information, which is compelling, engaging, and unambiguous
- Work proactively, seamlessly, constructively, both independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent IT skills, to include Office 360
Desirable
- Amphibious and Task Group Operations experience.
Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful applicant must be a UK National and may be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting which may require criminal record, security service and credit reference checks; qualification will also normally require a minimum UK residency of at least 5 years.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- 30 days paid holiday plus 8 days bank holidays per year
- Uncapped leave scheme (upon successful completion of probation period)
- Company provided private medical and dental insurance
- Company Share Incentive Scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Annual profit and performance related pay scheme
- Generous death in service (£100k)
- Company contributions into a group personal pension scheme
- Business travel insurance
- Funded role specific training and financial assistance with professional development
- Tax efficient cycle to work and charitable giving schemes
- Tax efficient electric vehicle company car scheme
The Company
We are a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence and technology company that design, develop, and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products, and services.
We were recently crowned Employer of the Year at the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards 2023. We have been listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies several times as well as achieving ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world-class’ for our employee engagement on a number of occasions. We are also proud to have been honoured with two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation, for our next-generation GECO military mission planning system.
As part of a unique and specialist defence company, our friendly team consists of experienced and highly capable individuals, working together with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright and modern head office to the west of Lincoln, alongside our mission systems team, while the majority of our operational specialists are embedded alongside our Defence customers.
Equal Opportunities
Inzpire are committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment for current and prospective employees. We recognise that a diverse, talented and highly motivated workforce is pivotal to our continuing success, therefore our selection decisions are based on the merit of the individual, irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other characteristic.
We genuinely recognise the benefits of a diverse and inclusive working environment. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, a supportive signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and a Gold award winner within the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We are therefore delighted to offer a guaranteed interview scheme to service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners (including those of service leavers) who meet all our advertised requirements.
Applications
You will receive an acknowledgement email upon submission of your application (please make sure to check your spam/junk folder if you don't receive one!). Please be assured that your CV will be reviewed and that we will be in contact to update you on the status of your application; this may take 3-6 weeks.
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