Deputy Product Owner

Help get better trained personnel to the front line faster

The Deputy Product Owner will work within a new Training Transformation process to shape the solutions and ensure valuable products are created for the Royal Navy. They will coordinate the input from Educators, Curriculum Specialists, Training Designers, VLE specialists, infrastructure, technology, and synthetic training solutions to achieve our ambition to get better trained people, to the frontline faster.

This is a hybrid role working between home and HMS Collingwood, Fareham on average 2/3 days a week.

Job Description

What you will be doing:

• Deputising for the Product Owner, providing day to day leadership, helping a multidisciplinary team deliver a coherent product aligned with the transformation vision for your assigned Training Delivery Unit (TDU)
• Motivating and inspiring teams to deliver exciting and achievable transformative solutions within training
• Supporting acceleration through the Training Transformation process and delivering outcomes at pace via an Agile process
• Ensuring that the solutions presented to the Product Owner are coherent, ambitious and transformative.
• Ensuring all elements of Training Transformation meets the needs of the educators and trainees, producing transformed, learner centric and digitally enabled training
• Establishing the priorities and areas of focus for training improvement with the Training Delivery Unit Product Owner and the Educators

What we’re looking for:

You will have an Intimate knowledge of training delivery in one of the following areas (Essential):

Command Leadership and Management – People Centred Leadership (CLM)

Weapons Engineering (WE)

Communications Information Systems (CIS)

Warfare/Warfare Support (WAR)

Defence Diving (DDS)

You will also have:

Proven experience preparing, presenting and delivering solutions to clients (Desirable)

• Experience working within an agile environment.
• Experience of managing projects from start to finish
• Ability to Lead Innovation and Change
• Any experience of working in an agile environment would be beneficial
• Must be able to go through UK SC clearance

About Selborne

Selborne is a wide scale, 12 year transformation of Royal Navy Training. The contract worth GBP 1 billion was awarded in December 2020 to a consortium led by Capita to deliver and modernise training for the RN. The consortia of partners known as Team Fisher includes Raytheon UK, Fujitsu and University of Lincoln together with 14 other UK-based suppliers.

Our ‘one team’ philosophy is about collaboration and openness, key to the success of this programme. We are looking for people with the talent and experience who can help shape better outcomes for our customers. We are using our expertise in digital transformation to review service design, modernise courses and deploy cutting edge technology to enhance courses including synthetic training (simulator) systems and data analytics. This programme is a shared endeavour working alongside the Royal Navy’s Training Management Group (TMG) as a single integrated team. Together, we will address challenges and collectively improve outcomes for sailors and marines at scale across the naval enterprise – something we are proud to be part of over the coming years.

• Salary is negotiable depending upon skills and experience up to £70,000
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Onsite, secure parking
• Catering facilities and shops accessible
• Joining a new team in an exciting project delivering modernisation of Royal Navy Training
• Rewarding role making a real difference to those joining the Royal Navy

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. We will be in touch with you regarding your application shortly, however if you need to contact our recruitment team please email CPScareers@capita.com

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