Ministry of Defence: Employment Schemes

(asked on 27th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in his Department participated in the (a) Rise and (b) Elevate schemes in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021 and (d) 2022.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 5th December 2023

Rise is a 12-month internal civilian talent scheme aimed at colleagues at grades from Administrative Assistant (AA) to Executive Officer (EO). Rise aims to develop those showing early leadership potential through a series of targeted learning experiences in Defence to build the leadership capability required to deliver Defence outputs in the future. Scheme members also gain the opportunity to widen their knowledge and networks across Defence and develop the confidence to manage their own development and career effectively.

Elevate is a two-year leadership skills development programme and has been developed for internal Ministry of Defence civilian staff at Higher Executive Officer (HEO) and Senior Executive Officer (SEO) levels. Through Action Learning Sets, Elevate members develop a network of colleagues, grow their understanding of Defence and undertake work to develop leadership and management skills. In addition, job shadowing offers a chance to explore new areas or roles, and bitesize learning sessions widen knowledge of Defence.

Both schemes were launched in 2021. The numbers of participants are set out below:

Rise:

2021: 23

2022: 48

Elevate:

2021: 30

2022: 30 (same cohort as for 2021 due to scheme duration)

Rise and Elevate are pilot talent schemes in their infancy. Budgeted programme costs are £100,000 and actual spend was £92,960 in Financial Year 2021-22 and £42,190 in Financial Year 2022-23.

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