The Acquisition Handbook

Staff Reportingc. Open Competition — These are advertised only through the national press and are thus opento any applicant, internal or external, who responds to the advertisement.Anyone applying for a post is required to complete an IPT Leader Application form which isbased upon the competences. The forms are available in the AMS, from personnel managementorganisations or the DIC.The key principle of the selection process is that it is clear to all, transparent and demonstrablyfair and robust. The selection board comprises line management from the IPT host organisation(although, for some IPTs there may be representation from both the DPA and DLO), the customer(again, for some IPTs, there may be representation from both customers) and a representativefrom one of the Civil Service personnel management authorities.The actual process is divided into 2 parts. Firstly the applicants are sifted by the board into a finalshort list of candidates who are subjected to the full selection process. The selection process willbe a combination of a number of activities which include scenario assessments, psychometriccritical reasoning tests, an Occupational Personality Questionnaire and a structured competencebased interview.Staff ReportingAll MOD core members of the IPT will have line management chains within the IPT to the TeamLeader. Where neither the immediate nor second line manager is of the same specialism as theindividual being reported on, the immediate line manager will act as reporting officer and themost appropriate member of the core member’s specialism will act as countersigning officer.Under this arrangement, an IPT member’s reporting officer will normally be the Team Leader,thus providing the IPT Leader with sufficient authority to carry out the job, or a fellow TeamMember. Everyone’s report, however, will have a contribution from someone of the samespecialism when this is required.The staff reporting chain for an IPT Leader is determined case by case.Normal MOD staff reporting procedures will not apply to reports made on Industry IPT members.An IPT Leader may need to establish arrangements to provide feedback on the performance ofindustry IPT members to their parent company.IPT Leaders and members from industry who act as reporting or countersigning officers will begiven training in MOD staff appraisal procedures (civilian and military as appropriate) as soon aspossible after joining the IPT.40