Location: Flexible
Package: Competitive Salary
Role Type: Fixed Term/Part-Time
Role ID: 17491
QinetiQ Work Placement Opportunity
Do you have experience in education, charities, or running projects? Want to undertake a paid work placement whilst working for one of the UK’s largest Defence and Security organisations?
Here at QinetiQ we are proud of the role we play in supporting UK national security and championing our Armed Forces community. Through our partnership with Recruit for Spouses, we are excited to offer 2 part time work placements, running for 10 weeks this October.
Across your work placement you will:
- Support the planning of QinetiQ’s autumn community delivery plans – ranging from work experience for young people, projects with RfS, and wellbeing initiatives across the business
- Support with the content creation and delivery of outreach activities, including sessions to inspire the next generation of women in STEM and support
- Research opportunities to deepen our impact with particular communities, from identifying local barriers to finding impactful community charities
- Ensuring all activities are recorded through our internal data platforms
We are looking for candidates with:
- Enthusiasm, positivity, and are keen to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in
- Experience in developing and delivering projects in the education/charity/community sectors
- Confidence in presenting to and communicating with a wide range of individuals and communities
- Experience of working with and supporting young people would be beneficial
What will you get from it?
Alongside the salary and work experience for your CV, you will:
- Be paired with a QinetiQ Buddy & technical support across your work placement, & coach from RfS to support you across your placement
- Have opportunities to network across the business, talking to others who are doing similar roles or roles you might be interested in explore in future
- Receive support foryour CV and interview skills from our People Team
- Access a wide range of training courses to help you develop your soft and technical skills whilst in the role
How does it work?
Hours – the work placement comprises 21 hours per week, but these can be worked in a manner that meets the successful candidates needs. For example it could be working 3 days a week, or working between school hours for 5 days a week for childcare/caring responsibilities.
Location– this placement can be completed in a virtual, hybrid, or in-person manner. If the successful candidate is located close to a QinetiQ office, we will provide them access to a desk. If not, the candidate must have a suitable home environment to work effectively in.
Travel– occasional travel to events/sites may be available as part of the placement, but this will be agreed with the candidate & not mandatory.
Technology– a work laptop will be provided to the candidate for the duration of the placement.
Clearance– the successful candidate will be required to achieve BPSS
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This placement has been developed for flexibility to meet the needs of military spouses, if you are interested but have half term / a doctor’s appointments / a holiday already scheduled for the period – that’s not a problem. We will work with the successful candidate to make sure that the placement accommodates any childcare, caring, study, or other commitments that you may also have.
Our Benefits
- Adaptive and flexible working
- Generous holiday allowance
- Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
- Matched contribution Pension Scheme, with Life Assurance
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
- We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
- Payroll Giving and Volunteering – helping charities and local communities
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.
Why join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having thecourage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culturehere.
Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.
About QinetiQ
As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend.
Come and find out how you can play a role.
Please note thatmany rolesin QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting.
Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.