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Celebrating Women across Defence and the Civil Service

Category: Gender (Equality & Identity)

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Hi, I’m Nicola and I have just taken up the post of Head HR (Civilian) Army in February 2022. My role has oversight of 8500 civil servants who work in 300 locations in 13 different countries. I am really pleased to be back in the MOD having come from a role in the Cabinet Office where I was the lead for building professional capability of the project delivery function, which included the establishing of the Government Projects Academy.

Most of my government career has been in Defence.  Starting as an analyst in Defence Intelligence, I undertook operational roles in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the first civilian senior intelligence officer at the Land Intelligence Fusion Centre. I continued my career working with the Army qualifying as a management consultant and became a senior HR Business Partner, specialising in change management, before working as a Deputy Command Secretary. I then moved into MOD Head Office working within Civilian HR developing strategic workforce and skills planning capability and strategic resourcing interventions.  During this time, I was responsible for leading Defence’s contribution to EU Exit No Deal resource planning in support of other government departments. 

I am a qualified management consultant; organisational design and development practitioner; a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a winner of a Women in Defence Award for Inclusive Teamwork in 2019.   I am also a mother to two energetic boys and with the flexible working options enjoy balancing this job with being their number one fan whether watching them play cricket, football, basketball and rugby! 

I have been fortunate to have a varied career across Defence and the Civil Service and in this role am driven to improving the lived experience in Defence and enabling our civil servants to reach their full potential. The modernisation and reform of the Civil Service and Future Soldier are exciting agendas where all of our contributions will shape the delivery of the Army.

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