Stephen Carter

Experience

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  1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

  Oct 2009 - Apr 2011

  Commander (Specialist Team Leader) Close Reconnaissance and Snipers

  Officer responsible for selection, training and leadership of soldiers within the Battalion's reconnaissance and sniper platoon. Motivation and leadership of teams providing surveillance, information and analysis to the Commanding Officer in arduous, demanding conditions, by day and night in all weather conditions.Role included implementing Commanding Officer's training directive's and producing training programmes to deliver operationally effective organisation able to conduct a variety of bespoke tasks. The immediate line management of 40 specialist trained soldiers and the forecasting of their future training and career plans. Management and maintenance of a fleet of 8 armoured fighting vehicles and their associated lethal effects and communications equipment. Show less

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  British Army Training Unit Suffield (Canada)

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  Training Officer (SO3) Close Reconnaissance

  Officer responsible for training, safety and mentoring of Close Reconnaissance Platoons within the context of a 1000 man armoured force.Planned and executed a training programme in the live and simulated environment across the Canadian Prairie. Provided the 'customer' with demanding, complex, flexible and appropriate field training to develop their tactical ability as a surveillance asset. Following training serials, delivered 'After Action Review' feedback on performance using a variety of digital and qualitative sources. Period in appointment included redesign of training evolution and progression from first principles to deliver a Recce Platoon ready to embark on training for operations in Afghanistan or contingency. Throughout this period managed and motivated a 15 man training staff from across the Army's combat field. Also responsible for the overarching safety of all personnel in a dynamic environment involving explosives, ammunition, aerial drones and armoured vehicles, in all weather conditions, by day and night. Show less

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  British Army - 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

  Dec 2011 - Dec 2013

  Adjutant First Fusiliers

  Principal staff officer and advisor to Commanding Officer. Responsibilities include human resource management, manning and appraisals for 700+ employees; managing inflow and outflow through redundancy delivery and career management; the administration of discipline, employment law and complaints; the deployment of 1000 soldiers on overseas training and operational deployments; implementation of Army medical policy and scrutiny of delivery; liaison with other organisations up down and across the Army's hierarchy; monitor compliance of all employees with strategy and new policies; when deployed, the operations coordinator and reporter of all tactical activity. Show less

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  Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

  Dec 2013 - Dec 2014

  Leadership Instructor Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (Platoon Commander)
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  UK Ministry of Defence

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

  Primarily responsible for Army’s relationship with Parliamentarians and Think Tanks in London. Leadership of Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme 2016-17 (Army). Planned and delivered the RUSI Land Warfare Conference (LWC) 2016 at Church House. Project Officer for LWC 2017. Focal point for all Army engagement with Westminster and Parliamentarians’ understanding of the Army. Pre-planned projects and schemes to support two-way understanding and high-level stakeholder engagement, alongside episodic focussed engagement on key issues of political significance. Show less

  • Army Strategic and Parliamentary Engagement (Project Officer/SO2), Army Staff London

    Aug 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Military Assistant to 3* Defence Chief (Military Strategy and Operations), Ministry of Defence

    Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
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  First Fusiliers

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

  Armoured Infantry Company Commander and Ukraine Training Team Lead

  Operational leadership and management of a 100+ infantry soldiers and officers. Planned and delivered two operational training missions in Ukraine with two different regional forces. Working independently and with autonomy to Ukrainian stakeholders. Re-designed from first principles combat instructor training modules. First prize article in the Combat Journal 2018: Professionalising Armoured Infantry. Delegated leadership of sub-organisation working as part of a larger operational Unit and independently when required. Planning and delivery of high risk and realistic training to develop teams and leaders. Delegated financial responsibility for budget and management equipment holdings. Show less

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  British Army

  Jul 2019 - now

  Two year programme of study, placements and workplace-based learning for selected Lieutenant Colonels to gain business consultancy and change management skills. The programme aims to prepare the cohort for future command, leadership and management positions in higher headquarters. Key elements include an Executive MBA (Global) with Henley Business School; business consultancy skills training delivered by McKinsey & Co. Partners and regular top-up packages; ethical leadership workshops with the Forward Institute; and,further leadership training with the Windsor Leadership Trust. Once up-skilled, the cohort of Lieutenant Colonels work as change management consultants on the Army’s strategic/institutional challenges. Diagnosing issues, designing future-state solutions and working with senior leaders to implement change. Show less Principal staff officer to the 2* General and Army Board member responsible for setting the Army’s institutional aiming mark, alongside driving transformation and innovation day-to-day. Army Futures determines the Army’s strategy for the 3 to 15 year horizon. Defining and iterating the Army’s concepts for operating globally and warfighting in the near future. Ensuring a more competitive Army year-on-year and setting the requirements for future equipment investment decisions. Futures leads innovation and early adoption of disruptive technology and sets the priorities for the Army’s ambitious experimentation agenda.Persistent engagement with defence industry, small/medium enterprises, science & technology leaders, academia and think tanks. Regular interoperability dialogue with principal allies. Show less Awarded a Chief of the General Staff’s Commendation for project work on the Army’s 2020/21 Integrated Review proposition: Future Soldier. As SO2 Organisation (A), the Army HQ lead desk officer for organisational change. Including the urgent resourcing of the Army’s structures to meet institutional-level priorities; annualised project work to ensure workforce inputs/outputs are balanced on a 10-year horizon. Coherence of in-year rapid change and longer term transformation of capabilities from an organisational perspective. Core member of the Army’s Integrated Review team (EMBANKMENT) which became the Future Soldier programme. Show less

  • Commanding Officer

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Lieutenant Colonel Army Advanced Development Programme & Exec MBA (Henley)

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Military Assistant to Director Army Futures

    Jul 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Project Officer (SO2), Strategy Directorate, Army HQ

    Jul 2019 - Jul 2021