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Administrative Officer

Role Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Driving the ANPR vehicle on a daily basis, ensuring that it is set up in line with prescribed operating and health and safety instructions.
• Contacting the helpdesk with details of location when set up and results when closing down.
• Working in a flexible manner with high level of overnight stays, requiring the Operator to lone work the majority of the time.
• Taking out vehicles which are not situated in their base region.
• Operator’s will be responsible for completing and sending the relevant travel forms in advance to the ANPR helpdesk.
• Ensuring both individual and vehicle accuracy and output performance meet objectives on a daily/weekly and monthly basis.
• Notifying the ANPR helpdesk when there is any issue with either the vehicle or ANPR equipment.
• Ensuring that the vehicle is maintained to a high standard ensuring that it is regularly valeted, serviced and any faults are reported using the correct process.
• On a weekly basis providing T&S and petrol receipts, along with flexi records for the period concerned. Also providing a log of locations to the ANPR helpdesk, ensuring that evasion rates and court requirements are taken into account.
• Looking for new locations and sites using information from managers taking into account; traffic volumes, evasion rates and court requirements. Provide managers with details of the new sites including where possible contacts at the relevant local authority.
• Working alongside the police and other agencies when required, providing the ANPR helpdesk with details of the operation beforehand and a summary of the operation afterwards.
• Attending and contributing to all meetings and ANPR conferences, offering positive participated to all ANPR work and initiatives.

There is a large element of personal responsibility within this role as you will be responsible for your workload and your own time management.

You will be required to be proactive in your approach always seeking to provide improvements in your role e.g. taking different routes at different times of the day to get the most peak time camera footage. We require you to be forward thinking and innovative and always take opportunities to suggest improvements. You will need to have the ability to be self-motivated as this role involves long periods of time in our vehicles capturing images of potential unlicensed vehicles.

Essential Criteria:

• You will need to have a full, clean driving licence
• A confident driver comfortable driving in unfamiliar locations
• Be able to travel at very short notice
• Ability to commit to regular overnight travel of up to 4 consecutive nights
• Ability to travel during peak holiday season
• The role holder will have a flexible attitude and confidence in communicating with stakeholders/colleagues in other vehicles, the ANPR helpdesk and members of the general public
• Be able to work well independently and maintain personal drive and motivation
• Comfortable to Lone work and have the ability to complete work with little or no supervision, prioritising own work
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
• Be flexible and apply a co-operative approach
• Good organisation and time management skills

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

How to Apply

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a 250 word statement against the lead Behaviour - Working Together and a CV/Personal Statement (maximum 750 words). Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

We need to understand how your skills and experience meet all the essential criteria for this role. You can use any part of your life to demonstrate your skills and experience, but it must be relevant to the role. You can refer to your work experience, education, hobbies, or interests.

You can decide the best way to structure your personal statement. You may choose to address each of the essential criteria on their own. Or you can give one example that covers all the essential criteria we are looking for. Click here for further guidance on submitting your CV and personal statement.

It is essential when submitting your personal statement that you provide as much detail as possible, within the word count, against the essential criteria outlined below as this will be used in conjunction with your CV to assess candidate suitability to move to the next round in the recruitment process.

For your CV and personal statement, please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:

• A flexible attitude and confidence in communicating with colleagues and members of the general public
• Ability to work well independently and maintain personal drive and motivation
• Good organisation and time management skills

Should we receive a large number of applications, an initial sift will be carried out on the lead Behaviour - Working Together.

The sift is due to take place from Monday 9th October 2023.

Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 30th October 2023.

This interview will be conducted via a video interview, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

If invited to interview, this may consist of a range of question types. These could include questions around behaviours and how you would respond in any situation as well as specific examples of things you have done.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• An interview

You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Document Accessibility

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email [email protected] for assistance.

Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

Pre-employment Checking

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact Government Recruitment Services via email: [email protected]
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website Here