compliance officer Bristol, England
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We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice and welcome and encourage applications from everyone, such as ethnic minorities, women, disabled people and those who identify as LGBT+.
To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace and making DVSA a great place to work visit our Careers website.
Are you passionate about improving a working environment to benefit yourself and others?
Can you embrace and adapt to change and transitions easily?
Do you enjoy actively looking for new ways of working to be more efficient and effective?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Job description
As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for the management of contracts currently covering over 400 properties in a large geographical area.
The role holder will undertake site visits regularly to manage the facilities, ensuring that the main buildings are meeting regulations and assisting your colleagues with any challenges they are facing with their facilities.
The successful candidate's focus will be to manage and monitor contractor works undertaken, ensuring the work completed is compliant and up to standard. You will play a key part in monitoring the performance of our suppliers, flagging any non-compliant works undertaken is communicated directly to contractors.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to;
Ensuring that any sub-standard work is raised in the compliance visit report and escalated through appropriate channels as necessary.
Assist in Management of the TFM contract by adhering to the timelines agreed for reports and escalations.
Ensuring that any work that is not completed is raised in a timely manner allowing colleagues to progress works to resolution.
Undertake Ad-hoc tasks and meetings as required to improve contract performance.
Provide guidance to staff to support the delivery of objectives.
- Manage and engage with honesty and integrity, upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached Candidate Pack.
Person specification
To thrive in this role, you have strong communication skills and the ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships, with colleagues and external contractors and customers.
You have an analytical mind and are serviced focused, with the ability to effectively report your findings to colleagues.
You have excellent organisation skills and can prioritise your workload, when presented with conflicting deadlines to achieve agreed timescales.
There will be a development opportunity for you to gain the following qualifications whilst in post, if not already held:
- IWFM Qualification
- IOSH Managing Safely
- IOSH Legionella Management
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The role involves extensive travel and regular overnight stays across a large geographical area of Great Britain.
About Us
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.
We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for our customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of technology and data
- Grow and level up the economy
We’re committed to giving all our colleagues purpose, professionalism and pride in what we do. We work in supportive, diverse and inclusive teams where everyone is valued. You can grow, develop and progress, and make a real difference to society.
Visit the Department for Transport careers website to read more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVSA.
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We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
If you would like to read more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVSA visit our Careers website.
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Selection process details
This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.
The sift is due to take place 13th - 14th July 2023.
Interviews are likely to be held 19th - 21st July 2023.
This interview could be conducted via a video interview, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
We’ll try to meet the dates we’ve set out in the advert. But there may be occasions when these dates will change. We’ll give you plenty of notice of any important dates.
How to Apply
As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a CV and Personal Statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
For your Personal Statement, please provide detailed evidence of the following:
- Your experience of building and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues and external contractors / customers.
- Your experience of analysing data, drawing conclusions and reporting it back to the business effectively.
- Your experience of using your organisational skills to complete a task / project to agreed timescales
Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 750 words.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview
If you would like to find out more about what it’s like to work for DVSA and how to apply, we will be holding virtual sessions to find out more. Please click here to secure your place at one of our upcoming events.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the candidate pack as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport recruits using Success Profiles. For each role, we consider what you need to demonstrate 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.
You can read more about Success Profiles here.
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.
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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.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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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).
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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
