About the job

Job summary

The Commercial Officer works to complete administrative processes across the Commercial Section business area. The Commercial Section is part of the Facilities Management and Commercial department, within the Corporate Services division. This is a combined department that delivers both FM helpdesk services alongside Commercial outcomes. Staff are specialised, but expected to assist with tasks in either part of the department where required.

The role principally handles the administration of counsel records for the SFO. This is an important task, and demands interaction with senior members of the organisation. Besides this, the Commercial Officer provides general business support services to the department, and will occasionally be required to assist with work in the FM area.

Job description

As a Commercial Officer, you will be responsible for:

• Acting as the first point of contact for the Commercial inbox, and administering the inbox to ensure correspondence is effectively directed to the rest of the team.
• Responding to queries regarding counsel, drafting counsel engagement letters, and administering the counsel database.
• Maintaining the contracts database, and publishing contractual notices as and when required.
• Assisting with contract management activities.
• If required, assisting switchboard calls in line with guidance provided by Strategic Relations.
• Assisting with project work within the Commercial Section and, where required, in FM.

Person specification

See above and the attached Job Pack.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £27,148, Serious Fraud Office contributes £7,329 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

Application stage

As part of the application process you will be required to provide:

• A personal statement of no more than 500 words that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the essential and desirable criteria as listed in the Job Pack.

It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage.

Interview stage

Behaviours and essential experience criteria as outlined in the Job Pack will be tested at interview.

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

Sift to take place from 19th March 2024.

Interviews are expected to take place w/c 1st April 2024. 

All dates are indicative and subject to change.

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

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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)

Working for the Civil Service

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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.