About the job

Job summary

The Band D Governance & Secretariat Officer role is pivotal to the delivery of high-level decision making in the SFO. You will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation’s governance structure receives high-level support and that it operates efficiently, effectively, transparently and with integrity. In this fascinating position you will work with staff across all disciplines within the SFO, and be part of the Private Office and broader Strategy Group teams. You will be provided with a training programme and be built-up to represent best practice in governance and assurance.

The role, which offers you privileged access to the highest levels of decision-making in the organisation, sits within Strategy Group. You will need to maintain a high level of professionalism and discretion. It will suit anyone seeking to find out more about the running of the SFO and the law enforcement field, and those wishing to develop their skills in a supportive environment. 

Job description

As a Governance and Secretariat Officer, you will:

• Provide efficient and effective secretariat support to the top tier of organisational committees;
• Create a rolling twelve month Forward Look of both internal and external committee dates:
• Create a Forward Look of Committee items for discussion throughout the year, ensuring alignment of activity across committees;
• Manage and provide high quality support to various Boards and Committees including practical arrangements for meetings, maintain a forward plan of key agenda items, liaising with the Chair to prepare agendas and commission briefs.
• Drafting accurate and concise minutes within agreed timeframes.
• Actions from meetings will be correctly recorded and followed up to ensure that issues raised are appropriately tracked and concluded.

For more information about the role and for a full list of key responsibilities, please see attached Job Pack.

Person specification

See above and attached Job Pack.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,797, Serious Fraud Office contributes £8,855 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 750 words that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the essential experience criteria as listed in the job pack.
• A supporting CV outlining your job history.

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

Interview stage

Behaviours and experience criteria as outlined in the job pack will be tested at interview.

Candidates invited to interview will also be required to complete an assessment.

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

Sift to take place from 27th February.

Interviews are expected to take place w/c 11th March.

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.