Domestic Rail Security Business Support Officer
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,525 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National - £29,525 London - £33,864 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 June 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 408206/3 |
Summary
Do you have strong IT skills and confidence in handling and maintaining large contact databases?
Have you got experience of working in administrative function, supporting a team?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
People want to travel on transport networks that are protected, secure and reliable. The Department for Transport (DfT) is working with the transport industry, other government departments and stakeholders to minimise the risks from terrorism without causing undue disruption.
Transport security teams lead on National Security matters for DfT. The advertised role sits in the Land Transport National Security (LTNS) Division, which is responsible for setting policy and inspecting regulated industry in relation to counter-terrorism (CT) security.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport :
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As a Business Support Officer at DfT, you will be working within the Domestic Land Transport Security Policy Team in LTNS. Our team are responsible for CT security across the national railway and light rail networks within Great Britain. You will work with stakeholders across the department and its agencies, OGDs, industry, police and security and intelligence agencies to help to ensure that the regime remains fit for purpose and evolves in line with the evolving terrorist threat. This will be achieved by leading the management of the internal database for the domestic networks on people security, providing administrative and logistical support to the team, as well as liaising with industry and government stakeholders
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Day including management and development the PowerBI dashboard displaying industry security contact and vetting detailsSupporting our engagement with industry in delivering our security regulations including providing administrative and logistical support to large external meetingsIdentifying opportunities to improve administrative processes, both within the Domestic Land Transport Security team and across the Division.Supporting the development and implementation of transport security policies by providing general administration to the wider teamActing as the Domestic team’s training coordinator; organising training sessions for industry, which includes leading on administration, logistics (e.g. venue, travel and hospitality) and liaising with stakeholders.Participating in internal and external exercises and training events.For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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