Compliance Officer
| Posting date: | 15 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,525 to £30,262 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Nuneaton |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 416152/2 |
Summary
Can you consistently deliver high-quality work, even when you're up against a deadline?
Can you work collaboratively with others, both within your team and across wider departments?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Our work is focused on improving vehicle safety and environmental protection by providing robust testing and certification to national and internationally recognised standards. We are a part of the Department for Transport as the designated UK Vehicle Type Approval Authority. With more than 40 years’ experience, we have become one of the largest and well-respected approval bodies around. This position has been built on a reputation for technical expertise and quality, which is at the heart of everything we do, and what you could be a part of.
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, and 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 VCA.
This role is within the Type Approval Certification Department which is responsible for granting the approval certificates within the VCA. The introduction of the GB Type Approval Scheme in 2022 is an opportunity for VCA to evolve to meet a new objective and support the global automotive industry in gaining GB Type Approval. This role is an important part of that evolution, and its purpose is to review applications from automotive manufacturers and determine their compliance against UNECE, GB or UK(NI) legislative standards.
The role is primarily focused on statutory and non-statutory vehicle certification functions and holds responsibility for supporting specific workstreams, using your experience to support the issuance of Type Approval Certificates in line with organisational priorities. You will act as the point of contact for internal and external enquiries relating to approval applications within a specific workstream, liaising with vehicle manufacturers to coordinate workload.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Assessment of Type Approval applications against an automotive standard, making a judgement on compliance and an approval decision
- Maintain and develop own knowledge in Type Approval subjects and broadening of own competence
- Management of workload to meet Key Performance Indicators
- Collaboration amongst colleagues to manage team workload and identify priorities
- Communicate with applicants to clarify the information provided where necessary to ensure a timely decision is made on applications
- Use of VCA systems to ensure accurate data records are kept for audit purposes
- Work within VCA Quality Management System to ensure high quality standards are maintained
- Possible line management of a small number of Certification Officers
- Any other reasonable request commensurate with the grade and/or as agreed with your line manager
For further information on the role, please read the 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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