Business Support Officer
| Posting date: | 22 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,159 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Bangor (County Down) |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 410343/1 |
Summary
Do you have an understanding of financial management control?
Have you got excellent communication, organisational and time management skills?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government’s maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.
Safer lives. Safer Ships. Cleaner Seas.
Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.
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 MCA.
The role of Business Support Officer is to collaborate with and work under the direction of the MO Business Support Manager (BSM) to ensure that MO Business Support is aligned with Survey & Inspection priorities. Provide first class clerical and administrative support to MO Surveyors including, creating Survey Cases,
maintaining PPE, and researching and completing travel booking arrangements.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Providing day to day administrative and clerical support to the MO Surveyors
- Assisting with the day to day booking and allocation of surveys and inspections, taking account of eligibility requirements and availability
- Assisting with exam bookings
- Supporting the National Business Unit by providing records of work undertaken on the Shipping Accounts process
- Providing administration and clerical assistance to MO surveyors involving creation of Survey Cases, Travel Bookings, maintaining paperwork and records./*EndFragment */
- Providing general advice to internal and external stakeholders in accordance with MCA policies
- Providing administrative support and Secretariat duties to the MO for internal/external meetings
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.
This post is offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA).
Permanent Civil Servants will be appointed on an inward loan and subject to the terms of the agreed inward loan. You must have your home departments approval to return to them at the end of the loan before you apply. Internal candidates will return to their previous post at the end of the loan period, which will need to be agreed with your line manager in advance. If your home department cannot agree to release you on loan, there is the opportunity for you to move across to the department on a fixed term appointment. In this instance the Department for Transport would become your home department and if there is no role available for you at the end of this appointment, you would be subject to the redeployment and redundancy process.
If you're employed by a non-departmental public body (NDPB) by moving jobs this will involve a change of employer and you may break the statutory rules on continuity of employment.
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