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Business Support Officer

Job details
Posting date: 29 September 2025
Salary: £26,607 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 October 2025
Location: Liverpool
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: 429586/2

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Summary

Can you provide excellent clerical and administrative support to a wide range of stakeholders?

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!

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!

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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.
  • 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.

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