Compliance Officer
| Posting date: | 06 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £30,485 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The Hayes (Yeading) position attracts an additional London Weighting Allowance of £4,000 per annum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 423949/3 |
Summary
Can you embrace and adapt to change and transitions easily?
Do you enjoy actively looking for new ways of working to be more efficient and effective?
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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As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for the management of contracts ensuring buildings are compliant. The Estate current covers over 400 properties across the UK.
The role holder will undertake site visits regularly to manage the facilities, ensuring that the main buildings are meeting regulations and assisting your colleagues with any challenges they are facing with their facilities.
The successful candidate's focus will be to manage and monitor contractor works undertaken, ensuring the work completed is compliant and up to standard. You will play a key part in monitoring the performance of our suppliers, flagging any non-compliant works undertaken is communicated directly to contractors.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Undertake site visits to ensure the service provided by the facilities contractor meets the standard set out in the contract specification.
Ensuring that any sub-standard work is raised in the compliance visit report and escalated through appropriate channels as necessary.
Assist in the management of the Total Facilities Management contract by adhering to the timelines agreed for reports and escalations.
Undertake Ad hoc tasks and meetings as required to improve contract performance.
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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