Approvals Technical Officer
| Posting date: | 28 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Additional salary information: | This role carries a Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £1,450 per annum. Candidates who will be working from a base office location within the M25 will receive an additional London Weighting allowance of £4,000. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 November 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 434260/7 |
Summary
Would you embrace the chance to play a key role in ensuring vehicle safety and compliance across the UK?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity available and would love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for our customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of technology and data
- Grow and level up the economy
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 DVSA.
As an Approvals Technical Officer, you will be responsible for processing technical applications for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA), Certificate of Initial Fitness (COIF), and Motorcycle Individual Vehicle Approval (MSVA). You will be responsible for checking reports and supporting documentation to ensure compliance with regulatory standards, evaluating technical reports, and creating/updating model reports used by vehicle examiners, therefore, ensuring consistency and accuracy in vehicle assessments.
Providing technical support is an essential aspect of the role, where you will advise frontline staff, operators, manufacturers, trade organisations, and members of the public on certification and regulatory matters. You will also monitor testing processes to identify potential risks and inefficiencies and investigate solutions.
Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Providing technical support to the clerical processing team and an advisory service to customers.
- Assessing approval applications covering a range of vehicles, checking reports and supporting documentation for compliance.
- Communicating positively and effectively with internal and external customers to fully understand their requirements, ensuring a concise accurate response is delivered.
- Working with the Approvals Technical Team and other teams within the Customer Service Centre to share ideas and promote best practice
- Providing support to the Approvals Process Manager, representing DVSA at trade events and to carry out ad hoc related tasks.
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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