Business Management Executive Officer

Location

Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester

About The Job

Job summary

From energy to security, health to human rights, we help the Government deliver life changing law for citizens.

The Government Legal Department (GLD) is the largest provider of legal services across government, advising most government departments on high profile matters that are frequently scrutinised in Parliament and the media.

Our work includes:

• Providing the Civil Service’s employment law advice and litigation
• Providing legal advice on policy development
• Handling high profile public and private law litigation including inquiries and inquests
• Preparing and drafting legislation
• Commercial transactional, litigation, property and advisory services ensuring value from commercial contracts worth billions of pounds
• Securing our economic and trade relationships

We are at the heart of delivering the Government’s priorities and our success depends on our people. As a non-ministerial government department, we are sponsored by the Attorney General and headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary. We employ nearly 3000 people, including over 2000 legal professionals and have offices across the UK.

Our vision is to be an outstanding legal organisation and a brilliant place to work where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. This is an exciting time for GLD, with cutting edge legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service .

To find out more about what we do, visit the Government Legal Department’s webpage or have a look at this short film , which showcases the breadth of work government lawyers and legal trainees are involved.

Business Management supports all our client teams and expert services.

The Government Legal Department (GLD) Business Management (BM) Teams support all our client teams and expert services. The Head of the BM Profession is Rachel Voss leading 15 different teams, totaling over 150 colleagues and with oversight of the BM services across the wider GLD.

Some BM teams work in GLD’s Strategy, People and Culture function, while others work alongside government lawyers across a range of legal disciplines.

The Employment Group is one of GLD’s Expert Services delivering specialist employment services for all GLD clients across the civil service. It is one of the largest employment law teams in the UK, comprising around 135 lawyers as well as a 30-strong BM Team. The BM Team is led by Faz Sheikh and includes provision of a specialist litigation support function for the employment lawyers within the Employment Group.

The BM Litigation Support role involves successful candidates working on high profile employment litigation, supporting their employment lawyer colleagues within the Group. Working as a close team, the role constitutes a vital part of the client service and presentation of legal cases to external stakeholders and in Employment Tribunals.

People working as Litigation Support officers will have the opportunity to develop confidence in a wide range of complex administrative tasks and develop an understanding of how law works in practice.

This is an exciting time for the BM team in the Employment Group. Our aim is to work closely with the GLD BM community and the lawyers within the Employment Group, building a collaborative and specialist BM function with clear career pathways for all. The Employment Group provides a strong program of induction and training, and a dynamic culture of collaboration and mutual support.

Key Tasks and Duties - As required within the role

To manage a broad range of varied casework support activities, including:-

• Attending Employment Tribunals to take a note of hearings
• Creating and indexing documentary bundles required as evidence for Employment Tribunal claims
• Creating and ensuring safe transportation of highly sensitive documentation (including offsite delivery of sensitive documents to counsel/ clients/ courts)
• Liaison with solicitors, witnesses and tribunal offices
• Filing, labelling and locating documents within with our document management system (CMS)
• Management of documentary bundles as the litigation develops in preparation for Employment Tribunal hearings
• Undertaking relevant research
• Supporting the wider GLD’s business management community
• Arranging barristers and witnesses for meetings and taking notes where appropriate

This list is not exhaustive, and the successful candidates will be required to provide ad-hoc support where and when necessary.

Person specification

Essential criteria:

• Understanding and ability to deliver a high-quality administrative service.
• Experience of working with the full range of Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Change ways of working to aid cooperation within and between teams in order to achieve results .
• A proven track record of meeting tight and challenging deadlines .

Technical:

Familiar and comfortable with using IT, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.

Success Profiles:

Below are details of the Success Profiles that make up this role.

You will be expected to provide evidence to show how you meet the criteria at both application and/or interview stage.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £25,419, Government Legal Department contributes £6,863 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application & Selection Process:

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application accessed via the advertisement for this role. This should be completed no later than 11.55 am on Monday 31st July 2023 and will involve:

Step 1 - Complete your personal details on Civil Service Jobs .

Step 2 - Complete a personal statement and a behavioural statement.

A behavioural statement ( maximum 250 words ) explaining how did you maintain a quality of work under pressure , with reference to the behaviour below:

Managing a Quality Service (Lead Behaviour)

A Personal Statement ( maximum 500 words ) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

Your application should demonstrate how you meet the criteria for the post, with relevant examples. It will not be sufficient to reiterate the criteria; you are expected to illustrate how you have met the essential criteria.

Failure to submit either element will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria, and behaviours.

As part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the particular characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'.

The information you provide when submitting your application will help us to ensure that we are being an inclusive employer and a great place to work.

Step 3 - We will sift your application and if successful, we will invite you to attend an interview.

If we receive a high number of applications then we may sift on the lead behaviour only.

Further Information

This role requires the post holder will complete an office based induction 5 days a week over a 4 week period. Due to the nature of the role, office attendance is required 4 days a week following the induction period.

Reserve List

A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role or similar role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Candidate Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• UK nationals
• Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window) .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Faz Sheikh
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]