Quality Assurance Coordinator

**Assurance Coordinator Inside IR35**

**Contract Term: 5 months**

**Contracting Authority: The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office**

**Location: Hybrid Working (3-4 days per week office based - Glasgow/London)**

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DfID) merged on 1 September 2020 to form the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

The FCDO pursues our national interests and projects the UK as a force for good in the world. We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.

**Job Purpose**:
We are looking for a competent and motivated person to develop and implement a complementary set of in-year and end-year assurance activities, processes and systems; support directorates across the FCDO and overseas posts and second line policy owners to embed FCDO’s control framework and gain assurance that controls are operating effectively.

In 2021/22, FCDO launched the Management Assurance Process (MAP), which facilitates assurance for the operation of policies and processes across all functional areas, such as HR, Finance, Estates etc. The post holder will help to raise awareness of the internal control framework and support teams to embed it in their processes. They will also advise teams on how they can gain assurance for themselves and implement central assurance activities.

**As an Assurance Coordinator, your main responsibilities would be**:

- Coordinating the Management Assurance Process, and in conjunction with the team leader, analyse UK directorates and overseas posts’ returns.
- Working with policy teams to embed assurance activities within 2nd line policy teams, and to agree key controls and assurance criteria to include in the end year MAP commission template/questionnaire.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with corporate and programme policy teams, DG and Directors’ outer offices to support teams to design and implement in-year assurance processes
- Maintain strong relationships with the directorate-level Assurance Lead community, communicating updates regularly and ensuring that the end year MAP commission lands well across FCDO.
- Supporting the team leader to draft the Annual Assurance Report and help present the findings to the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee and supporting the development of the Accounting Officer Systems Statement (AOSS).
- Developing and delivering training and awareness and outreach activities for MAP stakeholders.
- Reviewing, improving, and building upon the control and assurance framework to continually drive standards of assurance and compliance up across the department

**You’ll have relevant experience in**:

- Handling information
- Data handling
- Coordinating
- Managing information
- Producing information
- Prior experience of managing information
- Working with spreadsheets and information in data base
- Working with others - stakeholder engagement
- Ability to absorb and manage information
- Work as part of the team
- Active SC Clearance is a must for this role

**If this Assurance Coordinator role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.**
- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 5 months

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: On the road