Border Force

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 273942**Salary**:

- £25,750 - £27,650**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- BFO (Border Force Officer)**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Borders and Enforcement - Border Force**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Manston - RamsgateAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Please note - You must be over 18, hold a full valid manual driving licence and a UK national for these roles.**

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair, and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counterterrorism, policing, fire, crime, nationality, and immigration policy.

As part of the Home Office, Border Force is responsible for securing the UK border 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Around 10,000 people work for us, with the majority working in frontline roles in airports and seaports across the UK and overseas.

This is a great opportunity to join a team that really makes a difference and you will receive comprehensive law enforcement training depending on the team you join. The job is varied and rewarding and as part of the Home Office and wider Civil Service there are plenty of opportunities to develop your career with us.

You can find out more about Home Office careers here.

**Job description**:
Border Force check all passengers and freight arriving in the UK by air and sea and conduct intelligence-led searches for prohibited, counterfeit or restricted goods such as drugs, firearms, weapons, cash, tobacco, and alcohol. We also support the department’s wider agenda in high-profile areas such as counter terrorism, tackling organised crime, modern slavery, and human trafficking. This is some of the most important and challenging work in Government and its impact can be felt in communities across the UK.

**Manston Operations Private Office Business Support**

The work of the Manston Operations Command includes:

- Working across the borders and immigration systems to support the UK Returns campaign including special operations and the Migration and Economic Development Partnership and other strategic priorities.

The Executive Officer role within the Private Office of the Director of Manston is a new role that provides administrative support in a highly ambiguous, unclear and evolving environment. The Private Office ensures that the Director is fully supported in all delivery aspects of health, welfare and accommodation services at Manston Processing Centre.

The roles are based in Executive Support, Business and Finance, Communications and Briefing, and Workforce Planning.

This is a full-time role due to business needs and some travel overseas and across the UK may be expected.

**Person specification**:
In the **Executive Support **role you will be required to:

- Support the Deputy/Chief of Staff in regular meetings taking minutes and notes and taking action points forward.
- Undertake daily diary management and regular inbox monitoring, preparing briefings and commissions as required.
- Processing and organising travel bookings, expenses, room bookings/car park arrangements etc.
- Other administrative tasks as needed.

For the **Business and Finance** role you will be required to:

- Develop internal governance controls and work closely with other Manston and Border Force teams to develop financial controls.
- Provide finance reporting whilst ensuring compliance with Home Office systems.
- Ensure receipts and requests to purchase are recorded correctly and that colleagues have the right level of budgetary approval so Manston Services operate efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure the Manston Team are properly equipped the equipment they need to deliver their roles effectively.
- Work closely with Manston Estates to deliver timely reports of planned and projected works at Manston.
- Other administrative tasks as needed

For the **Communications and Briefing** role you will be required to:

- Build good relationships with other Private Offices, co-ordinate and oversee all commissions and briefings associated with Manston and where appropriate draft responses.
- Develop a repository for all Manston communications and maintain good records of Freedom of Information requests, Parliamentary Questions and third party recommendations whilst ensuring actions are progressed.
- Undertake regular reporting of all communications to the Manston Senior Leadership Team.
- Prepare draft communications for internal colleagues ensuring Manston teams are briefed and where necessary draft Director’s notes.
- Contribute to development of a Communications Strategy that builds good communications with internal and external stakeholders.
- Other administrative tasks as needed.

For the **Work Force Planning** role you will be required to:

- Manage HO work force planning systems, and ensure HO colleagues comply with HO polici