Accommodation Support

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

- 342401**Salary**:

- £28,119**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DVLA - Human Resources and Estates Directorate**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Estates
- Property**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- SwanseaAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Do you have an engaging and positive manner?

Are you able to show insight and confidence when delivering a message?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

**Job description**:
Accommodation Support isn't just about who sits where. The role covers a range of different aspects of accommodation, from facilitating and planning floor and people moves to providing insight and foresight to deliver strategic solutions to ensure the continued smooth running of Operational business.

The Accommodation team is a central function of the Agency, providing you with the bigger picture of the Agency, integrating different areas from accommodation planning to health and safety to overseeing moves to supporting the wellbeing of staff.

There will be line management responsibilities with this role.

**Responsibilities**

Key responsibilities of the role include:

- Accurately co-ordinating floor/people moves for Business Areas. Providing support to teams following moves, to ensure continued smooth running of Operational business.
- Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders/customers representing the unit at meetings providing expertise, advice and guidance.
- Liaising with relevant parties within own and other business areas to ensure that the impacts of change/improvements are co-ordinated, communicated and understood.
- Collating, monitoring and interpreting relevant information, providing reports where necessary.
- Monitoring space for effective and efficient utilisation.

For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
We would like you to have excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills. You will be able to drive meetings, confidently using your persuasive skills to influence and deliver results and successfully manage expectations by using data and using your awareness of the bigger picture that the Agency is working to.

You have working knowledge of Microsoft packages, specifically Excel and Word. You will have efficient organisational skills to manage your time and workload effectively.

You will need to be the type of person who embraces and enjoys change due to the ever changing environment and requirements of the accommodation team.

With a drive to deliver, you will embrace looking for innovative solutions, using knowledge to suggest alternatives whilst thinking strategically to fully understand and support the needs of the business. You will use your own initiative to ensure you understand processes and procedures.

Due to the nature of the role, it is essential you are flexible and adaptable to support the business as required.

**_ We strive to ensure that DVLA is a great place to work where everybody can be their true self, be treated with dignity and respect, and according to their individual needs. We have a number of staff network groups run by staff to support their colleagues._**

Due to the evolving nature of the business, vacancies can become available at any time. Therefore, this campaign may create a reserve list to fulfil demand if it arises which will be held for a period of 12 months.

This role will require you to work on-site at one of our designated offices.

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

- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits.
- Best in class learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
- Generous average employer contribution of 27%, depending on rate of salary and chosen pension scheme.
- 25 days holiday, increasing by one day each year up to 30 days pro rata.
- Access to the staff discount portal.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

There are many more opportunities and great benefits of working at DVLA, visit our Careers website for further information.

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**Selection process details**:

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

We need to understand how your skills and experience meet all the essential criteria for this role. You can use any part of your life to demonstrate your skills and experience, but it must be relevant to the rol