Higher Executive Officer

Job Description

Higher Executive Officer - DEFRA

Location: York (Hybrid 3 days in the office minimum a week)

Pay: 16.64 per hour

Job Type: Temporary

Sector: Public Sector

Hours: 37 hours a week (Monday - Friday, 8-4 or 9-5)

A Little Bit About Us:

Brook Street have grown into one of the UK's leading recruitment agencies matching thousands of people with meaningful job opportunities at more than 4,500 companies every year. Delivering a quality service to suit the needs of clients and candidates alike was important to our founder Margery Hurst and it remains important to us today.

Recruitment is about so much more than just filling job vacancies. It's about giving people the chance to unleash their full potential, through their perfect new role.

About the Client:

We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries.

What Will Be Your Day to Day Responsibilities?

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Awarding grants and contracts that are relevant to the DEFRA organisation
• Influence operational commercial decisions at an operational level in a grant or procurement discipline
• Work with stakeholders in a commercial environment and appropriately influence or question to ensure the best results
• Communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders (at all levels) both in a technical and non-technical environment
• Effectively inspect financial and non-financial information
• Effectively complete your due diligence and study fraud risk in project proposals.
• Deliver improvements to ways of working that will make a lasting positive change

What's in this for you?

Applying for a Higher Executive Officer role in grant allocation offers the chance to make a tangible impact through effective resource allocation, strategic decision-making, and management development. It provides valuable networking opportunities, fosters partnerships, and promotes continuous learning in addressing societal needs, ultimately contributing to career advancement and positive social change.

Please note we are seeing a large volume of applications per role and therefore we ask that if you have not heard 7-14 working days to presume you have on this occasion been unsuccessful.

Diversity in the workplace:

Brook Street are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.