Executive Officer
Location: Leeds (Hybrid Working)
Pay: £14.01 per hour, rising to £15.17 per hour after 12 weeks have been completed in your assignment
Job Type: Temporary
Sector: Public Sector
Hours: Monday - Friday (37 hours per week)
About the Role
We are currently recruiting for an Executive Officer to join the Ministry of Justice's Project Delivery Function Management Office (PDFMO).
This is a varied and rewarding role supporting the delivery of learning and development activities, stakeholder engagement, and the day-to-day running of the Project Delivery Function. You'll work closely with colleagues across the Ministry of Justice and wider government, helping to ensure key activities, events, and programmes run smoothly.
No two days are the same, making this an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys organisation, problem-solving, and working with a wide range of stakeholders.
What You'll Be Doing
Your duties may include but not be limited to:
- Coordinating training courses, workshops, meetings, and events.
- Managing learning and development requests and maintaining training records.
- Raising purchase orders and supporting budget tracking activities.
- Monitoring and responding to enquiries through shared inboxes.
- Maintaining trackers, reports, and management information.
- Supporting Power BI reporting and data management activities.
- Arranging travel, accommodation, and meeting logistics.
- Managing calendars, actions, and key deadlines.
- Building positive working relationships with stakeholders across MOJ and wider government.
- Providing general administrative and business support to the wider team.
You may also support wider engagement activities, communications, and ad hoc projects as required.
What We're Looking For
- Highly organised and able to manage a busy workload.
- Confident communicating with a wide range of people.
- Comfortable working with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Power BI and Excel.
- Proactive and able to work independently.
- Professional, reliable, and adaptable.
- A strong team player with excellent attention to detail.
- Committed to delivering high-quality customer and stakeholder support.
Desirable Experience
- Managing shared inboxes and coordinating responses.
- Maintaining spreadsheets, trackers, and reporting information.
- Supporting learning and development activities.
- Working with Power BI or similar reporting tools.
- Providing business support within a project, programme, or corporate environment.
Additional Information
Regular travel may occasionally be required to support meetings, events, and project activities at Ministry of Justice locations.
This is a hybrid role with a minimum expectation of two days per week in the Leeds office
Brook Street is 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.
