Corporate Assurance Officer - Legal Aid Agency

Please note that whilst this role is open to all Civil Servants, you can only apply for London, Cambridge and Brighton offices if you are a current LAA staff member based in those offices. This is due to and in line with the LAA's Location Strategy and the Cabinet Office's Places for Growth Strategy.

• Please note If you are successful, this role requires National Security Vetting at CTC level, in addition to our standard pre-employment checks.
To obtain CTC clearance, you must meet the current National Security Vetting residency requirements. Under Central Government policy, applicants must normally have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years to be eligible for this level of clearance. Minimum Working Pattern: If you are applying for a part-time role, please note that to meet business demands we need cover for a minimum of 21 hours and to cover at least 3 days of the week, with a working pattern that includes Fridays. To meet legal requirements, if you are between the ages 16-18 and you are a successful candidate, you will be required to complete an apprenticeship after your initial on the job training. The Legal Aid Agency We are an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). We are responsible for operationally administering the legal aid fund to provide criminal and civil legal aid advice to people in England and Wales. Our people are at the heart of achieving excellence. Employing around 1,200 colleagues across England and Wales, we feel proud to have some of the best People Survey results in the Civil Service. Corporate Assurance, Risk and Secretariat Team The CARS team combines the 5 functions of Health & Safety, Information & Data Security, Business Continuity, Risk and Secretariat to collectively strengthen and support the LAA's governance, our assurance strategies, risk management processes and provide support to the LAA's senior governance forums including the Board and Executive Leadership Team., The Corporate Assurance Officer works across multiple functions to provide administrative support as required. The role has particular emphasis on managing key assurance meetings, maintaining action logs and following up responses, supporting incident management processes and managing several shared mailboxes., Managing CARS team shared mailboxes, acting as a point of contact, triaging incoming mail, responding to routine queries and escalating other matters appropriately. Providing secretarial support to working groups and committees including but not limited to, Information, Risk and Security Working Group and Risk & Assurance Working Group. Support will include taking minutes, coordinating meetings, maintaining action logs and facilitating the work of these committees. Providing support to LAA's incident response process, standing up incident response meetings, taking minutes, preparing and maintaining action logs, providing briefing notes and assisting with post-incident processes such as lessons learned exercises. Logging and managing responses to routine security incidents, escalating non-routine incidents as required. Acting as an administrator for H&S training, assessment and record systems. Maintaining records of and facilitating inductions for new LAA staff Providing support to Information Assurance, Health & Safety, Business Continuity, Risk and Assurance functions as required for specific projects and exercises to support the work of a CARS function or wider CARS team objectives Other work as required to support the overall objectives of CARS.

Excellent organisational and planning skills; The ability to prioritise effectively to deliver at pace to tight deadlines and competing priorities; Effective interpersonal and influencing skills to engage and build relationships with key stakeholders; Ability to manage upwards; Attention to detail with a commitment to delivering excellence in all work. Desirable Knowledge, Experience and skills Knowledge of LAA business processes Knowledge of LAA stakeholders Experience of minute taking or committee administration Person Specification This role would suit a highly organised individual with good attention to detail who is able to manage their own workload and prioritise against competing deadlines. Assessment approach