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Job Post Details

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Parliamentary Officer - job post

Home Office
3.4 out of 5 stars
Westminster
£36,110 - £37,193 a year - Permanent, Full-time
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Job details

Pay

  • £36,110 - £37,193 a year

Job type

  • Permanent
  • Full-time

Location

Westminster

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description

  • Annual leave
  • Company pension

Full job description

Details

Reference number

466893

Salary

£36,110 - £37,193
GBP

Job grade

Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HO - Chief Operating Officer Group

Type of role

Policy

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

  • Location
  • About the job
  • Benefits
  • Things you need to know
  • Apply and further information

Location

Westminster

About the job

Job summary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Chief Operating Officer Group works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The group is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Private Office and Parliament directorate, working at the centre of the department’s parliamentary engagement and legislative delivery.

We are recruiting two EO roles, managing a Parliamentary Questions portfolio and oversight of the department’s written collective agreement process.

The team plays a critical role in ensuring the Home Office meets its obligations to Parliament and Cabinet. The roles sit at the heart of fast-paced, high-volume work with daily parliamentary and No10 deadlines, requiring strong organisation, judgement, and the ability to work effectively under pressure. Both post holders will work closely with policy teams, private offices, and special advisers, helping to ensure that submissions, parliamentary questions, and collective agreement processes are delivered on time and to a high standard. The roles offer excellent exposure to senior stakeholders and provide a strong foundation for development into a variety of roles across the Civil Service.

Job description

Role 1: Parliamentary Questions

The post holder will support delivery of the department’s Parliamentary Questions (PQ) process, helping to ensure responses are commissioned, drafted, cleared, and submitted within required deadlines.

In this role, the post holder will manage a portfolio of PQs, working with policy teams to track progress, resolve issues, and ensure timely clearance through ministers and special advisers. This is a business-critical role which contributes directly to the department meeting its service standard for answering PQs.

Role 2: Write-Round Co-ordination

The post holder will support the co-ordination of the department’s written collective agreement (write-round) process, ensuring effective oversight and delivery. They will help manage the end-to-end process, including tracking submissions, co-ordinating input from across the department, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring outputs meet Cabinet Office requirements.

Responsibilities

Role 1: Parliamentary Questions

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Managing a portfolio of Parliamentary Questions, including commissioning responses, tracking progress, and ensuring deadlines are met;
  • Working with policy teams and private offices to move draft responses through clearance processes, including ministerial and special adviser sign-off;
  • Identifying and resolving issues to ensure timely delivery, escalating risks where appropriate;
  • Providing advice and guidance to officials on PQ processes and requirements; and
  • Supporting wider parliamentary activity, including contributing to briefing and coordination where required.

Role 2: Write-Round Co-ordination

Key responsibilities will include:

  • providing central oversight of the department’s written collective agreement process, forward planning and managing the pipeline of write rounds and maintaining grip of timelines and dependencies;
  • liaising with teams across the department to gather and manage contributions, ensuring timely delivery;
  • maintaining accurate records, version control, and audit trails, ensuring compliance with Cabinet Office guidance
  • quality assuring submissions to ensure consistency, completeness, and adherence to required formats; and
  • supporting broader team responsibilities, including corporate activity.

Other work and projects may also be required across both roles, including supporting wider parliamentary business and legislative activity.

Working pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.

Location

Both posts are based in 2 Marsham Street, London. The team also spends time in both Houses of Parliament and the wider parliamentary estate.

Person specification

Essential criteria

  • Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work to tight deadlines.
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced, high-profile environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with attention to detail.
  • Ability to build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
  • Good judgement and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify and escalate risks appropriately.

Desirable criteria

  • Previous experience working on parliamentary processes.

Behaviours

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

  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

  • Working Together

Benefits

In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
  • In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
  • 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
  • Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
  • Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
  • See more of our benefits on our careers website.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

As part of the application process, you will first be asked to confirm your eligibility by providing some basic personal information.

After submission of this first stage, you will be invited to complete the following Civil Service judgement test and Verbal reasoning test.

  • Online Test – by 8th July 2026.

If you successfully pass the judgement & verbal reasoning tests, you will be invited to complete the full application form. Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended). If you fail to complete the online tests or full application before the deadline, your application will be withdrawn.

Guidance for the Civil Service tests will be available when you are invited to take the tests. The online tests are accessed via the Civil Service Jobs website.

You cannot complete the tests on a mobile phone or tablet.

Following successful completion of your tests, you will then be asked to complete the full application form.

2. Application – by 8th July 2026.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

  • CV
  • Personal Statement (maximum 500 words).
  • Evidence of the Behaviour - working together (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour).

Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.

The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.

For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.

3. Sift – 10th July 2026.

The sift will be held on the Personal Statement, CV, Behaviour as listed in the advert.

Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the Lead Behaviour. Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift that will consist of all the remaining elements submitted (Personal Statement & CV). Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the initial sift will not have their remaining submitted elements scored and will only receive a sift score for that assessed at the initial sift.

4.Interview – 31st July 2026.

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) based questions. All Behaviours listed in the selection process will be scored at the interview.

The interview will take place in person, in London 2 Marsham Street (2MS). Further details will be provided ahead of interview. Please note travel costs will not be reimbursed.

For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.

Problems during the application process

If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.

Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.

Location preference

You will only be able to select a single location preference so please ensure this is a location that you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at your preferred location and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.

Breaking Tied Scores

The behaviours have been ranked in order of importance to enable us to differentiate between candidates with tied interview scores.

Standards

All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.

Additional Security Checks

As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. The level of Criminal Record Check required for this role is [BASIC]. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.

Further Information

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.

If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

Reasonable Adjustments

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

  • Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
  • Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

Feedback


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Home Office resourcing centre
  • Email : HORCCampaignTeamCorporateEnablers@homeoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. and you wish to make a complaint, then contact the Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.
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