The Crown Prosecution Service is recruiting a governance officer across England and Wales. If you’re looking for a career with real purpose, this is an opportunity for you.

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for someone with working knowledge of a wide range of portfolio or programme management activities and functions, such as creating milestone plans, managing dependency logs, quality assurance, risk and benefit management frameworks. Proficiency in the use of various IT systems such as SharePoint, MS Office and Power BI is essential.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a governance officer, you play a key role in ensuring the Digital Information Division delivers a high standard of governance services. You support the rollout and maintenance of the relevant processes and tools necessary for effective portfolio management tracking and reporting. You maintain a pipeline plan of new demand alongside existing portfolio change activities. You provide cover to the wider portfolio management team on a range of governance activities such as benefits management and risks.

At the Crown Prosecution Service, we pride ourselves on providing benefits that ensure our employees’ needs are central. We want to ensure you can thrive at work and home, offering support to achieve a balance. This includes flexible working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a family-friendly approach to work. We also offer a range of benefits including:

• flexible and family-friendly working         
• competitive salary      
• Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.9%     
• 25 days leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays       
• 3 days paid volunteering leave         
• an extra privilege day for the King’s birthday        
• £350 a year individual learning budget           
• wellbeing support and counselling     
• Cycle2work scheme, high street retailer offers and discounts