Job Description

Details

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Reference number

407962
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Salary

25,800 - 28,500
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP
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Job grade

Executive Officer###

Contract type

Permanent###

Business area

Governance###

Type of role

Administration / Corporate Support

Governance###

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time###

Number of jobs available

1

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

Location

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Nottingham City Centre, NG2 3NG

About the job

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Job summary

Do you want to be a driving force behind our governance, helping to shape decisions that help protect workers. We are currently seeking a dedicated

Secretariat Officer

to join our Strategy and Impact directorate.


In this dynamic position, you'll support senior leaders, colleagues and external stakeholders ensuring seamless communication, precise coordination, and efficient execution of board and committee functions. As the GLAA's Secretariat, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating high-level meetings, preparing agendas, and ensuring the smooth operation of our governance processes. Your attention to detail and organisational excellence will directly support our mission to stop worker exploitation.


This is more than administration, it's a chance to make a difference.

About the GLAA

At the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), we provide exceptional service to the public, businesses, and workers in the fight to stop worker exploitation. We are seeking inspiring leaders who can set clear direction, role model exemplary leadership behaviours, and deliver our vital services to our wide range of beneficiaries with a focus on efficiency and excellence. Building a culture of belonging, we are committed to providing an experience that is inclusive, equitable and kind. We prioritise diversity and believe in a culture rooted in collaboration, growth and team cohesion. Everyday, everyone on the team contributes to stopping worker exploitation.


The GLAA is one of the principal investigative law enforcement bodies for labour exploitation in the UK. The GLAA ensures that workers in the UK are treated fairly, properly and are protected from abuse and exploitation. We have three core functions:

Regulation

- We regulate businesses that provide workers to the horticulture, agriculture, shellfish gathering and food processing and packaging sector. Our regulatory work includes operating a licencing scheme, undertaking inspections to ensure compliance with that scheme, and taking enforcement action where there are breaches.

Prevention

- We work with a broad range of stakeholders locally, nationally, and internationally to help prevent workers from being exploited.

Enforcement

- We investigate allegations of worker abuse under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. GLAA Officers conduct civil and criminal investigations and take enforcement action, including prosecutions and court orders to disrupt criminal activity. We also support victims who have been abused, in particular by ensuring they can access specialist help from our partners. ###

Job description

For a range of committees and groups, the post holder may be expected to fulfil the following responsibilities:

Plan frequency, location, attendance the management of the GLAA meetings. Recommend, collate and commission agenda items. Commission, quality control (including formatting and corporate branding) and circulate papers. Take and distribute minutes including action and decision points. Track the production of papers. Circulate actions to action owners. Creation and circulation of Chair's Brief (to provide background and context). Creation, maintenance and progress tracking the Governance workplan. Maintain the Board's Register of Interests. Assist with onboarding new board members and arranging inductions. Act as point of contact for sponsor unit, Chair, Board members and Executive on matters relating to Board and sub-committee meetings.

These responsibilities apply to the following committees and groups:

GLAA Board Audit and Risk Committee (ARAC) Finance and Performance Committee (F&P) People and Culture Committee (P&C) Management Board Information Management Group (IMG) Strategy and Impact Directorate Meeting

Other support

Acting as support to the Executive Assistant when required in relation to activity for Board Committees. Ad hoc support to meetings or events as requested by the Governance, Planning and Impact Manager. To be an active member of the governance team. Work closely with others responsible for administrative duties to ensure consistency and efficiency. Ad hoc support to cover essential Governance mailboxes when required.

We are currently underrepresented by female, transgender, non binary, ethnic minority and disabled colleagues, and are keen to change this, so welcome applications from all parts of the communities we serve.

Things you need to know

The Government's plan to Make Work Pay included a commitment to establish a single enforcement body to enforce workers' rights, including strong powers to inspect workplaces and take action against exploitation. Bringing together state enforcement for workers' rights will better support businesses who want to comply with the rules, create a strong, recognisable single brand so individuals know where to go for help, and lead to a more effective use of resources and coordinated enforcement action. Bringing state employment enforcement together will create a single executive agency of the Department for Business and Trade known as the Fair Work Agency (FWA). The FWA will bring together the enforcement bodies - HMRC's National Minimum Wage enforcement function (HMRC NMW), the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS), the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) and the Director of Labour Markets (DLME) strategic functions.

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Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential and desirable criteria below:

Essential:

Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure Ability to organise own time to ensure tasks are completed Experience of and the ability to manage the planning and accurate minute taking for multiple meetings Good written and oral communication skills An ability to build and maintain constructive working relationships and communicate confidently at all levels IT literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office products. An eye for detail to ensure records are accurate Accurate and assertive action tracking Flexible and resilient approach to shifting priorities

Desirable:

Understanding of the Regulatory Framework and the role of licensing within it Understanding of ALB government structures and operational requirements

All offers are subject to satisfactory references, DBS and security clearance (BPSS).

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Behaviours

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


Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Seeing the Big Picture Working Together

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 25,800, Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority contributes 7,474 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We offer a generous total package to our employees which includes the following:

32.5 days annual leave in addition to 8 public holidays Flexible public holiday scheme Choice of pension schemes, including access to the extremely generous Civil Service Pension, which also provides a death in service lump sum payment and a survivor's pension payment Annual performance related bonus scheme Access to employee discounts Access to a wellbeing portal Employee assistance programme Access to mental health first aiders within the organisation Flexibility for working hours through the Flexitime scheme Hybrid working available Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits Commitment to employee development We're proud to be an Endometriosis Friendly Employer

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Selection process details

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

Application Information

As part of your application, you will be invited to complete an anonymised CV (including your career history, qualifications and experience), and a Personal Statement (up to 1000 words) which demonstrates how you meet the

Essential and Desirable Criteria

listed in the person specification.

Application Guidance

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a personal statement https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-apply/

Sift Information

At Sift you will be assessed on your CV and your Personal Statement.


The Sift will take place during w/c

16th June 2025

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Interview Information

At Interview you will be assessed on the following behaviours:

Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Seeing the Big Picture Working Together

Interviews will take place at the

GLAA Office in Nottingham

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3rd July 2025.

Travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

AI Tools & Platforms

During the application process candidates are allowed to utilise AI (artificial intelligence) platforms and Tools to support them in writing their CV's and Personal Statements. However, all information submitted must be factually accurate. This includes presenting the ideas and experience of others, or those generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. All presented information will be assessed at the Interview Stage.



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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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
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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
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.###

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 .

Apply and further information

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The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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

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Job contact :

Name : recruitment@gla.gov.uk Email : recruitment@gla.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

Email : recruitment@gla.gov.uk ###

Further information

Please visit https://www.gla.gov.uk/who-we-are/complaints/complaints-procedure-external/ for further details on our complaints procedure