We currently have two vacancies within our Pesticide Operational Support Team.

You could be working in a team supporting scientists with their work or responding to requests from stakeholders on their applications.

These posts give you the opportunity to support scientific staff on progressing the authorisation of applications for the approval of pesticides or industrial chemicals and managing the delivery of approval/authorisation of pesticide active substances and products.

We also have teams involved in the evaluation of data submitted in support of applications for approval of pesticides in the UK.

As an Administrative Support Officer your responsibilities will include:

• You will be responsible for the receipt of applications, authorisation processing and issuing invoices.
• You will assist in maintaining quality in authorisation, amendment and withdrawal notices issued following applications from the pesticides industry decisions.
• You will be the administrator of internal CRD databases.
• You will support CRDs records and data management functions, including carrying out records reviews.
• You will respond to telephone and written enquiries, requests for advice from colleagues in CRD, members of public and other organisations.
• You will be involved in general administrative duties and other work as directed by the team leader.

We are looking for motivated and dedicated customer focused people to join the team to play an important role in ensuring that HSE / BSR provides a professional response to Health and Safety Concerns, RIDDOR reports and Advice requests, within strict deadlines.

Working in The Customer Service Team, your role will be to assess / Triage RIDDOR’s and health and safety concerns, contact businesses and customers, to ensure cases are resolved in line with expectations and service levels.

You will be responsible for processing your assigned work, and making an assessment on the most appropriate regulatory response. You will work collaboratively with internal and external customers to obtain accurate and relevant information. You will ensure that responses are professional, accurate and timely.

In this exciting role, you will support our Portfolio Management Office by providing administrative and secretarial support to the Portfolio Management Office team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone that has solid administrative skills, is organised, can take ownership of tasks and is keen to develop in the world of project and portfolio management.

As part of the PMO Team your main duties will be:

• Organise and attend governance meetings to provide accurate and timely written records of minutes, actions and decisions for distribution to meeting attendees
• Plan and organise workshops, events and away days (supported and mentored by more senior staff), including checking availability of required attendees, booking meeting rooms and facilities, and distributing associated papers in advance and after meetings
• Communicating across the Division to prompt and gather information
• Maintain portfolio documentation whilst adhering to version control and assist with making revisions to templates, standard documentation and frameworks
• Monitor the PMO mailbox and ensure that queries received are answered in a timely manner – including referral of queries to other team members as needed
• Assist with revisions of the PMO SharePoint site and ensure it is populated with the most up to date tools and templates
• Involvement in wider PMO or Portfolio initiatives, e.g., involvement in working groups and activities to support the continuous development and improvement of work processes
• Supporting and delivering elements of team training and PMO inductions for new PMO team members
• Provide ad hoc support (e.g., arranging travel and stationery)
• Other Duties – To deliver services effectively, a degree of flexibility is required, and the post holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. Such duties, however, should not normally exceed those expected of an employee at that grade.

You will lead the finance business partnering function, providing quality insight, challenge and rigour across the organisation to deliver operational and corporate activity targets within accurate financial forecasts.

You will also lead on Strategic Finance within HSE, overseeing multi-year financial planning. This will include the preparation for Spending Reviews as well as providing financial support to HSE’s major programmes. You will manage the activity-based costing system and HSE’s costing and pricing policy to support its Fees and Charges.

As part of your role you will:

• Develop and maintain the medium term (3-year rolling) financial strategy and budgets linked to the activity based costing and other supporting plans (e.g. workforce, estates, IT etc).  These will be reviewed quarterly with Directors to inform strategic decision making and ensure HSE makes optimal use of the available resources and/or takes early mitigating actions, where necessary.  This information will inform Spending Reviews and other prioritisation decisions taken by the Executive Committee.
• Provide leadership to the business partnering teams, empowering them to develop new ways of working concentrating on reducing transactional activity and focussing on challenging the business robustly and adding value through insight.
• Develop the Business Partners into one team using consistent standards and processes whilst developing a resilience to ensure service delivery across all divisions.
• Provide financial leadership on divisional business planning and budgeting, through continually improving a process that is fully integrated and links prioritisation, business planning, cost drivers, resource, cost recovery income and works closely with the Financial Management and Performance teams.
• Lead the business partnering team through the monthly forecasting process, undertaking the initial challenge of the financial position to understand the drivers of the forecasts together with the risks and opportunities.
• Work with divisions to understand their requirements and using best practice to remove wasted effort and duplication in processes including business cases, prioritisation, budgeting and forecasting.
• Reviewing the key outputs of the business partner team to identify further improvements as well as coaching and supporting them to deliver a high-quality service.
• Lead the activity-based costing across divisions through business partners, identifying improvement opportunities for key cost drivers and ensuring Fees and Charges are laid in Parliament.