Salary
£33,481
Salary will be pro rata as part time. 0.6 FTE 22 hours per week. The successful candidate should expect to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Location
We offer great flexible working opportunities, here is our office in Belfast.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked in Northern Ireland and not overseas.
Regular travel within NI, GB and Internationally as required, possibly with overnight stays.
About the job
Job summary
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is a small government department with a big mission: to keep food safe, ensure it is what it says it is, and that’s it’s increasingly healthy and more sustainable. Food fraud represents a serious threat to the safety of consumers across the country, and we are always working proactively and reactively to ensure that everyone has access to ‘food you can trust’.
We are looking for a Food Fraud Assistant who can help us deliver the tasks that ensure this important part of our function is successful while supporting our wider food incidents response. You’ll work to support our Food Fraud Liaison Officer as they deliver intelligence led investigations, disseminating key intelligence to partner organisations so that we can effectively prepare our response to occurring and potential threats to food safety.
Job description
You’ll brief senior managers, prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders, and provide additional support to teams across the National Food Crime Unit and the Consumer Protection Team.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to use your experience in investigative environments to help us deliver something that impacts lives across the country every single day. We all eat, and you can be part of our work to make sure that the food on our tables is safe. If you are excited by the chance to work collaboratively to support this mission, apply today to join the FSA as our Food Fraud Assistant.
Working pattern guidance
Applicants who wish to work compressed hours are welcome to apply - however your preferred working pattern may not be available, and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.
Please read before applying
As this is an investigatory / intelligence role we need to be aware if any of our employees have any of the following: any misconduct or gross misconduct findings or where proceedings are not complete. You will be asked to complete a declaration form covering the above if offered a role with the FSA.
You must declare to the best of your knowledge:
- Any disciplinary finding of guilt / failure to meet the appropriate standard of conduct relating to your employment you have ever had
- Any charge of a disciplinary offence / notification of a failure to meet the appropriate standards you have ever had where the case has not yet been concluded
The disclosure of this information will not automatically disbar you from this role but we need to be aware of any event or issue which could impinge on your credibility if questioned in court.
Person specification
Please read the Candidate Pack to discover further details about the role, our organisation, who we are looking for and the criteria we will assess against during the selection process.
We look forward to receiving your application and wish you every success.
Licences
Driving licence with use of a car
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Delivering at Pace
Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £33,481, Food Standards Agency contributes £9,699 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Our candidate pack details the benefits that the FSA has to offer. Please also refer to the attached Terms and Conditions statement.
For further information including a Candidate Pack and to submit your application, click APPLY NOW.