Contract: PermanentHours: Full time, Part time, FlexibleSalary: £34,113 - £38,325 paLocation: Edinburgh and London
Do you offer excellent administrative and document management skills and the ability to line manage junior colleagues? Do you have the ambition to progress into a management role in a world leading organisation?
Join the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Cartels Enforcement Team and play a key role supporting our work to make a positive impact on the UK economy and society.
About the CMA
We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.
The CMA Cartels Enforcement Team play a key role by uncovering and investigating hardcore cartel agreements and abuses of dominant positions. Our investigations vary greatly in subject and are generally high-profile and analytically challenging.
The role
As Casework Support Manager you will be responsible for supporting a variety of CMA cases and the day-to-day management, supervision and development of Casework Support Officers.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the management of documents (paper and electronic) for cases and investigations
- MMaintaining task allocation spreadsheets and project plans/trackers
- aking and recording assessments on confidentiality of information
- Logging correspondence and evidence
- Preparing case files for inspection by external parties
- Acting as an initial point of contact for a range of internal and external stakeholders, such as witnesses, parties to investigations, police, and other government departments
Other aspects of the role will vary with different cases but may include drafting documents and correspondence, supporting research and the analysis of evidence.
You will have direct responsibility for managing, training and supporting the development of Casework Support Officers, ensuring they are actively supported in developing their knowledge and experience and trained in accordance with casework guides.
You will also support the planning, preparation and execution of investigation steps. This will include preparing and participating in on-site inspections and ensuring that evidence handling procedures are properly observed and acting as a key point of contact for case teams.
What you will need
Previous legal experience is not essential for this role. What is important is experience of using organisational systems and procedures for case or document management as well as an understanding of handling confidential information.
You will need excellent organisation, planning and time management skills to deliver results with limited resources, within challenging deadlines, as well as the ability to line manage and support the development of more junior team members.
Experience of carrying out in-depth analysis of documents, with the ability to identify breaches of guidance and identify confidential information is equally important.
What we can offer you
The CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work - an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so while also having considerable flexibility when it comes to how and when you work. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme.
To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.
Closing date for applications: 23:55pm Monday 5th February 2024.
Interviews will take place during the week commencing 19th February 2024.
Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.
The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.