TFM Contract and Compliance Officer

445204 TFM Contract and Compliance Officer

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 30th January 2026

📍 Location: Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: £30,485 – A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for the management of contracts ensuring buildings are compliant. The Estate current covers over 400 properties across the UK.

The role holder will undertake site visits regularly to manage the facilities, ensuring that the main buildings are meeting regulations and assisting your colleagues with any challenges they are facing with their facilities.

The successful candidate’s focus will be to manage and monitor contractor works undertaken, ensuring the work completed is compliant and up to standard. You will play a key part in monitoring the performance of our suppliers, flagging any non-compliant works undertaken is communicated directly to contractors.

Top Responsibilities

Undertake site visits to ensure the service provided by the facilities contractor meets the standard set out in the contract specification.
Ensuring that any sub-standard work is raised in the compliance visit report and escalated through appropriate channels as necessary.
Assist in the management of the Total Facilities Management contract by adhering to the timelines agreed for reports and escalations.
Undertake Ad hoc tasks and meetings as required to improve contract performance.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
Access to the staff discount portal.
Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

Experience of building and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues and external
contractors / customers.
Experience of reviewing data, drawing conclusions and reporting it back to the business
Experience of using your organisational skills to complete a task / project to agreed timescales.

There will be a development opportunity for you to gain the following qualifications whilst in post, if not already held: