IT Compliance Support Officer

Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

Job Summary

Do you have an awareness of risk management, audit and compliance and experience of supporting compliance activity? If so, HM Land Registry (HMLR) now have an exciting opportunity for an IT Compliance Support Officer.

In this role you will help to provide assurance that HMLR remains compliant with international standards, industry best practices, regulation and government policy and to ensure progress against planned audits, compliance checks and other assurance activities including IT Security Policy compliance.

You will support the IT Compliance Manager in providing core evidence used for all compliance and audit activities.

Job Description

As an IT Compliance Support Officer, you will act as technical secretary for key assurance governance meetings, including the documenting and reporting of key compliance assets to stakeholders.

You will provide guidance and support to process owners and sponsors and assist in the maintenance of process assets to ensure that assets are kept under an adequate level of control. You will also assist IT Compliance Officers with audits to drive appropriate corrective and preventative actions and perform daily, monthly compliance monitoring tasks where required for key controls.

For more information, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

As an IT Compliance Support Officer, you will act as technical secretary for key assurance governance meetings, including the documenting and reporting of key compliance assets to stakeholders.

You will provide guidance and support to process owners and sponsors and assist in the maintenance of process assets to ensure that assets are kept under an adequate level of control. You will also assist IT Compliance Officers with audits to drive appropriate corrective and preventative actions and perform daily, monthly compliance monitoring tasks where required for key controls.

For more information, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will hold ISO9001, ISO27001 or ITIL practitioner certification; OR a willingness to work towards these. You also have an awareness of Government Functional Standards

You will have an awareness of risk management, audit and compliance, along with experience of supporting compliance activity.

You have excellent analytical skills with a proven ability to understand, interpret and make sense of complex and seemingly contradictory information and have proven communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written; in particular the ability to both understand and translate “technical jargon”.

Qualifications

ISO9001, ISO27001 or ITIL practitioner certification; OR a willingness to work towards.

Behaviours

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

• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving

Alongside your salary of £30,958, HM Land Registry contributes £8,968 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

To apply you will need to complete the short application form and take the online Civil Service Verbal Test. Ideally you should take the test as soon as possible to allow for the next stage of the application process. If successful, you will be invited to complete the full application form, to include your qualifications, skills and career history.

The Personal Statement Section (in No More Than 750 Words) Should Be Used To Demonstrate How You Meet The Following Essential Technical And Experience Criteria

• An awareness of Government Functional Standards; and in risk management, audit and compliance.
• Experience of supporting compliance activity.
• Excellent analytical skills with a proven ability to understand, interpret and make sense of complex and seemingly contradictory information.

In The Event Of a High Volume Of Applications For This Vacancy, An Initial Sift Will Be Conducted On The Lead Essential Experience Criteria

• An awareness of Government Functional Standards; and in risk management, audit and compliance.

Only those applications that pass the initial sift will be fully sifted.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ –once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.

The final stage will consist of a blended interview, which will be conducted either as a video interview using MS Teams or in person at our Plymouth office, Seaton Court, 2 William Prance Road, Plymouth, PL6 5WS.

We expect interviews to take place week commencing Monday 28 July and/or Monday 4 August 2025.

The blended interview will assess the essential experience and behaviours listed in the Job Description, as well as the strengths associated with the role.

We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application, including your CV, statement of suitability and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are offered an invitation to interview.

If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website

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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

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.

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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 (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission\’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

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.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission\’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

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.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Sharon Head
• Email : Sharon.Head@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/ #J-18808-Ljbffr