Compliance Officer in Brighton

We are looking for a highly organised and detail‑focused Compliance Officer to join our Skills and Employment team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of high-quality adult learning and skills provision across the city.

Contract type: This role is fixed term. Fixed term end date 31 July 2027. Interviews to be held: To be confirmed.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Process learner evidence and related documentation within agreed timescales.
• Act as the main point of contact for training provider enquiries, enrolments, and compliance procedures.
• Manage invoices, purchase orders and other financial processes.
• Maintain accurate data through departmental systems, spreadsheets and management information platforms.
• Support content creation for newsletters, web updates and social media to promote adult learning opportunities.
• Prepare information for ILR returns and audit requirements.
• Provide wider administrative support such as minute‑taking, managing SharePoint files and scheduling observations.

This role is varied, fast‑paced and highly rewarding — ideal for someone who enjoys accuracy, structure and working with others.

About You

• Has experience working in an administrative compliance environment.
• Is confident using databases and systems for caseload or data management.
• Has experience with financial processes such as invoicing or POs.
• Communicates clearly with colleagues, providers and the public.
• Can prioritise a busy workload and remain calm under pressure.
• Is proficient in Microsoft Office and comfortable managing digital content.
• Brings a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in everything they do.

If you like solving problems, keeping processes running smoothly, and ensuring things are done correctly first time — this could be the role for you.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to: For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.