Compliance and Administration Officer (Headquarters, Maidstone)

Location of Role: Maidstone

Advert Closing Date: 04/08/2026

Starting Salary: £27,492.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Part Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Other (see advert text)

Weekend/Evening Working: No

An exciting opportunity has become available for a driven and dedicated administrator with a strong eye for detail and proven experience in commercial property compliance and/or commercial property support. We are looking for an experienced Administrative Officer to join our Estate & Facilities Services team, to play a vital role in ensuring our estate remains fully compliant with legislative, regulatory and policy requirements, and receives high-quality administrative support.

The main duties will include:

• Supporting the Compliance & Governance Manager with key oversight and data management of the Force’s statutory compliance within Estate & Facilities Services, including recording, tracking and reporting progress and performance against targets.
• Contractor Management of site access across the county, managing shared email accounts to ensure our Contractors, Staff and visitors remain safe and accountable whilst on force premises.
• Reviewing and updating policies and SOPs/processes to ensure documentation remains accurate, current and aligned to operational need.
• Monitoring, maintaining and updating the departmental risk register, escalating significant risks where required.
• Managing departmental databases and document libraries, ensuring accuracy, consistency and clear audit trails.
• Effective communication, including updating intranet pages, managing enquiries and ensuring colleagues across the Force remain informed of developments that may affect their areas.
• Providing proactive, high quality administrative support to the estates team.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Competence and strong confidence in using Microsoft Office applications. Additional business analytical software is a plus.
• Tenacity, ownership, proactivity and problem solving skills, in delivering high quality administrative support.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills and attention to detail, including data reporting and planning.
• Understanding of the general principles of compliance in an Estate setting.
• Ability to work and communicate collaboratively across teams and functions.
• Awareness of the basic principles of Health & Safety.

This role requires regular office attendance of at least once a week and covers Wednesday, Thursday and Friday working days. This role may require travel to/working from other locations within the County on occasion.

If you have any queries, please contact Emma Lewis via email: emma.lewis@kent.police.uk

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £31,731.00.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status. Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.