Staff Officer to the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (Kelvedon Park/Agile Working)

Location of Role: Kelvedon 

Advert Closing Date: 22/10/2025 

Starting Salary: £40,890.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri with occasional evening/weekends 

Weekend/Evening Working: Yes 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Staff Officer to provide a comprehensive support and daily business management service to the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) and assist them with their programmes of work both locally and nationally. 

The successful candidate will prepare a wide range of high-quality reports, presentations, correspondence and other documents, undertake research and manage projects on behalf of the PFCC as instructed.  They will also accompany and support the PFCC on external visits and events and assist in planning and supporting stakeholder visits to Essex as required. 

You will bring to the role significant experience of providing support to senior leaders within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, through which you have gained considerable expertise in building and maintaining positive relationships, the trust and confidence of senior leaders and decision makers across a range of partners, including elected politicians.

You will be able to deal swiftly and discretely with confidential and sensitive issues and problems, with the confidence and competence to deal professionally and diplomatically with difficult and / or emotional members of the public, ensuring the optimum outcome for them, the PFCC and their office.  If this sounds like you, then we would be keen to hear from you!

Within your reason for application please provide evidence of the following skills and experience:

• Experience of providing support to senior leaders within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. 

• Interpersonal and communications skills.

• Experience of building and maintaining positive relationships, the trust and confidence of senior leaders and decision makers across a range of partners.  

• Attention to detail, with the ability to work both quickly and accurately to a consistently high standard. 

• Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages.

Our Location:

Officers based at Kelvedon Park, which provides onsite parking opportunities. The PFCC offers agile working which designates that certain roles can offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including some home working.  

For further enquires relating to this opportunity please contact Phillipa Brent-Isherwood, Chief Executive & Monitoring Officer (07973 880934).

The PFCC offers agile working which designates that certain roles can offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including some home working. The specific requirements of this role will be discussed during the interview stages with candidates. The extent of flexibility will be agreed through individual assessment with the line manager to assess operational requirements and individual’s suitability for home working. In the event that home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend the contractual workplace, as agreed with the line manager.

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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.

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• have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation
• are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.

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Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.

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