Description
As a Parliamentary and Correspondence Officer in the Cabinet Office, you will play a vital role at the heart of government, ensuring accurate, timely, and high-quality responses to parliamentary business and public inquiries.
Working at the intersection of ministers, policy teams, and the public, you will oversee the end-to-end processing of Parliamentary Questions (PQs), Ministerial Correspondence (MC), and Treat Official letters.
You will join an inclusive, supportive, and engaging team where diverse perspectives are genuinely valued and personal growth is championed.
Job description
Successful candidates could be placed into one of the following roles:
Parliamentary Officer:
- Manage the day-to-day workflow of Written Parliamentary Questions (PQs), ensuring requests are logged, routed, drafted, reviewed, and submitted within strict statutory deadlines.
- Coordinate work on petitions debates, working closely with policy teams and private offices to prepare Ministers with necessary briefing in good time.
- Ensure the department is updated on Parliamentary business taking place, on a daily and weekly basis; issuing our routine 'Today in Parliament emails' each day and coordinating the team's work to update and distribute our 'Parliamentary Planner' each week.
- Provide flexible resource and support to the work-strands across the Parliamentary team.
Correspondence Drafter:
- Work with policy teams, other government departments, and private offices to draft high-quality replies to ministerial and public correspondence.
- Manage the progression of casework to ensure responses are sent within the agreed Cabinet Office timeframe of 15-20 working days.
- Ensure that casework is accurately logged, processed, and tracked via our online casework management system.
- Ensure the wider Parliamentary and Correspondence team is kept informed about policy areas relevant to ongoing casework.
Operations and Digital Officer:
- Ensure that casework is accurately logged and data is appropriately managed via our case management system.
- Successfully manage the transfer of correspondence to other departments, and manage the contribution or transfer requests received by the Cabinet Office.
- Support the maintenance of our case management system, including the training of users across the department.
- Opportunities to support and potentially manage small-scale digital projects for PCT.
Person specification
Successful candidates should be:
- Confident writers with a keen eye for detail.
- Proactive and able to manage their time effectively.
- Able to deliver at pace and manage multiple cases at once.
- Aware of policy developments and able to assess the likely impact on casework.
- Confident in building positive working relationships with a wide range of teams and other Government departments.
Essential Skills:
- Excellent written English and communication skills, including meticulous grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Excellent relationship-building skills.
- Ability to deliver under pressure.
Desirable Criteria
- An interest in current affairs.
- Some knowledge of Parliament.
Benefits
- Salary of £35,479 - £37,121 per year.
- Cabinet Office contributes £10,278 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants, and employer contributions of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.