Oversight Support Officer (12 month FTC)

The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is the organisation through which the Mayor of London exercises his role as the Police and Crime Commissioner for London and is led by the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. MOPAC undertakes a broad range of statutory duties and works closely with the Mayor of London, Deputy Mayor and Metropolitan Police Service to deliver the priorities that will create safer London communities.

The main responsibilities of the role:

• Administrative tasks such as minute-taking, inbox management and arrangements for Board meetings

• Engaging with colleagues across MOPAC, the GLA and the MPS  

• Producing high-quality communications such as weekly email or summary papers

• Taking (co)-responsibility for managing specific workstreams such as oversight papers

   

As the Oversight Support Officer at MOPAC, your work focuses mostly on providing support for the London Policing Board. This entails administrative tasks, high-quality communications with Board members, senior staff and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), and working on decisions and quality products that ensure that key stakeholders have the right tools to support the Mayor in his oversight of the MPS. On a typical day, you may be writing a paper to summarise what the MPS has achieved on a topic area such as neighbourhood policing and what oversight has been provided in this space, updating on your tasks in a project group, or using tact in responding to queries from Board members. The work is fast paced and priorities change frequently – being resilient, collaborative and able to think on your feet is key to the role.

This is a maternity cover role, due to end December 2027.

Application Process

Candidates need to submit their CV and employment history and must answer the supplementary questions which are:

1. Please describe how you have used your organisational and administrative skills to implement and improve systems and processes.

2. Please describe how you found a way forward in a situation at work where views on the right approach or way of working differed. 

3. Please describe a time when you have had to re-prioritise your workload, and how you approached it.

4. Please describe a time when you have effectively adapted your written and oral communication to your target audience.

Want to find out what it’s like to work with MOPAC?

You can find out more about MOPAC by visiting our website.

If you have a question about the role or the recruitment process, please contact a 

member of the HR team via email on [email protected].