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The DWP is recruiting for 110 Executive Officers in Leeds

The roles available will be based in Quarry House LS2 7UA

DWP are looking to fill Executive Officer roles in DWP, Work and Health Decision Making Directorate, Decision Making. These are key roles for people who have a positive attitude, a desire for public service and want to make a difference to people’s lives.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is committed to reduce the rates of fraud and error payments within Universal Credit (UC). The rate of fraud and error has continued to rise significantly with increases in the proportions of higher risk cases, for example the self-employed and because of the easements and changes introduced due to the pandemic.

To address this, we have introduced a self-employed income and expenses checking process into the UC service. This new process includes a partial review of a live UC claim to determine the claimants’ payments are correct

• If you’re looking for a career that makes a clear and positive difference to people’s lives, then a DWP Executive Officer role may be ideal for you!

Job description

As an Income & Expenses checking agent you will:

• Manage and conduct partial case reviews within an allocated caseload to ensure all cases adhere to all legal and policy requirements.
• Plan and conduct robust interviews with claimants by telephone, asking the required questions to gather all relevant information, including exercising judgement to tailor follow up questions of each individual case.
• Educate claimants on how to accurately report their Self-Employed Income and Expenses
• Decide what evidence is appropriate to request from claimants in order to confirm the validity of declarations, considering the context of each individual case.
• Gather, verify and assess all available information, and decide on an appropriate course of action from a number of options, to ensure any incorrectness can be identified and corrected. Examples include referring to CFCD (Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt)
• Complete reviews to a high standard, so that others can use the gathered information and advice as the sole source of evidence to make a fair judgement.
• Seek support and advice when required, identifying most appropriate source for the particular challenge e.g., referring to written guidance, raising with colleagues in a case conference or escalating to a team leader.
• Record the progress of a case on departmental systems. Maintain and retain relevant evidence in the evidence file redacting & annotating sensitive material when appropriate.
• Work collaboratively, effectively and flexibly within the team and contribute towards the development of this new role.
• Contribute to feedback and lessons learned to shape and improve the role and processes.

The key outcome from the reviews is to be confident the claimant is being paid the right amount and any incorrectness has been corrected.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the design and operating model of this brand-new process and be part of delivering DWPs Fraud and Error strategy, ensuring value for money for the taxpayer and positively impacting DWP’s reputation.

Benefits

Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. This means for your salary of £30,975 (with a pay award pending) DWP contributes £8973.46. This will increase if your location attracts London weighting. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
• Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
• Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
• Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

Closes: 11:55 pm on Thursday 26th August 2025