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About the Role
The Compliance Officer will support the delivery of Erasmus+ by carrying out routine compliance monitoring and verification activities across the grant lifecycle. This role helps ensure that applications, awards, delivery activity, and reporting meet contractual, regulatory, and organisational requirements.
Responsibilities
- Carrying out routine compliance checks across the full grant lifecycle, including applications, awards, delivery evidence and claims.
- Conducting due diligence and verification checks on applicants and beneficiaries, ensuring required information and documentation is complete and accurate.
- Reviewing documentation against programme rules, policies, procedures and established compliance checklists.
- Recording compliance checks, findings, decisions and supporting evidence accurately to maintain clear and auditable records.
- Identifying errors, omissions, inconsistencies, risks, irregularities and potential red flags, and escalating concerns promptly.
- Supporting compliance reviews, sampling exercises, partner assessments and audit activities by gathering and organising relevant evidence.
- Maintaining complete, accurate and traceable records in line with organisational requirements and audit standards.
- Responding to routine compliance queries and providing clear guidance to programme teams and stakeholders.
- Providing data, findings and updates for compliance reports and dashboards, including identifying trends and recurring issues.
- Contributing to continuous improvement by highlighting recurring issues and suggesting improvements to processes, tools and templates.
Requirements
- Current right to work in the UK.
- Experience working in an administrative, compliance, audit, or governance environment.
- Experience reviewing documents or working with structured processes.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate records.
- Ability to follow procedures and apply rules consistently.
- Experience handling data or documentation in an organised and auditable way.
- Experience in grant-funded, regulated, or public sector environments.
- Exposure to compliance, assurance, or audit activities.
- Familiarity with data systems or case management tools.
- Working towards or interested in compliance, audit, or risk qualifications (e.g. ICA, IIA, IRM).
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Record keeping
- Following procedures
- Applying rules
- Data handling
- Organised
- Auditable record maintenance
- Compliance monitoring
- Verification activities
- Due diligence
- Documentation review
- Risk identification
- Reporting
- Process improvement
Location
- Strafford
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Grade 6
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- £28,072 gross per annum plus £3,300 London Market Allowance
Benefits
- 2 Year Fixed Term Contract with possibility of extension
About the Company
- We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
- For 90 years we have shaped brighter futures through education, arts, culture, language, and creativity.
- Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries.
- The Department for Education has announced that the British Council is set to take on the role of National Agency for Erasmus+.
- In December the UK and EU arrived at a political agreement that the UK would rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme in 2027.
- That agreement has now been legally formalised under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
- The British Council has a longstanding commitment to supporting international exchange.
- It was a lead partner in the Erasmus+ UK National Agency from 2014-20, where Erasmus+ made a significant contribution to the UK's cultural relations activities, funding 8,091 projects, engaging 583,757 UK participants, and awarding around €1.1 billion to UK organisations.
- A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work.
- The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer.
- The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes, increase understanding of disability and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent.
- We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements.
- We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.