Remote Enforcement Manager

Can you deliver high-quality casework while maintaining excellent service standards in a fast-paced operational environment?

Have you successfully managed complex investigations or casework, ensuring fair and consistent outcomes?

Are you committed to delivering a quality service and driving continuous improvement?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Join a specialist team responsible for supporting compliance, consistency, and high standards across DVSA’s enforcement activities. Working closely with operational colleagues and a wide range of stakeholders, the team provides expert advice, oversight, and assurance to help protect road safety and ensure regulatory requirements are applied fairly and effectively. This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful work that has a direct impact on public confidence, industry compliance, and the delivery of DVSA’s strategic objectives.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA.

Join the Remote Enforcement Office (REO) and play a key role in supporting DVSA’s enforcement strategy across Great Britain. Leading a team of Compliance Support Officers and Examiners, you will drive performance, develop capability, and ensure the delivery of a high-quality, consistent service. Working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, you'll make informed decisions, provide expert guidance, and contribute to road safety and regulatory compliance through effective enforcement and operator oversight.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Working collaboratively with the REO management team, wider business and external stakeholders.
• Engage with all team members to ensure that all staff are working as a team and are engaged with the wider business.
• Execute management responsibilities effectively and in line with DVSA policies and processes; working with, leading and acting as a role model for team members and colleagues.
• Determine and plan the team requirements, including allocating resources and prioritising.
• Review casework and endorse recommendations, ensuring quality and consistency throughout the teams.
• Ensure our people are suitably skilled, review performance and agree bespoke personal development plans for each team member.
• Work with REO teams, internal departments and other stakeholders, to design and implement remote schemes in relation to vehicle, traffic and light vehicle.
• Embrace and contribute to change and innovation, encourage others and support team members.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

• Have vocational related qualification in Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at level 3 or IMI ATA registration at diagnostic technician level or IRTEC registration at advanced technician level or Engtech registration

OR

• National C.P.C. in Road Operations or City & Guilds Level 2 Tachographs or equivalent

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

How to apply:

Our selection process ensures a comprehensive assessment of each applicant's qualifications, skills, and potential fit within our organisation.

The selection process for this role will be:

Stage 1: Sift of CV and personal statement

Stage 2: Interview

You must be successful at each stage to progress to the next stage.

Stage 1: Sift

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

• Experience – you will be asked to provide a CV (unlimited wordcount) and personal statement (1000-word count). Please provide evidence of your Experience of the following: Sound understanding and knowledge of DVSA’s roadside and enforcement activities and the regulatory frameworks for operators.
• Use of Microsoft programs, such as Power BI, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Enforcement Management Systems.
• Experience in the management and investigation of operators.
• Ability to provide feedback, guidance and engage professionally with employees and external and internal stakeholders.

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the 250 word lead experience point -Sound understanding and knowledge of DVSA’s roadside and enforcement activities and the regulatory frameworks for operators.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The sift will take place week commencing 28th September 2026.

Stage 2: Interview

At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

• Behaviours – Leadership, Making Effective Decisions and Communicating and Influencing.
• Experience
• Strengths

The interviews will take place week commencing 12th October 2026.

This interview will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

You can find out more about our hiring process, how to apply, and application and interview guidance on our careers site (opens in a new window).

Please note that we will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change

Further information on the selection process

We will also hold a 12-month reserve list for this role, which may lead to potential opportunities beyond the role you applied for.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Document Accessibility

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Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

Pre-employment Checking

If your application is successful but you have been dismissed from the Civil Service, your application could be removed at the pre-employment checking stage depending on the nature of the dismissal.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

All External applicants and current employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) will be required to undergo a Social Media Check. A Social Media Check is a review of your publicly available online activity, typically across platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and others. The purpose is to identify any public posts or content that could raise concerns for employers, such as:

Hate speech or discriminatory behaviour

Threats or acts of violence

Illegal activity or substance misuse

Sexually explicit material

Extremist views or affiliations

Importantly, this check does not involve hacking into your accounts or accessing private messages. It only considers content you have chosen to make public. Employers use this kind of screening to help ensure their workplace remains safe, inclusive, and aligned with company values. It’s not about judging your personality or lifestyle—it’s about checking for potential red flags that might affect the role or company culture. If you have questions or concerns about the social media check, we would be happy to explain in more detail what’s being looked at and how your data is handled securely and fairly.

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