CEO Role
with Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Appropriate training will be provided, where required, to enable the successful candidate to carry out the full range of assigned duties.

AFBI actively engage with employees to encourage and support professional goals. We continuously develop our employees with a range of professional and personal development opportunities. Our corporate Learning and Development programme is open to all staff and consists of a number of formal and informal initiatives. In addition to corporate Learning and Development opportunities, AFBI will encourage you to be proactive and self-direct your own development.

AFBI has a range of family-friendly policies to allow staff to balance work with the other aspects of their lives. These include part-time working, jobsharing arrangements, flexible working and special leave provisions. AFBI provides maternity provisions, paternity, parental and adoption leave, many of which are provided at an enhanced rate beyond statutory entitlement.

We are committed to support each employee where we can throughout their journey with us. To support employees we offer a number of initiatives, including workplace health checks, cost towards flu vaccinations, Occupational Health Services, and the provision of trained Mental Health First Aiders.

We recognise that throughout our lifetime we may experience ill-health. To support you financially and to alleviate stress while recovering from ill-health, AFBI offers a generous sick entitlement to support you until you return to the workplace, fit and well.

AFBI understands that there may be times when you may need independent advice and help coping with personal or work-related issues that may be affecting your ability to work effectively. To help you with these issues AFBI offer a confidential Welfare Support Service. AFBI also operates an Employee Assistance Programme, delivered through Inspire which provides free independent and confidential counselling, advice and support for any personal or work-related issues.

A mutual healthcare society which provides you and your family with access to affordable healthcare products, helping you to take control of your health and wellbeing. See link for more information: www.benenden.co.uk

AFBI grant special leave with pay up to a maximum of three days on the condition that staff contribute an equivalent amount of their own leave (annual or flexi) to the same voluntary sector organisation for the purposes of volunteering. This is providing there is no adverse impact on official business and no conflict of interest.

AFBI offer all staff the opportunity to partake in the Cycle to Work Pay and Reward Scheme. Under the Cycle to Work Scheme employees may ‘sacrifice’ part of their pay in exchange for the use of a bicycle and any associated safety equipment, with the potential to save money on Tax and National Insurance Contributions. AFBI has seven sites throughout Northern Ireland that all offer free convenient car parking.

AFBI support The Charity for Civil Servants, providing (financial) help and advice to serving and former staff of the Civil Service and associated organisations, including AFBI. More information can be viewed at the following link: www.foryoubyyou.org.uk/

In addition to the contribution to your pension pot, the scheme also offers a range of benefits to you and your family while you are in work and when you retire. If you die in service, the scheme provides valuable life cover to your family in the form of a lump sum and a pension for your dependants. These pension arrangements form a valuable part of your remuneration package. For further information on the available pension options, please visit the Northern Ireland Civil Service Pensions Scheme website.