View Vacancy – Head Of Visits, Grade – HEO, New Delhi
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Policy & Political roles)
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Political
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Note: All applicants are required to mandatorily fill the complete online Application form including the employment and educational details, experience segment and the behaviour-based questions. We will be thoroughly reviewing the application forms only for all the required details. Forms that are incomplete in any respect will not be considered while shortlisting for the next stage.
Main purpose of job:
This is an exciting role in the Political and Bilateral Affairs team which sits at the heart of the India network. The position of Head of Visits has an interesting and varied high profile portfolio. Past visits have included the UK Prime Minister, UK Secretaries of State and Members of The Royal Family. Strong personal impact, delivering through others and creativity will be critical to your ability to deliver.
We reserve the right to review, revise or amend the roles and responsibilities from time to time reflecting the changing needs of business.
Roles and responsibilities / what will the jobholder be expected to achieve?:
To deliver high quality ministerial and senior official visit programmes for incoming British visitors to India. This will include:
- Managing and delivering through your team of 1 CBS officer.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to creatively design and research visit programmes which meet both the visitor’s and BHC’s objectives.
- Owning and delivering high standard visits, managing relationships, using your creativity to plan events, finding solutions to problems and thinking on your feet.
- Identifying and cultivating new contacts (both in the UK and in India) to develop strong working relationships and ensure our objectives are met.
- Ensuring all visits administration is well organised e.g., visas, protocol, liaising with the visits and movements team on hotel, room and transport bookings.
- Leading on-the-day visits organisation, implementing the visit programmes and ensuring they run smoothly.
- Proactively producing an upcoming HMG visits grid which lists inward and outward visits, and maintaining records of previous visits, to provide up-to-date high-level visits statistics.
- Delivering high standard immersion programmes through your team, meeting colleague and network objectives
- Robustly managing visit and immersion budgets
- Helping to prepare and quality control Ministerial and official briefing packs.
- Drafting and sending official letters to Indian authorities
- Chairing and producing minutes of British Commission visits organisation
- Working with colleagues to develop creative visit events.
- Stakeholder management, developing your expertise on how best to engage with UK and Indian government’s departments, organisations and businesses.
- Producing visit briefing for senior readership.
- Supporting the wide range of Political and Bilateral Affairs work
What we do:
The British High Commission (BHC) in India works to enhance UK-India ties (www.gov.uk/world/india). The Political Department within the BHC is responsible for political relations between the UK and Indian Governments. It is based in the BHC in Delhi but works in support of our wider network of Deputy High Commissions (DHC) across India.
The British High Commission organises a significant number of Ministerial and senior official visits to India and the UK. Ensuring that all elements of these visits are delivered to an exceptionally high standard is vital. The Political Department is responsible for the overarching co-ordination of these visits, delivery of the cross-cutting VIP visits, and supports different parts of the British High Commission and wider network to organise sector or issue-specific visits.
Further information
The Political and Bilateral team is looking for an English-speaking individual. This role would be well suited to someone who has previously worked in government and/or has experience of delivering high profile events. The role requires someone who has a good knowledge of the UK – its institutions, strengths and networks.
The successful candidate should have a proven track record in outstanding organisation skills, be confident in drafting, have excellent people skills, an ability to think creatively to solve problems and be enthusiastic and adaptable. The successful candidate will need to have a flexible approach to working, for example be prepared to work alongside different teams for short periods of time to help deliver visits including occasionally visits that take place outside Delhi.
Resources managed (staff and expenditure):
Visits budget management and Line management 1 Country Based member of staff.
Language requirements:
Language: English
Level of language required: Fluent
Learning and development opportunities (and any specific training courses to be completed):
In house training and mentoring will be given, as well as ad hoc learning and development course opportunities.
Working patterns:
Monday – Friday, 0900-1700. Regular working hours, although flexibility may be required around peak visit weeks. We are also open to applications from people who want to work flexibly, including arrangements around childcare e.g. during school holidays.
Any other information (or specific local Post requirements):
The role will involve access to and handling of classified or sensitive information therefore, applicants must already hold a minimum of the UK’s SC level of clearance or be able to achieve it.
Due to the security clearance requirement mentioned above, only nationals of the following countries are eligible to apply:
UK, Canada, Australia, USA, New Zealand
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- Previous visits or project management experience
- Experience working on/ familiarity with the UK
- Strong people management skills
Security restrictions:
Because of the security clearance requirement only nationals of the following countries are eligible to apply:
UK, Canada, Australia, USA, New Zealand.
British citizens must have been resident in the UK for at least two of the previous 5 years. However, applications will be considered from candidates working overseas for HM Government in the past ten years or who already hold adequate security clearance.
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Delivering at Pace, Making Effective Decisions, Managing a Quality Service, Seeing the Big Picture
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19 January 2026
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Higher Executive Officer (HEO)
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Fixed Term
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40
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12 months
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South Asia & Afghanistan
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India
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New Delhi
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British High Commission
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INR
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INR 125,179 per month plus Additional Allowance of 18% in lieu of Provident Fund & Special Allowance along with 8% of basic salary as Responsibility Allowance
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16 February 2026
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The basic pay of INR 125,179 topped up with additional allowances:
- 8% of basic as Responsibility Allowance
- 18% of the basic in lieu of Provident Fund and Special Allowance/Superannuation Fund
A full breakdown of salary will be provided.
The following amounts may be deduced from your pay each month:
- Notional tax at a flat rate of 20% of gross salary will be deducted by the BHC if you are not liable to pay local tax. This applies to all spouses and partners of UK-based officers posted to India.
- Staff who are not spouses or dependants of UK-based officers are liable to pay local tax. In these circumstances tax is not deducted at source and staff must make their own arrangements to pay tax in accordance with Indian tax regulations.
No relocation or any other related costs or assistance will be provided. FCDO does not pay for any travelling, accommodation & relocation expenses incurred and/or accept any financial risk, including cancellation or reschedule costs
FCDO operates an agile workforce. To facilitate this, you may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as we may reasonably require. The BHC is recognised as a good employer, with a robust, fair and transparent performance management & appraisal system linked to increments and staff bonuses. We have a 5-day working week, plus annual leave, public holidays, maternity leave provision, special leave, paid sick leave provision; ample development opportunities, travel opportunities, a good organisational culture, and excellent work/life balance.
Around half of our work forces are women. We treat people with respect and equality and have a policy of zero tolerance for any form of discrimination, bullying, or harassment.
This is a good opportunity to be part of a strong, diverse team, working in the biggest network that FCDO has anywhere across the globe. We are aiming to make it the best.
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“Important information:
ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE REVIEWED / SCREENED IN LINE WITH THE MANDATORY UK SECURITY CLEARANCE THAT WILL BE REQUIRED AND ANY APPLICATION THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE. Please note that Indian nationals would not obtain the mandatory UK security clearance due to the sensitivity of handling Indian visa applications.
ALL applicants must have permission to work in India by either holding a valid visa, be the recognised partner/ family member of a serving diplomat from other countries. THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OBTAIN ANY VISAS FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT MEET THE CRITERIA ABOVE. Evidence of your nationality and permission to work in India must be sent with your application form, for example, photocopies of the details page of your passport and/or visa along with pre-employment questionnaire. Please attach this in the attachments section or in the CV section.
Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders will need have, or be able to obtain, a valid special work permit issued from Government of India (GOI) to work in the British High Commission (BHC). BHC will not be able to sponsor work visas or obtain/ assist with the special work permit from GOI. Offers of employment made to OCI card holders will be conditional upon candidates obtaining a special work permit.
Note: For requisite special permission to take up employment in any foreign Diplomatic Missions in India, OCI Cardholder must visit https://ociservices.gov.in
Applicants who do not meet the above criterion will not be considered.”
Note: All applicants are required to mandatorily fill the complete online application form including the employment, educational details, behavioural and technical/ professional skills questions. We will be thoroughly reviewing the application forms only with all the required details and the shortlisting is not basis CV/ cover letter. Forms that are incomplete in any respect will not be considered while shortlisting for the next stage
Please note – successful applicants will be offered employment on Country Based Staff (CBS) terms and conditions. This is not a permanent UK Civil Service position and does not attract diplomatic immunities and privileges (other than what an individual may already hold if they are a recognised partner/family member of a serving diplomat).
To Apply:
Please note applications without (a) and (b) will not be considered.
a) Complete the Online Application Form
b) Complete the Experience, Professional Skills and Behaviour based Segments in the Online Application Form
c) Complete this duly filled Pre Employment Questionnaire
Please ensure that your application is authentically written based on your own experiences. If AI tools are used, their usage must only be limited to specific tasks such as ensuring formatting consistency and keyword relevance. The core content, personal narratives, and responses to behaviour and skill-based questions must genuinely reflect your professional journey, experiences, and achievements. We place great importance on originality and individual effort throughout the application process. Any form of plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification.
To ensure a successful application it is important that you explain how you demonstrate behaviours and technical / professional skills, basis your experience. You are strongly advised to read the Success Profiles Civil Service Behaviours Framework, which provides a detailed guidance on how these behaviours are defined for each position.
Applicants are encouraged to use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique to prepare specific examples of when and how you have demonstrated these behaviours in your application, by evidencing a structured response, including your skills and experiences. You briefly describe the situation in which you demonstrated the behaviour, and then explain your task in addressing the situation, what action you took and the result of this.
Internal staff applying for this position must have prior approval from their current line manager and should not be on an active formal written warning, else the application will not be considered. Should you have any queries please feel free to write to [email protected]
We will accept only online applications by 19 January 2026 (latest by 23:55 hours IST).
Please note that all the applicants will be required to strictly adhere to the security guidelines for British High Commission.
Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.
Applicants who do not have the required qualification & experience should kindly abstain from applying, as their applications will not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, and no telephone enquires will be dealt with. Basis the scores, the candidate/s who did not score as highly as the successful candidate, might be placed on the reserve list. If during the reserve period of 12 months, the same or largely similar role becomes available, the role may be offered to the second or subsequent appointable candidates.
” The start date mentioned in the job advert is tentative and the appointment will be subject to successful clearances including police verification, references, medical, educational, and professional checks. “
We welcome all applications irrespective of age, race, colour, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, caste, or creed. We are also open to applications from people who want to work flexibly.
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