As an executive officer, you could work in any of the 170 civil service departments and agencies that deal with developing government policies and delivering services to the public. All departments and agencies employ people at executive officer (EO) grade, although job titles can vary.
Government departments and agencies include:
Ministry of DefenceHome OfficeDepartment for EducationOffice for National StatisticsPublic Health EnglandNational Crime AgencyForestry Commission.
Your exact duties would depend on the department you worked for and could include:
managing a team of administrative officersbeing responsible for motivating, training and reviewing team performancetraining in a specific area of work such as tax or immigration controlhandling a caseloadapplying complex policies and procedures to deal with enquiries and complaintsmaking decisions on individual casesupdating records on computer systems and databasespreparing and presenting reports.