Job Title: Contract Support Officer – International Relations
Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70912
Strengthen global partnerships. Shape international defence collaboration.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Contract Support Officer – International Relations at our Andover site, near Hampshire.
As a Contract Support Officer – International Relations, you’ll provide both operational and strategic support to international defence contracts, enabling effective delivery of business objectives while facilitating communication with overseas partners. This is an exciting opportunity to act as a key interface with foreign stakeholders — interpreting technical and commercial information, ensuring clarity across engineering and supply chain teams, and promoting strong collaborative relationships.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Support contract performance and implement changes as required
- Facilitate effective communication between internal teams and overseas partners
- Interpret and translate technical and commercial documentation accurately
- Support business development activity within the international defence sector
- Apply strong cultural awareness and organisational skills to ensure smooth contract delivery.
This role is full time working 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days onsite at Andover. The role involves UK based and international travel.
Essential experience of the Contract Support Officer:
- Native or near‑native proficiency in Ukrainian and English
- Proven experience in professional interpretation and translation
- Understanding of engineering and supply chain terminology
- Experience in the defence sector, specifically with military platforms.
Qualifications for the Contract Support Officer:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 26/01/2026