Description The Rural Payments Agency’s work helps the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to encourage a thriving farming and food sector and strong rural communities.
RPA makes Common Agricultural Policy support payments, traces livestock and carries out inspections. We manage over 40 schemes, paying farmers and traders more than £2 billion each year. To administer such a wide range of schemes and meet EU requirements we manage information on more than two million land parcels.
Three strategic priorities drive everything we do; customer service, effectiveness and efficiency. These priorities help us improve our performance in the most cost-effective way.
Rural Payments Agency has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 87 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rural Payments Agency employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).
Overall, 68% of employees would recommend working at Rural Payments Agency to a friend. This is based on 88 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
69% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Rural Payments Agency as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Rural Payments Agency.