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Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, SP4 0JQ

The Deputy Establishment Security Officer is accountable to the Establishment Security Officer (ESyO) for the effective delivery and maintenance of security minimum baseline standards. The job delivers to the Dstl Site Operations Manager/Head of Establishment (HOE) and ensures we protect Dstl personnel and assets and maintain Dstl’s licence to operate to HMG/MOD mandated standards.

Working with ESyO and Deputies from all Dstl sites, you will undertake activities in an efficient and cost effective manner, ensuring a consistent approach to risk management. You will support and enable self-service processes where appropriate.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.

In this role you will:

• Understand Dstl’s business and delivery requirements, identify and document potential risks to security.
• Ensure procedures are followed and conditions are in place to mitigate risk to security across the business.
• Deliver effective services relating to Physical Security:
• Advise on Site Security and assure baseline protective security measures are met.
• Provide a proportional response and advice relating to investigations and incident management.
• Provide protective security advice and guidance to internal stakeholders including internal and external event security measures.
• Investigate and resolve security incidents in line with corporate security breach policy.
• Provide security advice to colleagues for off-site events.
• Interface with policing / guarding forces to ensure sufficient level of service for site policing & guarding.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Dedication to delivering and assuring a secure, safe and resilient work environment for Defence Science and Technology (S&T).
• Evidence of your skills and capabilities drawn from experience in a security, resilience or assurance related role.
• An adaptable and resilient team player who will thrive contributing to Defence S&T in a role identifying risk management solutions within a strong governance framework.

  Important Information

  Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

  This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Seeing the Big Picture

Alongside your salary of £32,163, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes £7,457 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Benefits 

Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:

• Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.

• Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours (e.g. working a 4 day week/ 9 day fortnight), job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).

• Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.

• Where you work: Depending on your role, blended working may be available including remote working to suit you and your team. This can be discussed at interview.

• Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.

• Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid

• Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.

• Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.

London

As reconfirmed in the Integrated Review Refresh 2023 the foundation of the UK’s integrated approach to deterrence and defence remains a minimum, credible, independent UK nuclear deterrent.

The National Security Secretariat is responsible for advising the Prime Minister on nuclear deterrence policy and co-ordinating relevant activity across Government, working closely with the Ministry of Defence, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department of Energy Security and Net Zero and HM Treasury.

Key priorities include the major programme of modernisation and recapitalisation of the UK’s deterrent and policy work to ensure that the UK’s approach to capability planning, arms control, counter proliferation and strategic stability is informed by clear analysis of the UK’s security interests and the future international context.

This is a vital role at the heart of government, working collaboratively across government and internationally, under the direction of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and Cabinet Secretary, to shape policy and deliver a complex and sensitive suite of activities. The successful candidate will lead the team that is the Cabinet Office focus of expertise on nuclear deterrence, the Defence Nuclear Enterprise and the trilateral AUKUS agreement, as well as counter proliferation and arms control policy. They will be responsible for supporting the Prime Minister, Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser on these issues and co-ordinating relevant cross-Government activity.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Ensuring the Government’s nuclear policy and strategy is coherent with wider national security policy and oversee its implementation through the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. 
• Advising the NSA and Prime Minister on all aspects of the operation and maintenance of a credible, safe and effective nuclear deterrent, including crisis preparedness and alignment with other military capabilities and diplomatic actions.
• Managing the Cabinet Office’s key bilateral nuclear relationships, including work with international allies and partners to ensure coherence and a shared approach to nuclear deterrence. They will also be responsible for the central oversight and coordination of the UK’s participation in the AUKUS agreement.
• Providing effective secretariat support to Ministerial and senior official committees responsible for nuclear deterrence policy and its implementation. 
• Convening and co-ordinating cross-Government stakeholders to resolve differences of view on policy or implementation.
  
• Leading and shaping cross-Government policy on strategic stability, arms control and counter proliferation.
• As a member of the Cabinet Secretariat there may be a requirement to fulfil crisis management roles within the National Security Secretariat or Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) to contribute to the Government’s response to or recovery from a national emergency.

It is important that, through your CV and supporting statement, you provide evidence of the professional skills, breadth of experience and personal qualities for this post.  

Essential Criteria:

• Strong leadership and the ability to build, guide and support a high performing team. Ability to gain the confidence and trust of individuals of varying seniority across the organization and with senior high profile external stakeholders.

• A track record of working across organisational boundaries to build a collaborative and effective approach. Excellent relationship management and teamworking skills.

• Resilience and the ability to work under pressure to deliver ambitious outcomes and produce high quality work to tight deadlines.

• Strong analytical, policy development and problem-solving skills. Able to understand and explain complex technical issues to non experts and influence high level decision makers.

• Intellectual flexibility, sound judgement, the ability to see the big picture and understand the implications of current events.

• Very strong oral and written communication skills.

• Experience of working at a senior level in large organizations responsible for sensitive and high profile activities that are subject to public scrutiny.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Cabinet Office contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career within the Department and wider Civil Service. It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you’ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing. As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits.

This includes:

• 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays.
• This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday;
• A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension; where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken; and where your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire;
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers;
• Childcare benefits (policy for new employees as of 5 April 2018): The government has introduced the Tax- Free Childcare (TFC) scheme. Working parents can open an online childcare account and for every £8 they pay in, the government adds £2, up to a maximum of £2000 a year for each child or £4000 for a disabled child. Parents then use the funds to pay for registered childcare. Existing employees may be able to continue to claim childcare vouchers, so please check how the policy would work for you here;
• Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle;
• The opportunity to use onsite facilities including fitness centres and staff canteens (where applicable); and occupational sick pay.

Birmingham, Leeds, London

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have experience in quality assuring data, ensuring the integrity and reliability of that data so that a variety of stakeholders can make informed decisions?

Are you someone who can identify and resolve data reconciliation issues effectively?

Can you collaborate well with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Please note: This is a part-time position, if successful you will be required to work 18.5 hours per week covering a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This salary is pro-rata so is exactly 50% of the full time salary.

The Transport Security Directorate (TSD), works across the Department for Transport (DfT), His Majesty’s Government (HMG) and with partners to mitigate the threats the transport sector faces domestically and internationally.

We are looking for a part-time Performance and Assurance Analyst to join the Aviation Security International Operations (ASIO) division, which sits within TSD. ASIO leads on high profile work to implement and improve the transport sector’s aviation security regimes, as well as working with international partners to raise global standards and build capability in priority countries. As the national security threats to aviation evolve, we are working across DfT to ensure that these issues are reflected in the Department’s work to ensure that we balance UK prosperity with security objectives.

The successful candidate will quality assure the assessments of security capabilities in our priority countries, strictly aligning with guidance established from international regulations to guarantee accuracy. Your role will see you regularly collaborate with other teams to ensure the assessment data collected is of the highest quality. You will work on continuously improving the established guidance. You will think innovatively and be confident to communicate any issues and solutions with teams across the division to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness in our delivery processes.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Gather, validate, and analyse performance information relating to ASIO business performance both internally and externally.
• Identify and address data reconciliation issues by collaborating with relevant teams and individuals, striving for effective solutions.
• Report on performance metrics, ensuring ASIO leadership team are sighted on areas of sub-optimal outcomes.
• Conduct data assurance across ASIO operations, ensuring compliance with agreed data collation standards. Perform quality assurance on all airport assessments and additional measures activities data, maintaining consistency between scores, narratives, and codified answers.
• Collaborate with the Insight and Product teams within the same value stream to share information and data, facilitating analysis, product development, and thematic activities.
• Actively contribute insights to enhance the overall quality of assessment data and the established guidance that underpins the assessment programme.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

About you

We are looking for someone who has exceptional communication skills and can express themselves in a confident and concise manner with colleagues at all levels. You will represent the department both professionally and clearly, ensuring key messages are delivered to both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion. You can build rapport quickly with both internal and external stakeholders which enables you to build solid working relationships.

Excellent organisational skills are required and you will be able to manage and filter workflow, as well as organise and prioritise your work to maximise productivity and achieve all deadlines. You will be highly adaptable and flexible, adjusting to the requirements of the role.

Additional Information

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. 

As a division that works on threat-related issues, we expect our staff to work flexibly and adapt to rapidly changing requirements and priorities across the teams. The nature of the work means that the role may require out of hours working to respond to incidents.

Due to business needs, you may be required to work flexibly to meet demands of the role. This may mean working outside of core business hours. If this is the case, you will, under departmental policies, be able to claim time back for any additional hours worked.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it’s like working at the Department for Transport . 

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

Do you thrive when challenged? Do you have excellent stakeholder engagement skills? If so, we would like to hear from you.  This is an exciting opportunity to join Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt (CFCD) as part of their Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) Financial Crime Intelligence Team.  

The Financial Crime Intelligence Team (FCIT) was established in 2020 as part of the Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) within the Counter Fraud and Compliance Directorate (CFCD).  

The function is to highlight new risks and threats by acquiring intelligence/insights from the Financial Sector to reduce Serious and Organised Crime (SOC), Fraud, Error and Debt (FED) and Money Laundering losses by working in partnership with the Financial Sector. FCIT also explores and deliver innovative solutions and pilots relating to cryptocurrency, payments, banking intelligence and automation across the Financial Sector.   

The Intelligence Officer/Analyst posts are within the FCIT and will join the Crypto Intelligence Desk (CID) or FCIT’s core BAU function to develop and analyse Crypto/Financial Intelligence received from internal and external partners. 

CFCD is a great place to work where the leadership team are passionate about attracting the best talent whilst nurturing and valuing new and existing colleagues to be the best they can be. We are looking for people who can demonstrate our values and commitment to leadership which are based around Collaboration, Resilience and Inclusivity. We look for emotionally aware leaders who enable teams to be innovative, adaptable and flexible. We want you to be comfortable challenging the norm and finding daring and dynamic solutions that support our values and enable colleagues to shine in whatever role they do. 

If you want to join somewhere that recognises the importance of work-life balance, where you can learn new skills and progress your career, then CFCD is the place for you. Come and join the CFCD team today! 

• To develop external intelligence, working with Financial Institutions to ensure the necessary actions are taken.
• To work across the Law Enforcement Partners to identify new opportunities to counter Serious and Organised Crime (SOC).
• To develop the Crypto Intelligence Desk’s function and providing a service to CFCD Operations.
• To operate the current Analytical and Intelligence tools/systems to develop intelligence into cases. 
• Provide supporting analysis to identify new SOC/Fraud patterns, threats and risks. 
• To support the essential projects relating to FCIT’s objectives. 

Essential Criteria

Successful applicants for this role will need to undergo National Security Vetting to Security Clearance Level (SC) due to the nature of the role.   

You will normally need to meet the UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. In certain circumstances, a minimum of 3 years UK residency prior your vetting application may be considered, with additional checks. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post. 

Key Criteria  

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate:

• Must have an excellent working knowledge of Fraud/SOC within the Financial Sector or Cryptocurrency (Lead Criteria).
• An understanding of Intelligence Collection and Development for Law Enforcement (Second Lead Criteria).
• Experience of working with partners across Law Enforcement including National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), National Crime Agency and Police Forces.
• You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated to make a difference to SOC losses whilst working with the Financial Sector or Cryptocurrency Exchanges.

Desirable Skills 

• If based in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable. 

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

• With great benefits including:    

  • Generous annual leave – 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus bank holidays and one day of leave for the King’s Birthday. The exact number of days of annual leave will be determined by any current years of service.   
  • Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave we also recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and offer flexible working and a family friendly approach to work.   
  • Training and apprenticeships and up to 5 days’ personal development and learning allowance.   
  • Flexible/hybrid working.  
  • Employee discount schemes.   
  • Free wellbeing support.   
  • Opportunities to make a real difference through joining forums, initiatives and charities.   
  • Interest free travel loans.   
  • Vodafone advantage discount scheme.   
  • Highly sought-after civil service pension – your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where:  
  • The employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension.   
  • Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution.   
  • Your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire.   
  • For more information, visit civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk      

Nottingham Regional Centre- Unity Square, Nottingham, NG2 1NL

Do you have experience in managing Contractors?

Have you previously worked in operational security?

Are you confident in identifying building related security risks?

If you’ve answered yes to these, then maybe our Regional Security Manager role in Nottingham could be just for you!

See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our operational security team, where you will keep our people, buildings, and assets safe and secure. You will work with other Estates colleagues within your building to achieve outcomes and use your knowledge to give advice and make decisions.

As our Regional Security Manager, you will be responsible for a variety of things. Each day will be different, with new challenges that push your capabilities and enable you to learn new things. Here are some of things you’ll be doing;

• Identify, record, and analyse all building related security risks; formulate mitigating actions and share with stakeholders in line with standard HMRC security templates. Identify and exploit measures to improve the security posture.
• Undertake Level One Security Assurance on the security supplier’s service provision in the form of monthly KPIs and associated checks to support contract management.
• Work with the Commercial Business Partner to support and progress initiatives and project work to maximise the security contract’s potential and efficiencies.
• Produce and maintain building security management documentation such as site-specific Risk Registers and local risk assessments and security reviews, formulating the Building Security Policy in line with national Policy.
• Undertake regular security assurance reviews to ensure standards are adequate and meet existing threats and emerging risks to the business.
• Collaborate with the external security providers to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of physical security posture via the agreed site-specific assignment instructions.
• Take the lead in dealing with operational security incidents in line with National Security Framework guidelines.
• Collaborate and initiate security operations and activities with HMRC colleagues and outside agencies as appropriate.
• Support and assist in emergency and contingency planning and management regarding operational security issues as the operational security subject matter expert (SME), liaising with other members of the Building Management Team.
• Work collaboratively in partnership with the Incident Control Officer (ICO) for all sites in area of responsibility.
• Proactively seek out and develop contacts and networks, internally and externally.
• Provide SME (Subject Matter Expert) advice and management overview of security provisions in additional sites within your areas of responsibility.

Essential Criteria

• A working knowledge of operational security.
• Evidence of working with Suppliers & demonstrating strong supplier management skills.
• Excellent relationship builder, experience working across all levels in an organisation.
• A proven track record of operating at a tactical level, delivering Security Services across complex sites.
• Proven track record of analysing and resolving problems, developing opportunities, and implementing innovate solutions/approaches.

 Security Vetting 

• This role requires the post holder to be vetted to NSV ‘Security Clearance (SC)’ level. Successful candidate must be able to achieve SC within 3 months of appointment.

Desirable Criteria

• BTEC Level 5 in Security Management or equivalent qualification.

If not already held, you must be willing to obtain the following within 2 years of appointment:

• BTEC level 5 in Security Management or equivalent.
• Contract Management Foundation Level qualification.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find more about HMRC benefits in ‘Your little extras and big benefits handbook’ for further information or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.

Crawley

The NCA has grown in size and complexity in recent years and it is vital that it maintains a security posture and capabilities to protect against existing, new and emerging threats.

The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the Agency to protect the public. The IPS mission statement is:
“Delivering integrated protective security to build a resilient, high-trust Agency able to lead the UK’s fight to cut serious and organised crime.”

IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats that target the Agency, our officers and our assets, to enable the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas, with flexibility, agility and integrity. Its officers provide specialist security services to the Agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to mitigate security risks.

The NCA has grown in size and complexity in recent years and it is vital that it maintains a security posture and capabilities to protect against existing, new and emerging threats.

The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the Agency to protect the public. The IPS mission statement is:
“Delivering integrated protective security to build a resilient, high-trust Agency able to lead the UK’s fight to cut serious and organised crime.”

IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats that target the Agency, our officers and our assets, to enable the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas, with flexibility, agility and integrity. Its officers provide specialist security services to the Agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to mitigate security risks.

**To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV clearance within the first 12 months in post.**

Responsibilities 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the NCA’s Anti-Corruption Unit working in a multi-functional dynamic team, alongside Intelligence officers and Senior Investigators investigating the complex corruption threat to law enforcement.

We are looking for experienced Investigators who hold a current/active PIP2 or an equivalent recognised qualification/accreditation in investigative crime issued by a Government body ,The successful candidate must have experience in utilising covert tactics and a full DVLA Driving Licence (includes full EU licences)
Key Responsibilities

You will:

• Work within a team of self-contained, multi-functional ACU investigators and intelligence officers to develop intelligence and build evidence to support NCA and partner anti-corruption operations, within a context of serious and organised crime. 
• Participate in investigations where covert tactics, confidentiality, sensitive intelligence, and surveillance will provide the basis for tactical activity.

• Required to work flexibly, often outside of normal office hours, and sometimes for extended periods of duty.

• Have the ability to build a case file for prosecution, and to be part of a team taking a case through the judicial process to prosecution.
 
• Demonstrate the highest levels of integrity.

• Our priority is the protection of NCA officers, operations, and assets.

• We also support our partners to develop their own response corruption, nationally and internationally.

Full DVLA Driving Licence (includes full EU licences).

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

• Current/Active PIP2 or an equivalent recognised qualification/accreditation in investigative crime issued by a Government body.

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience and knowledge in the use of investigations techniques to meet operational outcomes.
• Good working knowledge of covert tactics and relevant legislation.
• Experience of building case files for prosecution, and taking a case through the judicial process to prosecution.

Alongside your salary of £34,672, National Crime Agency contributes £9,361 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

London

DESNZ

The responsibilities for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero for 2023 are as follows: 

• Delivering security of energy supply
• Ensuring properly functioning energy markets
• Encouraging greater energy efficiency
• Seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries 

For 2023, our priorities are: 

• Ensure security of energy supply this winter, next winter and in the longer-term – bringing down energy bills and reducing inflation.
• Ensure the UK is on track to meet its legally binding Net Zero commitments and support economic growth by significantly speeding up delivery of network infrastructure and domestic energy production.
• Improve the energy efficiency of UK homes, businesses and public sector buildings to meet the 15% demand reduction ambition.
• Deliver current schemes to support energy consumers with their bills and develop options for long-term reform to improve how the electricity market works for families and businesses.
• Seize the economic benefits of Net Zero, including the jobs and growth created through investment in new green industries.
• Pass the Energy Bill to support the emerging CCUS and hydrogen sectors; to update the governance of the energy system; and to reduce the time taken to consent offshore wind. 

Our Inclusive Environment 

We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.  

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive. 

We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process. 

Find Out More 

We regularly run events where you can find out more about the department and tips for the application process. You can sign up for upcoming events here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/departmentforenergysecurityandnetzero?  

You can also follow our LinkedIn Careers Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/desnz-careers/  

You will lead and manage policy on some of the Government’s top national security priorities, working with industry partners and colleagues across government to ensure that robust security and resilience measures are in place across Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) in the Downstream Gas and Electricity sectors.  This is a high priority area, commanding Ministerial interest from across HMG.

About the Team:

The State Threats, Energy Resilience and Cyber team ensures the risks of significant disruption to energy supplies and CNI are understood and effectively handled. We work across Whitehall and industry on the mitigation, prevention and reduction of risks, including severe weather (floods, storms, space weather), technical failure, cyber-attacks, terrorism, state actors, industrial action, and economic shocks. Our team works reciprocally to improve the resilience of sectors, in particular the oil, gas and electricity sectors, leading on the development of contingency plans and mitigation policies.

Key Responsibilities:

This is an exciting and challenging role, in which you will:

• Lead key elements of security policy for critical national infrastructure in the downstream gas and electricity sectors, providing direction and oversight of physical and personnel security programmes for critical national infrastructure in the downstream gas and electricity sectors.
• Lead the development and implementation of a new Security Strategy for the downstream gas and electricity sectors as they transition to Net-Zero.
• Own relationships with key industry stakeholders and security teams across DESNZ and HMG, working collaboratively on risk identification and development of mitigations.
• Likely have opportunities to task manage colleagues to deliver key projects and policies in your portfolio.
• Form part of the team’s emergency response function, regularly exercising to prepare for emergencies in the gas and electricity sector and responding when they do occur.
• Represent DESNZ at external meetings, conferences etc. as required.
• Help to promote a positive culture of diversity, inclusion and collaboration within the team.

Do you thrive working on constantly evolving priorities, working with colleagues and industry partners in an exciting area of energy policy? Then we could be the team for you! The successful candidate will:

• Be dedicated and have a hardworking, flexible approach to work.
• Enjoy developing good working relationships with colleagues at all levels, and own relationships with key industry stakeholders.
• Be able to adapt to constantly changing priorities, with good project management skills and the ability to prioritise multiple workstreams.
• Have strong policy skills and an interest in deploying these to develop pragmatic solutions to risk management, strategy development and implementation.
• Have excellent communication skills and be able to interpret and consolidate information from multiple sources into clear briefings, reports and recommendations.
• Be keen to build your subject matter expertise in energy policy, security and crisis management to provide support and advice to colleagues.
• Be able to clearly advise senior staff and ministers on complex risks and issues, to support decision making, and translate technical information into an accessible form for a non-expert audience.
• Be ready to support our crisis response work – thriving in a fast paced, uncertain environment

Experience of security, resilience or energy policy and/or emergency response is desirable but not essential.

Emergencies can occur at any time. You will be a member of the Out of Hours Emergency Rota (roughly 1 week in 7), providing a 24hr/7days a week capability. An additional allowance is provided for this function.

Please note that whilst existing DV clearance is not required to be appointed to these roles, successful candidates must be willing to obtain SC and then DV. It is the responsibility of the applicant to have completed and returned an SC security questionnaire to United Kingdom Security Vetting as part of the onboarding process, otherwise a start date cannot be provided.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

Southfield House – Durham

Immigration Enforcement (IE) tackles the criminality behind organised immigration crime. Our Criminal and Financial Investigation (CFI) teams play a fundamental role in tackling immigration crime, as part of a multi-layered UK law enforcement approach. Through working closely with partners in the National Crime Agency, territorial policing and many other agencies and departments, our CFI Teams take vigorous action against those criminals that seek to benefit from illegal migration.

Working with CFI teams is challenging and fast paced, requiring quick decision making in demanding situations. Our Criminal & Financial Investigators undertake a wide range of activities which support the detection, apprehension, and removal of immigration offenders. Our people need to operate in sometimes difficult and pressurised environments and are required to make well balanced decisions. All staff are expected to demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism and teamwork with adherence to our vision statement: “Tackling immigration crime by empowering our people, inspiring confidence and protecting communities.”

Where we uncover evidence of criminality linked to immigration abuse, we investigate these offences under the Immigration Act 1971 and related legislation such as the Identity Documents Act 2010. Such offences might include facilitation, human trafficking, and the use of false or fraudulently obtained documents.

In England and Wales we use powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) in much the same way as the police do, while in Scotland and Northern Ireland we currently rely on the Immigration Acts.

You’ll manage a team of Immigration Officers focusing on serious and organised immigration crime investigations to achieve maximum disruption of organised crime group (OCG)’s operating in the UK and overseas. Using the latest techniques, you’ll disrupt and apprehend high-threat criminal immigration focused activities, build cases, and bring criminals to justice. The primary aim of this team is to take forward investigations into the organised groups who are facilitating the illegal movement of migrants.

The post requires a commitment to working flexibly, including weekend working, shift working and will involve some travel throughout the UK as well as working away from home, including overnight stays where necessary.

The successful candidate will join an established team, and undertake all duties relevant to the Chief Immigration Officer grade including:

• Leading and directing investigative syndicates through effective decision making and use of recognised action management principles.
• Acting as the lead investigator in the most serious and complex cases or otherwise acting as the senior investigating officer.
• Managing and monitoring of investigations to ensure progress towards disruption targets.
• Providing quality assurance of investigations.
• Assisting with operational activity and taking responsibility for investigations and operations.
• Building and maintaining effective working relationships with other law enforcement partners and stakeholders.
• Attending court when required to give evidence.
• Ensuring compliance with Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act (CPIA) and Home Office policy, procedures and professional standards.
• Managing a team of Immigration Officer Criminal Investigators.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo and pass a health assessment, which is usually repeated every three years (although this can sometimes be yearly for specific health reasons).

If not already trained successful candidates will also need to be arrest trained to PST level 3 and pass an annual PST refresher to enable them to undertake operational activity (this may be residential depending on location).

There will be a requirement to attend court to give evidence. All Criminal and Financial Investigation staff are required to disclose any adverse judicial decisions or internal disciplinary matters under CPIA. Applicants need to bear this in mind when considering their eligibility for this post.

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:

• Previous experience of leading complex crime investigations, including a comprehensive understanding (through practical application) of relevant legislation, and ability to lead a team of investigators of varying experience.
• A professional accreditation of PIP2 level (see qualifications below) is mandatory.
• Experience of taking complex investigations to court, of working collaboratively with CPS and Counsel and have demonstrated fortitude in this pressurised environment.
• An all-round awareness of the specialist functions associated with complex crime investigation such as use of POCA, surveillance, exploitation of digital devices, operational planning and public protection.
• A good understanding of immigration legislation and the ability to consider non-prosecution disruption methods.
• Ability to work collaboratively across law enforcement and government; maximising the opportunity to work in partnership with others to enhance the reach and reputation of Immigration Enforcement.
• Excellent leadership skills and be focused on the development of others.

Applicants should note that it is a requirement of the post that arrest and criminal investigation accreditation is achieved and maintained.

Due to the nature of the work and the geographical area, some travel by official vehicle will be inevitable and applicants must hold a valid full UK manual driving licence.

Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) Level 2 (see attached guidance).

The post holder must be an experienced investigator with a proven background in leading serious and complex investigations. A professional accreditation of PIP2 is mandatory.

Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) is a four level accreditation programme under the auspices of the National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing. Those officers accredited at PIP Level 2 will have successfully passed the National Investigators Examination and undertaken the Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme (ICIDP) course plus Tier 2 Interviewing and demonstrated operational competence through completion of a work-based portfolio which will have undergone assessment and verification in force prior to being substantively awarded the title of detective. Officers who were in a detective role prior to 2005 may have obtained legacy accreditation based upon having completed the ten-week CID course and exhibited operational competence in role. Evidence of both routes should be available from either Force or certification. Evidence of recent valid accreditation from the date of application must be produced. Evidence is acceptable in either certification or by advising a point of contact in force/previous role with whom we can confirm accreditation. This will be requested during the sift process.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Making Effective Decisions

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

This position is based at HMYOI DRAKE HALL ECCLESHALL, ST21 6LQ

Please refer to Job Description

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Overview of the job 

This is an administrative job in an establishment.

Summary

The job holder will provide administrative support to the Security and Intelligence Department maintaining administration systems within specified timescales for the establishment.

This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

•    Collate, process and allocate intelligence- associated documentation including Security Information Report (SIRs) for investigation
•    Sending mobile phones, SIM cards and hardware discs (along with related documentation) to National Dogs Tactical Support Group (NDTSG), logging the information extracted beforehand
•    Assist the Intelligence Analyst by extracting and matching Security files with SIRs
•    Carry out back-ups for the Security Intelligence System, download data for the SIRs register to the National Intelligence Unit and perform data back-ups for the National Prisoner Information Number (PIN) Phone System
•    Collate and distribute monthly targets for searching and mandatory drug tests to all residential units
•    Undertake Violent Sex Offender Register (VISOR) administration
•    Co-ordinate translation of security related communications
•    Process on-line address searches, national police checks, data access requests and  direct surveillance applications
•    Complete proforma to inform prisoner of withheld correspondence
•    Authorise visitor entry to the establishment and inform the gate staff in liaison with relevant line manager
•    Submit requisitions for stores as necessary for the security area and staff
•    Complete escort paperwork, including route forms, Prisoner Escort Records (PERs) and  escape packs regarding security issues for court attendance
•    Acts as the vetting contact point, meeting people to check identification and verify identity documents (provided as originals), liaising with Shared Service Centre to apply for security clearance
•    Undertake Mandatory Drug Testing administration
•    Log key register/key tallies/car park passes/car registrations
•    Log security files( in and out)  and assess risk content
•    Log all security – related information including development nominals, stoppages of contact, Incident Reporting System (IRS) Input
•    Disseminate reports to relevant stakeholders
•    Monitor all mail, on both ad-hoc and intelligence- led basis
•    Monitor and log  issue of identification (ID) cards, including lost ID cards
•    Monitor and log security clearance for prisoners working in workshops
 
Undertake other administrative tasks including:

•    Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for area of work
•    Act as contact point for all communications to the team. Prioritise and distribute communications to the appropriate person or relevant department in establishment
•    Complete monitoring returns for area of work
•    Input requisitions on to the finance database and process requisitions for defined area of work
•    Co-ordinate any awareness sessions for area of work
•    Prepare paperwork for checking by manager, conducting initial checks as required
•    Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to ensure that they are aware of information so that information is adequately shared
•    Maintain and check establishment databases, manual filing systems and logs of information, responding within agreed timescales and producing reports as required
•    Collate information relating to relevant Service Delivery Indicators (SDI’s)
•    Act as secretary to meetings as required including organising agenda, taking and, distributing minutes and action points

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

Please refer to Job Description

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £25,752, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £6,978 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Birmingham, Leeds, London

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have experience in quality assuring data, ensuring the integrity and reliability of that data so that a variety of stakeholders can make informed decisions?

Are you someone who can identify and resolve data reconciliation issues effectively?

Can you collaborate well with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Please note: This is a part-time position, if successful you will be required to work 18.5 hours per week covering a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This salary is pro-rata so is exactly 50% of the full time salary.

The Transport Security Directorate (TSD), works across the Department for Transport (DfT), His Majesty’s Government (HMG) and with partners to mitigate the threats the transport sector faces domestically and internationally.

We are looking for a part-time Performance and Assurance Analyst to join the Aviation Security International Operations (ASIO) division, which sits within TSD. ASIO leads on high profile work to implement and improve the transport sector’s aviation security regimes, as well as working with international partners to raise global standards and build capability in priority countries. As the national security threats to aviation evolve, we are working across DfT to ensure that these issues are reflected in the Department’s work to ensure that we balance UK prosperity with security objectives.

The successful candidate will quality assure the assessments of security capabilities in our priority countries, strictly aligning with guidance established from international regulations to guarantee accuracy. Your role will see you regularly collaborate with other teams to ensure the assessment data collected is of the highest quality. You will work on continuously improving the established guidance. You will think innovatively and be confident to communicate any issues and solutions with teams across the division to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness in our delivery processes.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Gather, validate, and analyse performance information relating to ASIO business performance both internally and externally.
• Identify and address data reconciliation issues by collaborating with relevant teams and individuals, striving for effective solutions.
• Report on performance metrics, ensuring ASIO leadership team are sighted on areas of sub-optimal outcomes.
• Conduct data assurance across ASIO operations, ensuring compliance with agreed data collation standards. Perform quality assurance on all airport assessments and additional measures activities data, maintaining consistency between scores, narratives, and codified answers.
• Collaborate with the Insight and Product teams within the same value stream to share information and data, facilitating analysis, product development, and thematic activities.
• Actively contribute insights to enhance the overall quality of assessment data and the established guidance that underpins the assessment programme.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

About you

We are looking for someone who has exceptional communication skills and can express themselves in a confident and concise manner with colleagues at all levels. You will represent the department both professionally and clearly, ensuring key messages are delivered to both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion. You can build rapport quickly with both internal and external stakeholders which enables you to build solid working relationships.

Excellent organisational skills are required and you will be able to manage and filter workflow, as well as organise and prioritise your work to maximise productivity and achieve all deadlines. You will be highly adaptable and flexible, adjusting to the requirements of the role.

Additional Information

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. 

As a division that works on threat-related issues, we expect our staff to work flexibly and adapt to rapidly changing requirements and priorities across the teams. The nature of the work means that the role may require out of hours working to respond to incidents.

Due to business needs, you may be required to work flexibly to meet demands of the role. This may mean working outside of core business hours. If this is the case, you will, under departmental policies, be able to claim time back for any additional hours worked.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it’s like working at the Department for Transport .