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Security and Cyber Assurance Lead

The role will be based at our offices at 2-4 Cockspur Street, London, SW1Y 5BS, in central London, however please note that we are due to move to Canary Wharf in 2024. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. We are operating hybrid working arrangements that require staff to be in Cockspur Street 40% of their working pattern.

Job summary

Would you like the opportunity to gain experience, knowledge and develop new skills working for an elite law enforcement agency dedicated to combatting serious and complex fraud, bribery and corruption, within the UK’s Civil Service?

Based in the SFO Departmental Security Unit, the Security and Cyber Assurance Lead will report to the Security Advisor. You will have an understanding of how security risks may impact delivery of the SFO’s strategic objectives. You will be responsible for security assurance activity, providing confidence to senior leaders and stakeholders that risks are effectively managed and within security risk appetite.

Working alongside Information Technology and other internal colleagues and drawing on government security expertise, you will seek to improve the SFO’s security posture, helping the SFO protect its assets in response to known threats.

You will lead on assurance activity with the aim of achieving compliance with mandated government security standards (Departmental Security Health Check, HMG Cyber Security Strategy (GovAssure), Technology Change Projects and Supply Chain Assurance).

You will carry out auditing to maintain accreditation and access to third party systems, and support the security function by providing security advice, drafting security policy, and supporting cyber security awareness.

You will work with the Security Advisor on Incident Management and Business Continuity Planning (BCP), ensuring plans are in place to support business resilience and are tested regularly to effectively manage and recover from unexpected incidents.

Job description

As a Security and Cyber Assurance Lead, you will be responsible for:

  • Managing the Security and Business Continuity Risk Registers ensuring risks are identified, controls are implemented and risks are escalated appropriately;
  • Maintaining an effective working relationship with Information Technology colleagues, working closely with the IT Cyber Security Lead, assessing supply chain, technology change and project portfolio cyber security risk; help build risk management and Secure by Design principles into business and project plans;
  • Managing the Incident Management and Business Continuity Planning cycle, ensuring response and resilience plans are tested and coordinate lessons learnt recommendations so that they are implemented;
  • Collating accurate and timely audit records of SFO access to third party systems as required in line with up to date system security operating procedures enabling accreditation to be maintained by SFO to support the delivery of SFO business;
  • Leading on the promotion of cyber security standards and best practice assurance activity with the aim of achieving compliance with mandated government security standards (Departmental Security Health Check, GovAssure – HMG Cyber Security Strategy) by engaging with stakeholders and ensuring submissions are completed and submitted within necessary timescales.
  • Providing security advice and guidance to SFO staff drawing on government security expertise, best practice or information sources as necessary to ensure SFO assets, people and information are protected.
  • Supporting security colleagues in the Departmental Security Unit and collaborating with stakeholders when required to do so to ensure security activity is prioritised and delivered in order to support strategic SFO business plans.

Person specification

See above and attached Job Pack.

Behaviours

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

  • Changing and Improving
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Seeing the Big Picture
Alongside your salary of £41,796, Serious Fraud Office contributes £11,284 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme. For further details, click here http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions

Generous annual leave provision of 25 days which increases to 30 days after five years’ service plus an additional day in recognition of the King’s Birthday and the option to buy or sell up to five days’ leave per year. Different terms may apply if you are already a Civil Servant.

Discretionary performance-related bonus scheme.

Interest-free season travel ticket, bicycle loan and cycle to work scheme.

Access to the Rental Deposit Salary Advance Scheme which assists employees in meeting the costs of deposits for privately rented homes.

Opportunities for learning and development.

Flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies.

Voucher for eye care and discounted spectacles.

Access to a range of discounts through membership of the Civil Service Sports and Social Club, CSSC Sports and Leisure. http://www.cssc.co.uk/

Maternity and paternity leave provision over and above the statutory entitlements.

Access to My CPS Rewards Gateway. My CPS Rewards offers staff a range of rewards and savings including:

  • Discounts with high street retailers
  • Savings on grocery shopping at a range of supermarkets
  • Special salary sacrifice and recognition schemes
  • Reloadable gift cards and e-cards
  • Instant vouchers

Any move to the Serious Fraud Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

National Counter Terrorism Coordination Manager

Belfast Regional Centre- Erskine House, 20-32 Chichester Street, Belfast, BT1 4GF, Birmingham Regional Centre- 3 Arena Central, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2DE, Bristol Regional Centre- 3 Glass Wharf, Avon Street, Temple Quarter, Bristol, BS2 0ES, Cardiff Regional Centre- Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS, Croydon Regional Centre- 1 Ruskin Square, Croydon, CR0 2WF, Edinburgh Regional Centre- Queen Elizabeth House, 1 Sibbald Walk, Edinburgh, EH8 8FT, Leeds Regional Centre, 7&8 Wellington Place, Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4AP, Liverpool Regional Centre- India Building, 31 Water Street, City Centre, Liverpool, L2 0RD, Manchester Regional Centre- 3 New Bailey Square, New Bailey Street, Salford, M3 5AY, Newcastle Regional Centre- Benton Park View, Longbenton, Newcastle, NE98 1ZZ, Nottingham Regional Centre- Unity Square, Nottingham, NG2 1NL, Stratford Regional Centre- 14 Westfield Avenue, Stratford, London E20 1HZ, Glasgow Regional Centre- 1 Atlantic Square, 21 York Street, Glasgow, G2 8HS

Job summary

Do you have experience in Incident Management?

Are you comfortable planning and delivering our preparedness in response to existing and new threats and risks?

Have you got the drive to lead our counter terrorism security education and awareness programme?

If you’re thinking yes, then you should be thinking about a career within Counter Terrorism at HMRC!

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Counter Terrorism team, where we work to keep our people, buildings, and assets safe and secure. We will support you, as you work with various business leaders to achieve positive outcomes in relation to Counter Terrorism Incident Management and preparedness, using your knowledge to give operational security advice and deliver decisions at pace.

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.

Job description

Here are some of the things you’ll be responsible for as our Senior Counter Terrorism Coordination Manager:

  • Establish and maintain up-to-date critical communication networks.
  • Schedule the annual Counter Terrorism assurance timetable and exercising/testing programme, ensuring all key stakeholders have the opportunity to feed into site reviews; organise periodic reviews of recommendations to ensure timely action/implementation.
  • Support the Incident Control Officer (ICO) national network, providing leadership and guidance in applying counter terrorism guidance, instructions and preparedness across the estate.
  • Manage and develop the education and awareness programme.
  • Organise and manage incident After Action Reviews, involve key stakeholders, manage implementation of actions.
  • Collate detailed data relating to incidents, threats, risks, information and intel; process, analyse and use data in an innovative way to reduce risk.
  • Contribute to, and where appropriate lead, projects to research, plans and deliver enhanced capability and/or preparedness – in response to new threats, new regulations, developments in perceived best practice, etc.
  • Carry out open-source research to identify threats and risks.

Please note this role is focused on operational security, not cyber security.

Working Hours

Due to the nature of this role, we will require you to work outside of normal hours, on a rota. You will be ‘on call’ to respond if any Counter Terrorism or security advice is needed. Additionally, there will be travel to other offices and the occasional overnight stay.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

  • Experience of operational security, Counter Terrorism or Incident Management and preparedness.
  • Experience of balancing changing priorities at short notice within a fast-paced environment.
  • Recent experience leading impromptu situations.
  • Providing leadership and direction.
  • Demonstrable experience building strong relationships across all levels of an organisation.
  • Ability to quickly analyse and interpret information, make informed decisions, engage stakeholders, and deliver business-focused solutions.
  • A passion for proactively keeping up-to-date with the latest relevant industry developments.

Desirable Criteria:

  • On appointment applicants should be prepared to complete a L5 BTEC (security management) qualification (if not already completed or currently working towards).
  • An equivalent security management accredited course (L5) would be considered against the criteria.
  • Government Commercial College Contract Management Foundation Level – if not held already must be willing to complete within two years of appointment.

Security Check

Security Check (SC) vetting is a requirement of the role, if this isn’t already held, or cannot be transferred, then a new application should be made immediately upon appointment.

Behaviours

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

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Working Together

Technical skills

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

  • Professional/technical expertise at practitioner level.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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.

Intelligence Officer – Anti -Corruption Unit (ACU)

Crawley, Warrington

Job summary

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.***

Job description

ACU Summary 
The NCA’S dedicated Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) works within the NCA’s Integrated Protective Security command.  Our role is to safeguard the Agency, secure its assets, and defend its standards, whilst promoting a safe, inclusive and professional environment.

Our priorities are to: ensure the integrity of the NCA’s officers and operations; relentlessly disrupt those engaged in corruption within the NCA, impacting upon the NCA, and in support to partners; and develop capabilities and best practice, including sharing best practice with national/international partners and raising awareness of the threat.  
  
The ACU looks into all allegations of corruption against its officers, working to either prove or disprove these allegations to protect both the agency’s officers and activity. We carry out covert investigations into corrupt activity within, and impacting upon, the NCA. We also investigate organised crime groups and others seeking to penetrate the NCA and conduct activity to identify and investigate corruption within the agency.
  
We also provide regular support to partners, through intelligence development and providing specialist operational capability, and work closely with other government departments to tackle wider public sector corruption.

The Anti-Corruption Unit also carry out detailed analysis and investigations into:  
 
• Disclosure of Information
• Sexual Misconduct
• Inappropriate Association
• Misuse of Force Systems
• Theft and Fraud
• Abuse of Authority
• Controlled Drug Use & Supply
• Vulnerability
• Infiltration

Person specification

About the Roles


This is an exciting opportunity to join the NCA’s Anti-Corruption Unit working in a multi-functional dynamic team, alongside investigators and SIOs investigating the complex corruption threat to law enforcement. We are looking for officers experienced in intelligence to support the following ACU teams:


ACU Intelligence Co-ordination Cell


Key Responsibilities

  • Participate in intelligence development, assessment and dissemination in support of NCA and partner anti-corruption operations, and build knowledge of law enforcement corruption linked to serious and organised crime.
  • Manage the intelligence flow on tasked operations, liaising directly with operational officers, and providing intelligence support during enforcement activity.
  • Manage sensitive intelligence, maintaining confidentiality and duty of care in accordance with NCA policy and legislation.
  • Support partners to develop their response to corruption matters nationally and internationally.
  • Demonstrate the highest levels of integrity.

ACU Borders / Insider Threat 

Key Responsibilities

  • Participate in intelligence development, assessment and dissemination in support of NCA and partner anti-corruption insider threat / border corruption operations, and build knowledge of private sector corruption at the border and its links to serious organised crime
  • Manage the intelligence flow on tasked operations, liaising directly with operational officers, and proving intelligence support during enforcement activity
  • Manage sensitive intelligence, maintaining confidentiality and duty of care in accordance with NCA policy and legislation
  • Support partners to develop their response to corruption matters nationally and internationally
  • Demonstrate the highest levels of integrity

Qualifications

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

IPP Intelligence Officer certification or equivalent experience.

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.

Behaviours

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

  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

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

  • Experience of identifying and managing risk
  • Experience of researching, gathering, evaluating and structuring intelligence in law enforcement, defence or national security. The ability to utilise a range of techniques, tools and resources to achieve this.
  • Good knowledge of relevant legislation and policy within law enforcement, defence or national security
Alongside your salary of £34,672, National Crime Agency contributes £9,729 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).

DIO – Ministry of Defence Guard Service – Security Officer Shift Worker

Wyvern Barracks, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 6AR

Job summary

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be Proud; Be Challenging: Be Unique.

Job description

The Challenge:

Do you want to join the 2021 Government Security team of the year and be part of our Gold Standard security service?

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) provides high quality security services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. We provide access control, military working dogs, control room operations and other security services. We play a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and work to protect the defence estate and personnel from crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage threats.

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and employs over 2,500 staff. MGS Officers are often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on our professional, customer-focused culture.

All our Security Officers are required to have excellent customer service skills and must be willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the defence estate. Due to the high profile and strategic locations of the sites we guard, it is essential our Security Officers have a strong work ethic, are able to work as part of a team, are observant to threats and are capable to challenge and de-escalate difficult situations if required. We also require our Security Officers to have good written and verbal communication skills. Our Officers must have resilience and remain positive and friendly in all weather conditions and on all occasions.

We provide our staff with a market leading salary, excellent sickness benefits, together with a defined benefit civil service pension. Free full uniform will be provided.

We are a growing organisation with opportunities for good quality staff to progress their security careers.

The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities and from all types of working backgrounds.

See more information about the MGS, please read the candidate pack and watch our Security Officer YouTube video https://youtu.be/nzSK9OPOoDI

About MGS:

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide a range of security services at over 160 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The mission of the MGS is to protect Defence from threats including crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage.

The MGS employs over 2,700 security officers and support staff. Our security services include a large Military Working Dog (MWD) division with 11 units across the country, Control Room Operations, Static and Mobile security duties including access control, visitor access, traffic management, and foot patrols.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

Person specification

Main Responsibilities

  • Controlling vehicular and pedestrian access and exit to/from site
  • Issue of passes using site IT systems
  • Reporting of environmental issues
  • Issue and receipt of keys
  • Patrolling on foot and in a vehicle
  • Searching of vehicles, baggage, personnel, buildings and open areas
  • Escorting visitors
  • Traffic management
  • Checking identity on site (ad hoc)
  • Writing reports on breaches of security or defects and maintaining daily logs
  • Referral of complaints
  • Reporting MGS infrastructure defects
  • Dealing with demonstrators and intruders as directed by those holding operational control
  • Safeguarding classified information and material
  • Cooperating with other security providers
  • Collaborating with emergency services and invoking emergency procedures
  • Operating and monitoring security systems; CCTV and alarms etc
  • Operating and communicating effectively over the telephone and/or radio
  • Reporting safety hazards and accidents in accordance with current instructions
  • Carrying out, if required, initial action at the scene of any incident
  • Other tasks commensurate with the grade

Travel Requirements

Where close area working arrangements are in place staff may be required to attend other sites within their travel to work area (one hour from their home) on a detached duty basis.

Desirable Experience & Skills:

A background, qualification or demonstrable interest in the delivery of site security and/or customer service will be an advantage.

Behaviours

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

  • Leadership
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Communicating and Influencing
Alongside your salary of £30,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £8,100 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

  • Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
  • Free Uniform
  • 25 days (215 hours) annual leave rising (1 day per year, 8.6 hours) to 30 days (258) upon completion of 5 years’ service
  • Ability to roll over up to 10 days (86 hours) annual leave per year
  • Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
  • Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
  • Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and / or site shops

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Learning & Development

  • Professional and Personal Development of skills
  • Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO
  • Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

Employment Hours

48 hours (including breaks) based on full time. This is a shift working position. The successful candidate will be expected to work nights, weekends, bank holidays etc. The exact shift pattern will be explained in full during the interview. This is a shift working position due to site requirements.

Medical

MGS applicants are required to attend a medical appointment to undertake a colour perception test

About DIO

DIO is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a diverse range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling our people to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQ+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs and we encourage you to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

DIO commits to offer its employees the following experience: 

  • Meaningful, purposeful work
  • The ability to learn and grow
  • The right opportunities and resources
  • To care about your wellbeing
  • To feel valued and included

Our responsibilities include:

  • Plan and deliver major capital projects and lifecycle refurbishment
  • Provide utilities services
  • Manage soft facilities management (i.e. cleaning and catering)
  • Provide a safe place to train
  • Allocate Service Families Accommodation
  • Procure and manage routine maintenance and reactive repair
  • Provide a central register of asset information to advise infrastructure planning
  • Act as steward of the Defence estate
  • Provide the unarmed guarding service
  • The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert for Defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.

We employ approximately 4,900 staff from a very diverse range of professions, and we work across the world; in Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands, Norway, Poland, Kenya, Belize, Nepal and Oman.

You can view our YouTube video to see more about our work https://www.youtube.com/embed/I9tLu3UdiGY?rel=0

Physical and Personnel Security Lead & Transformation (UKSV)

This role will be based in either York or Glasgow. UKSV operates a hybrid working policy. There is flexibility to split your working week but with a minimum requirement of 40-60% in the listed Cabinet Office Hubs.

Job summary

This role will be responsible for planning and executing activity across the Physical and Personnel Security spectrum. They will ensure that the in place Security Program is enacted as per direction, whilst ensuring that they engage a holistic view of protective security management. This role will have particular responsibility for 1 Atlantic Square, other UKSV and associated stakeholder locations.

Job description

As a Physical and Personnel Security Lead & Transformation your key duties will include but not be limited to: 

  • Mitigate insider Threat through effective Physical and Personnel security practices. 
  • Help create and support a robust Insider Threat Strategy as part of the security program, including training and reporting mechanisms. 
  • Imbed robust security behaviours into UKSV. 
  • Take part in planning and execution of the Security Program – leading on the Physical and Personnel aspects.
  •  Investigate and report on local physical and personnel security issues. 
  • Keep records of incidents and risks, using this data to implement policy/procedures based on lessons learned. 
  • Support Vetting Transformation by providing expert advice on security issues to Heads of Department and other staff in UKSV.
  • Engage with and work alongside the Cabinet Office Security team to ensure alignment with wider Cabinet Office strategy, policy and practice.
  • Assist with exercises and risk assessment for UKSV departments, liaising with wider governmental units for support to test resilience, maturity and implementing lessons learned.
  • Assist in designing and delivering security training/awareness sessions.

Person specification

As Physical and Personnel Security Lead & Transformation  within UK Security Vetting, we are looking for people who have the following expertise and attributes: 

  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. 
  • Ability to gather and analyse information from a variety of sources and using judgement to make decisions.
  • Ability to build, and maintain, relationships with a variety of stakeholders. 
  • Able to create a positive and inclusive environment, being approachable regarding sensitive matters.
  • Ability to identify security risk, carry out assessment and suggest mitigation practices.

Behaviours

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

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Changing and Improving
  • Seeing the Big Picture

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

  • Making Effective Decisions
Alongside your salary of £40,850, Cabinet Office contributes £11,029 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role.
  • An environment with flexible working options.
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
  • Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
  • A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.
  • This role will be based in either York or Glasgow. UKSV operates a hybrid working policy. There is flexibility to split your working week but with a minimum requirement of 40-60% in the listed Cabinet Office Hubs.

DIO – Ministry of Defence Unarmed Guard Service – Area Assurance Manager

HMNB Clyde G84 8HL

Job summary

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique.

DIO is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a diverse range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling our people to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs and we encourage you to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

DIO commits to offer its employees the following experience: 

  • Meaningful, purposeful work
  • The ability to learn and grow
  • The right opportunities and resources
  • To care about your wellbeing
  • To feel valued and included

About DIO:

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert for Defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.

Our responsibilities include: 

  • Plan and deliver major capital projects and lifecycle refurbishment
  • Provide utilities services
  • Manage soft facilities management (i.e. cleaning and catering)
  • Provide a safe place to train
  • Allocate Service Families Accommodation
  • Procure and manage routine maintenance and reactive repair
  • Provide a central register of asset information to advise infrastructure planning
  • Act as steward of the Defence estate
  • Provide the unarmed guarding service

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide unarmed guarding services at over 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The MGS plays a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and works closely with its security partners

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and  employs over 2,500 operational and support staff. The MGS is managed by a Head Office team, dispersed strategically around the country.

MGS officers are very often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on a customer-focused culture, working to DIO’s Values as well as our own core values of honesty, integrity, professionalism and efficiency.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry, as we seek to be the unarmed  guarding provider of choice. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

We employ approximately 4,900 staff from a very diverse range of professions, and we work across the world; in Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands, Norway, Poland, Kenya, Belize, Nepal and Oman.

You can view our YouTube video to see more about our work  https://www.youtube.com/embed/I9tLu3UdiGY?rel=0

Job description

The Challenge

Do you have what it takes to be part of our Gold Standard security service?

The MGS is responsible for delivery of unarmed security services to HMNB Clyde, home of the UK submarine fleet and the UK strategic deterrent.

The postholder would be expected to attend the site office at least 3 days each week, but otherwise flexible and adaptable working arrangements can be agreed.

The post holder will lead on aspect of Assurance, Compliance and Corporate reporting, and will have overarching Line Management responsibility for the MGS Clyde Business Management Team, ensuring the delivery of support functions such as Health, Safety and Welfare, Asset Management, Communication and Engagement, Recruitment and Induction.

This is a challenging, operational support role at a high profile, nuclear site.

MGS holds the National Security Inspectorate Gold Standard and is passionate about delivering great things for its customers and workforce.

About MGS:

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide a range of security services at over 160 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The mission of the MGS is to protect Defence from threats including crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage.

The MGS employs over 2,700 security officers and support staff. Our security services include a large Military Working Dog (MWD) division with 11 units across the country, Control Room Operations, Static and Mobile security duties including access control, visitor access, traffic management, and foot patrols.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

Person specification

Main Responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for;

  • Delivery of Business management services, including line management of the MGS Clyde Business Management Team
  • Coordination, monitoring and reporting of the MGS Clyde Business Plan
  • Provision of internal audit, assurance and exercise functions, ensuring MGS Clyde governance arrangements are effective and efficient
  • Liaison with MGS Head Office, MGS Service Delivery Managers, Unit Customers and Heads of Establishments, building positive and effective relationships with all stakeholders
  • Effective communication with staff at all levels offering open forums and opportunities for staff engagement

Desirable Experience & Skills

  • Line Management experience

Licences

Full UK Driving Licence required to attend meetings and routine unit visits, some of which are remote from public Trasport Links.

Behaviours

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

  • Leadership
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Changing and Improving

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

  • Leadership
  • Managing a Quality Service
Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

We understand the importance of life outside of work and our industry leading flexible working practices, digital technology and modern workspaces will give you the opportunity to enjoy a healthy work-life balance.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

  • Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
  • 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
  • Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year
  • Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
  • Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
  • Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and / or site shops

Learning & Development

  • Professional and Personal Development of skills
  • Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO
  • Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

DIO – Project Manager

MoD Sealand, Deeside, North Wales, CH5 2LS

Job summary

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!

Learn much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached.

About DIO

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Job description

Can you support MOD with securing some of the countries’ most important buildings and locations?
This is an exciting, interesting and challenging role within Government Security at high profile and technically complex Defence sites, Other Government Departments and Critical National Infrastructure security programs.

Security Services Group (SSG) provides specialist security advice, compliance and assurance to areas of the public sector that require the highest levels of security protection. SSG is the Government’s expert provider specialising in design, installation and maintenance of both custom in-house security systems and highly accredited commercial products on the government estate. 
Working as part of a 230-person team, we provide full life support services to UK Defence and Government sites throughout the UK and overseas.

We are looking for a motivated and passionate professional to join as a Security System Project Manager in the SSG’s Central Team which has its main office at MoD Sealand, North Wales.

The position advertised will provide support in relation to the installation and maintenance of security systems across the Ministry Of Defence and Other Government Department estates.

Person specification

A security Project Manager in SSG provides a customer interface, representing SSG at high level external meetings, they will:

  • Undertake complex discussions and negotiations with SSG Project Managers and Client Security Officers for Key Project and Maintenance accounts
  • Lead (Line Manage) the dedicated “in-house” Skill Zones and sub-contractors to deliver the project and maintenance contracts to time, quality and cost
  • Provide full financial management: Estimating, Job costing, invoicing and budget management. Providing clear and detailed financial breakdown reports to the Regional Team Leader
  • Be able to interpret and develop SSG Operations and external client requirements, working to support the team to deliver functional solutions
  • Working knowledge of British, European and Government Standards relating to security together with knowledge of QA and H&S policies
  • Participate in SSG’s on-call rota
  • Full functional training will be provided for certain systems to suit the business needs

Work is predominately at SSG Customer locations across the central regions of the UK, travelling accordingly to multiple Governmental and Military sites. You will be offered the provision of a non-liveried company vehicle to work in your region including personal use (eligible for taxable benefit).

Where applicable, the following allowances are payable in addition to basic salary: travel time (where travel is external to core hours), on-call allowance, recall-to-duty allowance, environmental (Radiation) allowance, travel and subsistence package when working out of your region and overtime.

In addition, due to operational requirements, there will be a necessity for detached duty to other SSG regions (in the UK or possibly overseas) or be required to stay overnight at sites that are unsuitable distances from home address.

Further information can be obtained on enquiry.

Environmental Factors/ Hazards

The applicant may be required to undertake occasional work within Radiological and Explosive Storage areas.

Licences

Full Driving Licence
Driving a vehicle is a requirement of the job; project managers are provided with a vehicle to attend multiple customer sites which are remote and not accessible by public transport. Project manager also participate in SSG’s 24/7 On Call Rota.

Qualifications

A Recognised, relevant Engineering background, Engineering Apprenticeship and/or Engineering qualifications, i.e. Intruder Detection Systems, Perimeter Intruder Detection Systems, Video Surveillance Systems and Access Control Systems.

Behaviours

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

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Leadership
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

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

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

  • SSG Functional Competence Area 1: Electronic Security Installation – Practitioner
  • SSG Functional Competence Area 1: Physical Security Installation – Awareness
Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Highly competitive Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%.
  • Alternative working practices such as working from home.
  • Opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
  • 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service.
  • Enhanced Parental Leave.
  • Most sites have free car parking, Sports & Social Clubs, Gym, on site shops and subsidised canteens.

To learn more about our full range of benefits, view our Candidate Information Guide attached.

Allowances

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Employment Hours

The post advertised is for 37 hours net, however the Ministry of Defence offers a range of flexibilities to enable a better work-life balance for employees. Flexible working patterns will be considered. 

Senior Officer – National Extradition Unit – Joint International Crime Centre (JICC)

Warrington

Job summary

Extradition is the formal procedure for requesting the surrender of a person from one country to another for the purpose of prosecution, to be sentenced for an offence for which the person has already been convicted or to carry out a sentence which has already been imposed.

The National Extradition Unit comprises a team of officers with operational responsibility for the coordination and management of extradition related cases.

The unit:

  • Provides 24/7 tactical advice & support in all reactive extradition related encounters;
  • Receives, triages and risk assesses all incoming requests from overseas territories where the requested person is believed to have a footprint in the UK;
  • Undertakes enquiries to locate and arrest fugitives sought for extradition utilising all available tactical methods where requests are graded as medium risk, high risk or complex that are believed to be within E&W (low risk enquiries are tasked to local police forces);
  • Monitors the outcomes of court hearings, manages bail compliance and coordinates enforcement activity in relation to breaches;
  • Processes & coordinates all removals from E&W where a surrender has been ordered.
  • Provides guidance and tactical advice to law enforcement on searching for fugitives overseas.
  • Undertakes all collections where arrests of fugitives wanted by E&W are located abroad.
  • Participates in cross agency working groups & write national policy & guidance.

The unit has two hubs in London and Warrington.

**To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role.**

Job description

Responsibilities

You will lead the Warrington based operational team made up of officers from North West forces who are responsible for locating and arresting subjects wanted by foreign jurisdictions for extradition.

You will be responsible for the management of your team workload and ensuring the utilisation of all available tactics to locate and arrest subjects in a timely and effective manner.

It is expected you will bring excellent working knowledge and experience of fugitive enquiries to the role and be a confident supervisor able to drive and motivate a team.
The unit also has responsibility for the collection of subjects from abroad wanted in the UK who have had their extradition ordered, this is done on behalf of all police forces across England and Wales.

As a supervisor it is expected you will lead on the facilitation of these collections.  This includes liaising with both national and international partners, the completion of relevant paperwork including detailed risk assessments and the direct supervision of a team of officers travelling to the relevant jurisdiction to return the subject to the UK.

This role will involve shift work and unsociable hours at short notice including an on-call rota; therefore a high degree of flexibility is required.  There is a frequent requirement to travel both nationally and internationally, often at short notice.

The work of the unit can be high profile and crime types are extremely varied.

Work Involves:

  • Managing a team of officers each with a caseload of subjects wanted for extradition and ensuring the progression of appropriate and timely enquiries to locate and arrest them.
  • Supervising operational deployments across England and Wales ensuring the appropriate authorities and risk assessments are in place.
  • Quality assuring case papers to ensure they are completed to a high standard.
  • Providing advice and guidance to officers and staff nationally in relation to extradition.
  • Conducting out of hours on-call duties as a 24/7 contact point for extradition matters nationally.
  • Supervising and leading on the collection of subjects from abroad wanted in the UK.
  • Liaising extensively with both internal and external partners, including internationally, as appropriate.

Person specification

Positions available & Eligibility:

Based in Warrington. This role is a closed competition and to apply you need to be a serving police officer at the rank of Sergeant on a lateral basis.

Any applications from candidates not meeting this eligibility criteria will not progress.

We are not accepting applications from Civil Servants.

Candidates must live within reasonable (under 60 minutes) travelling distance of the NCA site in Warrington and be willing to travel frequently both nationally and internationally.

Essential Criteria:

  • Must be a serving police officer in a Home Office force.
  • Must be a response level police driver and in date with all refresher training.
  • Experience in locating offenders and fugitives from an operational practitioner and supervisory perspective.
  • Practical knowledge and experience of RIPA and IPA and their direct application to fugitive enquiries.
  • Experience of managing a broad range of covert tactics.
  • Experience in supervision of the handling and utilising of sensitive intelligence.
  • Good knowledge of communications data and its analysis in relation to fugitive enquiries.
  • Extensive experience in making informed risk assessments based on sound rationale.
  • Response trained police driver.
  • Up to date with all mandatory force training including officer safety and emergency life support.

Desirable Criteria:

  • Surveillance awareness.
  • Working knowledge of the extradition act and associated guidance.

Licences

Are you a serving police officer in a Home Office force?

Qualifications

Are you a response level police driver and in date with all refresher training?

Memberships

Please tick ‘Yes’ to confirm you have support of your SLT to apply for this secondment

Behaviours

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

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Working Together

Technical skills

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

  • Experience in locating offenders and fugitives from an operational practitioner and supervisory perspective.
  • Experience in supervising the review, risk assessment and development of intelligence.
  • Practical knowledge and experience of RIPA and IPA and their direct application to fugitive enquiries.
The successful candidate will remain on their current salary and terms and conditions for the duration of the Secondment.

Compliance & Enforcement Service Manager

Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ

Job summary

This is an exciting time to join Companies House as we have new opportunities within our Compliance & Enforcement team.

As well as delivering on an organisational wide digital transformation, Companies House is seeing the biggest changes to the way that it has operated since it was established. We have already implemented the new Register of Overseas Entities as a result of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement Act) 2022 and will now be moving forward to implement the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.

Our extensive programme of legislative reform will see us exercising extensive new powers to improve the integrity of the companies register, but also to place Companies House at the heart of the fight against Economic Crime.

These new roles sit within the Compliance & Enforcement (C&E) Service. This new service will focus on compliance and enforcement of Companies Act legal requirements and will be a central part of our transformation.

As a Service Manager you’ll be responsible for overseeing the running of an enforcement service stream either Criminal Prosecutions, Civil Litigation, Registrar’s Powers or Anti Money Laundering (AML) and identifying changes and improvements to your service.  These are key roles in developing the future direction of Companies House and ensuring we develop a Compliance and Enforcement Service that is fit for our new role in government.

If you are interested in joining us, please apply!

Job description

The roles will involve developing our approach to compliance, using our new compliance framework, and will also be involved in driving organisational delivery against key KPIs.  This service will ensure that statutory requirements are met, and non-compliance is dealt with robustly and proportionately.  The service also ensures that we seek to promote the new objectives of the registrars. 

The Registrars objectives are: 

  • To ensure that any person who is required to deliver a document to the registrar does so (and that the requirements for proper delivery are complied with).
  • To ensure that information contained in the register is accurate and that the register contains everything it ought to.
  • To ensure that records kept by the Registrar do not create a false or misleading impression to members of the public.
  • To prevent companies and others from:
    – Carrying out unlawful activities
    – Facilitating the carrying out of unlawful activities


Each role is assigned to a specific service workstream, which covers the following areas:

  • Prosecution currently includes our existing activities to prosecute directors for the non-filing of accounts and confirmation statements but going forward will include a broader range of offences, some that we are directly responsible for prosecuting and some that will be escalated to the Insolvency Service to investigate and prosecute.
  • Civil litigation will involve the wide-ranging work around how we use financial penalties and other civil legal action as a sanction to drive changes to gain compliance.
  • The ECCT Act 2023 introduces many new powers such as annotation, expedited strike off and removal that will help us disrupt criminals who use companies for illicit activity.
  • The AML space will involve enforcement activity around beneficial ownership, People with Significant Control (PSC), the Register of Overseas Entities and Authorised Company Service Providers (ACSP).


For all roles, the key responsibilities will include:

  • Overseeing the delivery of a range of projects and report progress to the Service Owner and the various governance boards.
  • Responsibility for strategic stakeholder management and growing the service with a range of enforcement partners and other government departments.
  • Working hand in hand with our Lead Prosecutor to create and develop the new service streams.
  • Collaboration with the Heads of Professions to describe the needs of the service and help Heads of Professions to identify and help shape the right capability (teams, roles, skills).
  • Working closely with Intelligence Hub colleagues to set the strategic and tactical direction for operational colleagues.
  • Creating and managing internal Service Level Agreements which deliver to Service Owner’s requirements.
  • Identifying and prioritising any delivery issues and tracking service metrics to ensure continued value for money.
  • Understanding customer insight and user research relating to the service and able to translate these into service improvements.
  • Defining the benefits and outcomes for service improvements and track delivery.
  • Monitoring the budget to ensure service is operating within agreed parameters.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, we are looking for a candidate who has:

  • Experience of working in a compliance, enforcement or service delivery role.
  • An understanding of translating policy and legislative requirements into service delivery.
  • Experience of strategic thinking and leadership.
  • The ability to develop effective working relationships and engage with staff and a range of stakeholders at all levels to achieve the desired service outcomes.
  • The ability to clearly articulate vision and strategy and use influencing skills to obtain buy in and engagement from others – internal and external to Companies House.
  • Experience of building capability in teams to meet current and future skills requirements.
  • The ability to work collaboratively with heads of function and heads of profession to develop and implement plans to achieve the CH strategy and goals.

Behaviours

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

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Changing and Improving
  • Delivering at Pace
Alongside your salary of £50,932, Companies House contributes £14,210 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Join us at Companies House and experience the difference of working within a culture that values you, not only as an employee, but as an integral part of our Companies House team.

We believe that our success is driven by the wellbeing and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices. To find out more, please visit our Careers Page .

**Home Office Intelligence – Immigration Enforcement – Field Intelligence Officer

Castle Donington – Pembroke House

Job summary

Home Office Intelligence brings together a number of existing teams involved in the collection and analysis of border and immigration related intelligence. It delivers Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watchlisting capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement. Learn more on the HO Intelligence careers page.

Job description

The Operational Intelligence Units (OIUs) are part of Home Office Intelligence. OIU’s are building capability to proactively gather intelligence and develop thematic intelligence campaigns, leading to operational activity that has a significant impact on immigration abuse within our geographical remit.

The OIU’s are responsible for the proactive collection of information concerning immigration abuse and the assessment of new information/intelligence received, in line with local, regional and national priorities. Intelligence gathered is turned into operational packages for disruption, (for example by enforcement teams) as well as developed into campaigns to disrupt thematic immigration abuse.

A vacancy has arisen within the East Midlands Operational Intelligence Unit (OIU) for proactive, engaging individuals with drive and enthusiasm. The role will offer the opportunity for them to develop intelligence skills and to interact with a variety of internal and external partners.

The successful candidates will be required to gather and develop intelligence, as directed by the Field Intelligence Manager, in order to deliver Home Office Intelligence priorities.

This post is a shift working role and is being advertised on the Home Office annual hours working terms and conditions and attracts an Annual Hours Working allowance (AHW).  This is an additional percentage paid monthly on top of base salary(see Further Information for more details).

Your initial rate will be confirmed when you have started in post and will be paid as a percentage of your basic salary. The current AHW rate for an arrest trained Field Intelligence Officer is 19.83% If a member of staff has agreed an AHW arrangement, this does not become a permanent or guaranteed right.

Annualised hours working is subject to changes in operational needs and management can adjust, cease or suspend it, for operational or performance reasons. There are no other attendance related allowances.

Due to the nature of the work and the geographical area, travel by official vehicle will be required so applicants should have a full valid UK manual driving licence.

The successful candidates are expected to complete and pass Personal Safety Training (PST) level 3.

Person specification

Key responsibilities include (but not limited to):

•  Proactively gather, research, develop and disseminate intelligence in the appropriate format.

•  Actively seek to develop relationships with both internal and external business partners in order to identify new work streams/sources of intelligence to develop high quality intelligence products for enforcement teams and criminal investigations.

•  Proactively undertake field visits to develop intelligence by visiting employers and stakeholders.

•  Provide intelligence support to the Immigration Compliance Enforcement (ICE) teams deployed in the field, actively participating in operational visits in order to direct the gathering of intelligence.

•  To fill Intelligence gaps in line with tasking, undertaking debriefing of individuals where necessary and engaging with sources to identify and refer covert human intelligence opportunities.

•  To focus on generating and developing regional campaign activity as directed by the Field Intelligence Manager and in adherence with standard operating procedure (SOP) instructions.

Training

The role of intelligence is continuing to develop within the Home Office as we aim to professionalise roles through staff training and qualifications. The successful candidates will work towards an Intelligence Professionalisation Programme (IPP) accreditation within the first year in post. The Home Office is also developing an IPP career pathway framework to set out how intelligence practitioners can proactively move between IPP organisations to improve their intelligence knowledge and skills sets.

The successful candidates must pass their Immigration Enforcement training and Immigration Enforcement Personal Safety Training (PST) Level 3 and arrest training. This will involve passing a health assessment and completing the required arrest training in order to fulfil any intelligence gathering requirements when deployed with an ICE arrest team.

They must complete the required training in order to fulfil any intelligence gathering requirements when deployed with an ICE arrest team and will be required to wear a uniform when undertaking any arrest duties.

Candidates will also be required to undergo mandatory refresher arrest training every 12 months and must continue to meet the required health and fitness standards via annual health assessments.

As these are warranted roles with the powers of arrest, it is an essential requirement to complete the requisite training and the roles are conditional on passing a mandatory training programme, which will include a health fitness assessment, Enforcement training (4-week course) and Arrest training (2-week course). Other additional training focusing on the intelligence aspect of the role will also be provided.

Essential criteria

Successful candidate must have:

  • Experience of working in an intelligence and or/law enforcement environment.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal and organisational skills.
  • Ability to analyse and present information to a high standard.
  • Experience of building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
  • Ability to perform in a fast past environment.
  • Good working knowledge of IT for example Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable criteria 

  • Experience of Intelligence/investigation experience.
  • Experience of Forgery detection.
  • Researching/analysing data to draw key conclusions.
  • Experience of UK Immigration law and previous stakeholder and partner engagement would also be highly desirable.

Licences

Full valid UK Manual Driving licence required.

Behaviours

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

  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Leadership
  • Making Effective Decisions

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

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

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