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Job summary
Do you have experience of using intelligence when working in a regulatory authority delivering official food controls or when working in another regulatory authority?
If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as our Senior Intelligence Officer, and we’d love to hear from you!
The FSA is a non-ministerial department of over 1400 people. We play a critical role in protecting public health and consumers’ wider interests in food across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our vision is an important one – to drive change, delivering “food you can trust” and working towards a healthier and more sustainable food system.
You will work across the Strategic, Regulatory Compliance Directorate (SRCD) to develop the required capacity and capability to use intelligence to deliver and maintain food standards in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
You’ll be pivotal in the gathering and assessing of intelligence and how delivery partners can use intelligence to implement the food standards delivery model from 2024 onwards, and initially across England and Northern Ireland (a pilot implementation is ongoing in Wales), and to otherwise use intelligence to ensure food is safe and what it says it is. You’ll contribute to ensuring the role of intelligence and intelligence led activities are fully integrated within the new approach to the delivery of food standards official controls.
Job description
Within your role you will:
- Contribute to ensuring the role of intelligence and intelligence led activities is fully integrated internally and with external delivery partners in the new approach to the delivery of food standards official controls;
- Support the FSA Intelligence Considerations Meeting through attendance, referral and discussion as well as providing the required secretarial support;
- Promote and demonstrate the value of using intelligence to maintain foods standards;
- Develop and deliver required training on the delivery model, not solely the intelligence components thereof;
- Build and/or maintain existing relationships with delivery partners to ensure that intelligence flows are effective;
- Provide support to develop intelligence and especially where its use can add value to problem solving chronic food standards issues as may be identified;
- Report as necessary to line managers and Business Delivery group and Executive Management Team on relevant issues as and when required.
This list is not exhaustive. The FSA continues to develop its approach to intelligence led/directed working. There will be a need to reasonably and necessarily flex and change for business needs.
As this is an investigatory / intelligence role we need to be aware if any of our employees have any of the following: any misconduct or gross misconduct findings or where proceedings are not complete. You will be asked to complete a declaration form covering the above if offered a role with the FSA.
You must declare to the best of your knowledge:
- Any disciplinary finding of guilt / failure to meet the appropriate standard of conduct relating to your employment you have ever had
- Any charge of a disciplinary offence / notification of a failure to meet the appropriate standards you have ever had where the case has not yet been concluded
The disclosure of this information will not automatically disbar you from this role but we need to be aware of any event or issue which could impinge on your credibility if questioned in court.
Person specification
Please read the attached Candidate Pack to discover further details about the role, our organisation, who we are looking for and the criteria we will assess against during the selection process.
We look forward to receiving your application and wish you every success.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service