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MOD Corsham, Guardroom, West Wells RD, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9NR, DSTL Portsdown West, Portsdown Hill road,Fareham, Hampshire, PO17 6AD, DSTL Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JQ

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.

The key duties of a Security Officer are as follows.

Please note that these duties can vary from site to site.

• 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 interest in the delivery of site security and/or customer service will be an advantage.

Full UK driving licence due to site taskings.

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:

• A 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) 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.

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

This position is based at HM Prison Mount, HP3 0NZ

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.

This is a Part Time – Job Share role (19 hours Tuesday-Thursday)

Overview of the job    

HMPPS’s efforts to tackle corruption are integral to delivering safe and secure prisons and probation. HMPPS has worked with MoJ to identify that a new approach is needed to ensure we remain resilient to this key operational threat.

HMPPS has developed a future strategy for tackling corruption in HMPPS based on four key objectives:

•    ‘Protect’ against corruption by building an open and resilient organisation;
•    ‘Prevent’ people from engaging in corruption, strengthen professional integrity;
•    ‘Pursue’ and punish those who are corrupt; and
•    ‘Prepare’ for corruption, reducing its impacts on our teams.

These objectives will need to be delivered at every level through prisons and probation, in particular, strengthening our resilience on the front line. Security, Order and Counter Terrorism (SOCT) Directorate is taking forward improvements, including restructuring the Counter Corruption Unit, to provide senior operational leaders, prisons and probation teams with an improved counter-corruption service.

This role is non-operational with no line management responsibilities and is not rotational.

Summary    

The role sits in the newly restructured Counter Corruption Unit (CCU). Its objectives are to support prisons and probation to manage corruption threats, in particular supporting establishments to prevent corruption within HMPPS.

The core service of this role is to support prisons with their administration of their counter corruption caseload. The role will involve providing the administration support for two establishments on behalf of the regional counter corruption team and work alongside the local counter corruption manager to effectively manage the threat of corruption in prison establishments.

The role will also be responsible for supporting prisons on the effective management of known corruptor prisoners in custody to prevent them from corrupting staff.

The job holder will report directly to the Regional Corruption Pursue Manager, who in turn reports to the Regional Corruption Pursue Lead.

The post holder will not have management responsibilities.

This is a regional post and will be based in two establishments. Daily travel to one of these prisons and frequent travel to the regional offices will be required. Occasional travel outside the region (e.g. to London) may be required.

This role may involve contact with prisoners depending on their area of work.
 
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties    

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

•    Having a contemporaneous understanding of the operational context in prisons priorities, risks and opportunities to better tackle corruption.
•    Having an understanding of the relevant legal and policy frameworks relating to corruption, security and HR, and making sure these are followed when providing services to prisons.
•    Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for the local counter corruption manager.
•    Act as contact point for all communications to the counter corruption team, prioritise and distribute to the local counter corruption manager in the establishment and the regional counter corruption team.
•    Complete any monitoring returns required on behalf of the establishment for the counter corruption unit.
•    Co-ordinate any awareness sessions on behalf of the counter corruption unit.
•    Prepare paperwork for checking by their manager, conducting initial checks as required.
•    Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to ensure that they are aware of information related to Corruption and that it is adequately shared in line with agreed process.
•    Maintain and check establishment databases for managing corruption, filing systems and logs of information with responses within timescales, producing reports as required.
•    Arrange any meetings including the preparation of paperwork, minutes and action points for the effective management of corruption.
•    Being the first point of contact for prisons to signpost policies, procedures and key contacts to support counter corruption work.
•    Coordinating CCU prevent teams attendance/cover supporting establishments deliver their prevent agenda.
•    Identify blockages to progress and take action and escalate to the Regional Corruption Unit as appropriate.
•    Monitoring and reviewing the relative priority of corruption work and caseloads, escalating to the Regional Corruption Prevent Manager.
•    Entering data onto CCU systems, ensuring information is captured accurately and is easy to understand.
•    Understanding the team’s caseload, including working with analysts to report on management information and data on volumes, timeliness and outcomes of cases across the region.
•    On the direction of the Regional Corruption Prevention Lead and Regional Corruption Prevent Manager, the post holder may also be asked to work with prisons to understand capability gaps and signpost wider capability opportunities, best practice and guidance and support light touch research to inform our evidence base on corruption.

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.

Please refer to Job Description

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

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

Alongside your salary of £30,471, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £8,257 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

London 2 Marsham Street (2MS)

The Home Office has one of the most challenging and critical jobs in Whitehall: to keep Britain safe and secure. We operate at the heart of the Government’s agenda, leading on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy, counter-extremism and counterterrorism and work to ensure visible, responsive and accountable policing in the UK. The challenges the Department faces are significant and can change rapidly in the global environment in which we operate, making this one of the most exciting and stimulating Government Departments in which to work.

The Home Office Security Adviser Team (HOSAT) sits at the heart of the Security and Investigations Unit within the Corporate and Delivery directorate. HOSAT is responsible for supporting Home Office business areas to improve their security standards and enable them to deliver their priorities in a secure manner. HOSAT works closely with the Government Security Centres and technical authorities to ensure that advice is always current and relevant. The team chairs and attends various cross government forums, ensuring that the department remains a role model in security best practices.

These positions will sit within the Culture and Behaviour team reporting to the Culture and Behaviour Manager and will be a key part of Home Office project work taking Government security priorities forward. These roles will be key in supporting the Culture and Behaviour team to increase staff understanding and knowledge of security responsibilities, you will help to improve the security culture in the Home Office through supporting consistent and standardised security behaviour change activity. You will work closely with the Culture Team HEO and SEO leads to deliver internal/external communications and campaigns. You will support the Culture and Behaviour Team with the production and delivery of security education and awareness materials, products and services relating to all areas of protective security to the department.

You will support high profile departmental and cross-government security campaigns, ensuring that the impact of key messaging is maximised. You will assist the provision of nuanced advice and bespoke campaigns to business units, targeting their specific security requirements.

You will engage with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders across government and the technical authorities to ensure that information and best practices remain up to date as threats and mitigations continue to evolve at pace. This fast-paced role will require the successful individuals to deliver presentations to large groups of people, and exposure to senior individuals to provide bespoke advice, establishing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across the wider department.

As the successful candidate, you will support the teams campaign delivery plan, emphasising key security behaviours and signposting to reporting mechanisms. You will be responsible for continuing to increase the reach and profile of the Security Adviser Team and ensuring that security policies are sufficiently communicated.

Due to the operational nature of this post, this position is only open to Full Time members of staff with the possibility of compressed hours.

Due to the nature of this role the candidate will be offered a Fixed Term Appointment of up to 12 months to complete a finite piece of work.

Temporary Posts

Permanent employees applying for a post on Detached Duty (internal to Home Office) or Loan (from another government department) should ensure they have the Head of Unit’s support to return to the parent unit/department at the end of the detached duty/loan period.  Note: Existing Civil Servants applying externally for a fixed term appointment (FTA) will normally take up post on a detached duty/loan basis.

Permanent employees who successfully secure a detached duty or loan on promotion (including where a fixed term appointment is offered on promotion), must seek written confirmation from their parent unit/department that the promotion will be recognised and made substantive upon their return to their parent unit/department at the end of the detached duty/loan period.

Detached duty – where the home unit is unable to recognise promotion gained through a detached duty, the line manager (new/home unit as applicable) will place the successful candidate on temporary cover allowance (TCA), which will attract an allowance of 10% of base salary or the difference between base salary and the minimum of the next grade, whichever is higher, until the end of the detached duty.

Loan – where the parent department is unable to recognise promotion gained through a loan and the successful candidate is moving to the Home Office payroll, the Home Office line manager will place the successful candidate on temporary cover allowance (TCA), which will attract an allowance of 10% allowance of base salary or the difference between base salary and the minimum of the next grade.

Hybrid Working

The flexible working arrangement of Hybrid working (working partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home) is not available for this role due to the requirements of the role. Successful candidates will be required to attend the office/other work location as specified in the advert at all times to carry out this role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for creative, dynamic, well organised individual to join an established team and enact impactful change to a prominent and diverse department.

 As a member of the Security Culture and Behaviour team, you will play an important role in continuing to embed a positive security culture across the department.

You will have key contributions to security awareness work (for example with Private Office), including contributions to briefings and presentations across a variety of security topics linked to security policies and general security awareness work.

Note: This is not an exclusive or exhaustive list, and the post holder will be required to perform any additional duties reasonably expected of them within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.

Essential Criteria

We are looking for a motivated individual who can demonstrate the following:

• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal confidently with staff of all grades.
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Creating and maintaining effective internal and external stakeholder relationships at all grades.
• Highly motivated, dynamic, and proactive, able to work in a fast-paced environment, managing time and priorities effectively.
• Ability to gather, analyse and manage information, with the ability to express this to a range of stakeholders and audiences at both operational and strategic levels.
• Must have or be willing to undergo SC clearance.

Desirable Criteria

For this role, the below experience would be beneficial, but is not essential:

• Previous experience of communications/campaigns.
• Previous experience of Government Security.

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

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

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

• Communicating and Influencing

• 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%

Liverpool The Capital – London 2 Marsham Street (2MS) – Manchester Soapworks – Sheffield Vulcan House

The Home Office has one of the most challenging and critical jobs in Whitehall: to keep Britain safe and secure. We operate at the heart of the Government’s agenda, leading on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy, counter-extremism and counterterrorism and work to ensure visible, responsive and accountable policing in the UK. The challenges the Department faces are significant and can change rapidly in the global environment in which we operate, making this one of the most exciting and stimulating Government Departments in which to work.
 
The Home Office Security Adviser Team (HOSAT) sits at the heart of the Security and Investigations Unit within the Corporate and Delivery directorate. HOSAT is responsible for supporting Home Office business areas to improve their security standards and enable them to deliver their priorities in a secure manner. HOSAT works closely with the Government Security Centres and technical authorities to ensure that advice is always current and relevant. The team chairs and attends various cross government forums, ensuring that the department remains a role model in security best practices.

This position will sit within the Culture and Behaviour team reporting to the Culture and Behaviour Manager and will be a key part of Home Office project work taking Government security priorities forward. This role will be key in supporting the Culture and Behaviour team to increase staff understanding and knowledge of security responsibilities, you will help to improve the security culture in the Home Office through supporting consistent and standardised security behaviour change activity. You will work closely with the Culture Team HEO and SEO leads to deliver internal/external communications and campaigns. You will support the Culture and Behaviour Team with the production and delivery of security education and awareness materials, products and services relating to all areas of protective security to the department.

You will support high profile departmental and cross-government security campaigns, ensuring that the impact of key messaging is maximised. You will assist the provision of nuanced advice and bespoke campaigns to business units, targeting their specific security requirements.

You will engage with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders across government and the technical authorities to ensure that information and best practices remain up to date as threats and mitigations continue to evolve at pace. This role will require the successful individual to deliver presentations and exposure to senior individuals to provide bespoke advice, establishing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across the wider department.

As the successful candidate, you will support the teams campaign delivery plan, emphasising key security behaviours and signposting to reporting mechanisms. You will be responsible for continuing to increase the reach and profile of the Security Adviser Team and ensuring that security policies are sufficiently communicated.

Due to the operational nature of this post, this position is only open to full-time members of staff with the possibility of compressed hours.

Hybrid Working

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow. Applicants can discuss what this means with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions.

This is a fantastic opportunity for creative, dynamic, well organised individual to join an established team and enact impactful change to a prominent and diverse department.

As a member of the Security Culture and Behaviour team, you will play an important role in continuing to embed a positive security culture across the department.

You will work closely with a range of internal Home Office business areas as well as cross-gov partners to ensure that information and best practices remain up to date as threats and mitigations continue to evolve at pace.

You will have key contributions to security awareness work (for example with Private Office), including contributions to briefings and presentations across a variety of security topics linked to security policies and general security awareness work.

Note: This is not an exclusive or exhaustive list, and the post holder will be required to perform any additional duties reasonably expected of them within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.

Essential criteria

We are looking for a motivated / dynamic individual who can demonstrate the following:

• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal confidently with staff of all grades.
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Creating and maintaining effective internal and external stakeholder relationships at all grades.
• Highly motivated, dynamic, and proactive, able to work in a fast-paced environment, managing time and priorities effectively.
• Ability to gather, analyse and manage information, with the ability to express this to a range of stakeholders and audiences at both operational and strategic levels.
• Must have or be willing to undergo SC clearance.

Desirable criteria

For this role, the below experience would be beneficial, but is not essential:

• Previous experience of communications/campaigns.
• Previous experience of Government Security.

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

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

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

• Communicating and Influencing

• 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%

National

The U.K. Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the government agency responsible for patents, designs, trademarks and copyright. The Rights Policy and Enforcement Directorate supports holders of all IP rights by engaging with law enforcement agencies to assist in the enforcement of those rights.

The IPO Intelligence and Law Enforcement Team is a key part of this, with nationally trained and accredited staff working to provide intelligence on criminal IP infringement to law enforcement agencies.

The successful candidate will work in partnership with our current Lead Intelligence Analyst and will have responsibility for a team of intelligence analysts. The post holder will oversee;

• Delivery of strategic intelligence assessments in support of the IPO Counter Infringement Strategy
• Delivery of tactical and operational intelligence-led insight focused on serious and organised IP-related crime.

The Lead Intelligence Analyst roles have been created as part of planned wider changes within the directorate. These roles play a key part in shaping the future of the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Team and the wider directorate, contributing to the development of new tools and techniques, identifying new sources of intelligence and information, collaborating with partners across law enforcement to tackle IP related serious and organised crime, developing intelligence staff to meet national standards and building a responsive, outcome-based performance framework for the directorate’s enforcement strategy.

Working location

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport office.

We recognise that this is a hard to fill role which may not require attendance more than once a month, so in exceptional circumstances a homeworking contract may be available. We would encourage candidates to discuss with the recruiting manager through this process. Should you be eligible for homeworking, travel will be paid for if there is a business requirement to attend the office.

Please refer to job description

Additional Information

Candidates should have (or are willing to work towards) College of Policing IPP Accreditation in an intelligence management role.

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

• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

Waterside Court – Leeds, Vulcan House – Sheffield, Maple House – Manchester

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

We are looking for a hardworking and driven individual with excellent attention to detail to join the Home Office Intelligence (HOI) Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Estates Team and support the coordination of recruitment activities for all of HOI.

HOI has 1800 colleagues based across the UK and international locations who are focused on threats related to Organised Crime, National Security and Revenue.

The Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Estates Team sits within the HOI Support Hub whose vision is to:

• Provide the ‘underpinnings’ of HOI corporate functions, including finance, working planning, risk, communications, staff development, performance management, people and tasking and co-ordination.
• Enable operational HOI teams to focus resource on intelligence activities that support protecting the UK from harm.
• Define HOI’s strategy and capability to inform our business planning cycle, tasking and coordination and prioritisation of departmental objectives; enabling resource to be re-directed to meet demands, priorities, and key performance indicators.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced role, helping to deliver high quality outputs for HOI and contributing to the departments Workforce Planning and Recruitment strategy.

We strive to utilise workforce planning, estates, and attrition data to effectively forecast, plan, and manage recruitment campaigns within HOI to achieve full staff complement. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape and design new processes to help craft the work of the team.

In this role you will be part of the set up to manage HO Intelligence’s UK recruitment and the delivery of bulk recruitment campaigns.  
 
Key role responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Drafting and updating recruitment material including communications about key workforce messages.
• Managing the recruitment inbox and promptly handling queries from candidates.
• Management of the recruitment approvals process ensuring approvals are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Supporting recruitment activity including arranging and coordinating interviews, supporting those involved in campaigns, and sifting and interviewing where required and appropriate.
• Securely storing candidate ID documents and promptly following up where ID is missing.
• Maintaining a spreadsheet of results, identifying and plugging any gaps.
• Securely storing interview feedback and providing feedback to candidates when requested.
• Maintaining a list of interview trained staff and independent candidates across HO Intel.
• Organising HO Intel’s attendance at recruitment fairs.
• Providing secretariat support for the recruitment team, including booking meetings and taking minutes.
• Commissioning timely monthly recruitment update requests to G7 teams within HO Intelligence.
• Managing and co-ordinating Intel Support Hub’s Sharepoint page and uploading key messages to the business.

Please Note: The successful candidate may be required to undertake other responsibilities that are appropriate for the role and grade.

The successful candidate should be:

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, which is currently used to store and analyse staffing and recruitment data. There will be a lot of work with spreadsheets, so you must be confident and comfortable in working on these daily to manipulate data.
• Ability to work autonomously, be intuitive, and have a problem-solving approach to help shape and continuously improve our processes.
• Confident in communicating with staff of all grades, providing a friendly service to our stakeholders and being able to provide accurate information and signposting on a variety of queries.
• Have excellent attention to detail, so we can provide accurate data to inform strategic workforce decisions.

Essential criteria

• Ability to work at pace and deliver to tight timescales.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Good knowledge of Excel.

Desirable criteria

• A creative problem solver who comes up with new insights to help improve business performance.
• Experience of working within HO Intelligence or legacy Border Force Intelligence / legacy Immigration Intelligence.
• Good drafting skills.
  

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

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

• Managing a Quality Service

• 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%

Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JQ

We have an exciting opportunity to lead on the management of information risk and assurance across Dstl. The CISO area is responsible for assuring the Dstl Board and MOD CISO that Dstl is managing information appropriately with an appropriate balance being struck between information risk and business operational need or opportunity.

Operating within wider MOD policy the team use risk management principles to facilitate the rapidly evolving needs of a business looking to capitalise on innovative and evolving technologies to resolve customer problems in an appropriately secure manner.

This role will support Dstl’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in ensuring that Cyber Security controls remain appropriate and proportionate to the assessed risks, are responsive and adaptable to the changing threat environment, business requirements and Defence and central government policies.

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:

Provide support to Dstl’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) managing day to day activities and deputising for CISO as required. The CISO is responsible for information assurance and cyber defence across Dstl and provides assurance at Dstl Executive and Dstl Board level across these areas.

DCISO will help set Dstl’s information risk appetite, develop IA policy and set Dstl’s cyber defence posture. This role also supports Dstl’s cyber incident response / recovery and is involved with ensuring training and SQEP support is available across the business with the adoption of an enterprise security approach.

DCISO will be able to evaluate information risk against business need and perceived threat within the context of the wider strategic position of Dstl and MOD operation. An ability to quickly understand new concepts, identify salient points and form sound pragmatic judgements even when information is limited is essential.

The DCISO will champion learning, development and cultivate talent whilst fostering an inclusive, diverse and motivated workforce. DCISO will support CISO in providing assurance that individuals undertaking cyber security roles are suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP).

We are looking for someone who has:

• A good understanding of cyber security and information assurance principles and practice as well as an awareness of the wider security domain.
• Experience of one or more cyber security frameworks, standards or approaches. 
  Practical experience in managing IT systems, the threats to them, system monitoring and methods of protection.
• Experience of industrial control systems and their secure implementation.

Essential skills:
Experience in a cyber or information security role which builds upon a sound understanding of information systems, their implementation, management and use.

• A good communicator and able to articulate arguments in a clear and concise manner, both orally and in writing across all levels of an organisation.
• Ability to analyse problems and derive solutions that are both pragmatic and deliverable often without complete information.
• Clear understanding of how the various components of a good information security posture integrate, how gaps in it may be exploited and how to mitigate security gaps.
• An understanding of how information security and assurance support an enterprise security model.
• Clear written and oral communication and the ability to build constructive, productive relationships at all levels.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrable evidence of experience working in an information or cyber security / assurance role.
• Practical experience in managing risk.

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:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

Alongside your salary of £55,014, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes £14,853 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

The UK Intelligence Assessment Academy, part of the Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment in the JIO, is at the heart of developing the skills and abilities of intelligence analysts across government and law-enforcement. We are seeking candidates with experience in intelligence analysis/assessment who can engage students and enthuse them about their roles and responsibilities in the intelligence community.

About the JIO: 

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and the National Security Council, the Prime Minister and other key decision-makers by providing authoritative, robust all-source intelligence assessment on a vast range of national security and foreign policy priorities.

Our work covers, and goes beyond, ‘traditional’ national security topics such as geopolitical issues and threats to British interests. We apply a national security lens to issues such as emerging technology, economic and health security, climate change and horizon scanning (for example, identifying and monitoring countries at risk of instability).

The JIO is a great place to work, with team ethos and mutual support being at the core of how we work and deliver.

You can read more about working for the JIO in the information pack attached at the bottom of this advert.

The Role:

The Academy offers a suite of courses to intelligence analysts. The successful candidates will join the small team designing, developing and delivering education and training across the assessment community.  Working with the Head of Academy and Senior Instructors, you will share your passion for analytical work, develop your subject matter expertise in intelligence analysis and assessment and build your teaching and coaching skills.

This is an opportunity for the successful candidate to have a far reaching impact on the intelligence analysis and assessment community, shaping the skills of new analysts and contributing to the growth of the profession.

The post offers opportunities for hybrid working; alternative working patterns and job shares are also possible, subject to the ability to meet the Academy’s commitments.

Your work will principally cover the New Analyst Programme, one of two flagship Academy programmes. You will have the opportunity to develop bespoke training for customers across government, in line with your experience and interests.

Whilst the role can be undertaken with SC clearance, for business continuity purposes, the successful candidate would be expected to undergo DV clearance once in post.

Responsibilities:

If your application is successful, you will:

• Work with Academy Senior Instructors to deliver and support the development of the New Analyst Programme for new entrants to the intelligence analysis profession across government.
• Have the opportunity to support the development and delivery of other Academy programmes as they evolve.
• Lead on the delivery of a continuous professional development webinar series.
• Maintain relationships with existing analytical training teams across government.
• Partner with Five Eyes and other Allies to ensure best practice in analytical learning is embedded in the UK and represent the UK assessment community internationally.
• Engage with the private sector and academia to ensure learning for UK analysts is the model of best practice.
• Act as a role model to the UK intelligence and assessment communities in learning, building trust and collaborative relationships that get the best from everyone.
• Contribute to your team’s wider work and to other JIO work, both to support colleagues and for your own development.
• You may have the opportunity to work with the PHIA Analytical Trade craft Team to provide analytical trade craft support to the JIO, wider intelligence assessment community and, where appropriate, partners across government.

The ideal candidate should:

• Have previous experience of working in, or substantial knowledge of, intelligence analysis/assessment.
• Be organised, able to work across several different work strands at any given time.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player, able to develop and manage close working relationships with colleagues across organisational boundaries.
• Have strong written and oral communication skills. This includes the ability to explain complex issues in a clear and concise manner to a range of audiences.

Applications from candidates with the following would be desirable:

• Experience designing, delivering and leading analytical learning.
• Experience designing and delivering virtual learning.

We invest in up skilling our team members to enable them to thrive once they start working with us. As such, if you don’t quite match these desirable skills, don’t let it put you off applying as we will equip the successful candidate with them once you are in post.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others

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

• Analysis, Tradecraft and Assessment (Proficient)

Alongside your salary of £44,500, Cabinet Office contributes £12,015 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Annual salary increases will depend upon individual performance and contribution to the organisation’s success. In addition, there will be the opportunity to earn performance related bonuses.

Existing civil servants can take up the post on loan from their parent department for the duration advertised (permission from their parent department would need to be secured in order to take up the post). Those joining on level transfer will retain their current salary. Staff joining on promotion terms will receive up to a 10% increase of their current basic salary or the pay band minimum whichever is the greater. Staff joining on promotion will adopt the modernised terms and conditions of employment which came into force in 2013.

Pension: There is a choice of excellent pension schemes. More information about pension provisions can be found at www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions

Flexible Working: Flexible working including job-share arrangements may be considered for this role.

Leave allowances: 25 days’ paid leave per annum rising to 30 days after five years’ service. In addition, full-time staff receive eight public holidays and the King’s Birthday privilege day as well as competitive maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave.

Probation: Staff new to the Civil Service will be required to serve a six month probationary period.

Location: The post will be based in Central London. No relocation costs will be available.

Equality and Diversity: The Cabinet Office is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all staff. We will not discriminate on grounds of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, those with caring responsibilities, part time workers or any other factor irrelevant to a person’s work. We encourage a diverse workforce and aim to provide a working environment where all staff at all levels are valued and respected, and where discrimination, bullying, promotion of negative stereotyping and harassment are not tolerated.

Civil Service Code: All civil servants are subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Code which details Civil Service values, standards of behaviour, rights and responsibilities. Go to http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk for more information.

City of Westminster, London (region), SW1A 2HB

The post holder will be required to engage with MOD specialists and other agencies to develop sound and practical Information and Cyber Security advice to Head Office business units. They will be required to produce and implement a coherent Cyber and Information Security strategy for Head Office aligned to the Cyber Resilience Programme and wider Departmental priorities including the identification of all CIS in use across the Head Office. The post holder will be required to prepare and respond to activities regarding the Cyber Compliance Audit. Working alongside Information Management colleagues, the post holder will seek to improve the information assurance practices of the Head Office – including security culture, training and awareness. The post holder will oversee the Information risk management process and deal with risk balance cases on behalf of the Senior Information Risk Owner.

The post holder will be expected to undertake and oversee the accreditation of CIS operated by Head Office. When necessary, they will commission Cyber vulnerability assessments and confirm appropriate action has been taken when responding to a cyber security incident, liaising with the Warning and Advice reporting point (WARP) on all CIS/Info matters. They will be expected to provide SME advice to the Head Office CIS Governance Group on new infrastructure / change projects involving IT. They will be expected to build up a network of Information and Cyber Security contacts. Some of the work is complex and may be technical. It will rely on the post holder knowing when to consult with SMEs and when not. The role requires a large amount of autonomy but keeping others informed on progress is essential. You will have line management responsibility for a Band D (Executive Officer). There may be other cyber security work that needs to be undertaken including supporting campaigns and raising awareness. Occasionally the post holder may be involved, as part of the SSBR team, in helping to manage business resilience incidents occurring in Main Building and supporting the Head of Establishment in their broader responsibilities with running the building.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

• Mentoring, development and line management of a Cyber Security Apprentice with particular emphasis on their Continuous Professional Development.
• Leading the promotion of cyber security standards and best practice across Head Office, guiding and influencing project and policy decision making as appropriate and seeking novel solutions to challenging security issues.
• Ensuring that the assessment process meets the requirements of Government & MOD Policy and Standards, (e.g. HMG Government Functional Standard (GovS) 007 – Security and MOD Cyber Security policy).
• Oversee Cyber and Information Security risk balance cases and risk management processes escalating risks to the Principal Security Advisor and Senior Security Risk Coordinator.
• Oversee / manage the accreditation of IT systems in line with Head Office delegations. Promote Secure by Design when planning, developing new systems.
• Act as Cyber Security Consultant for Head Office business units and system owners.
• Review risk management and security design evidence to confirm that risk assessments and risk treatment plans are consistent with business requirements.
• Respond to, manage and coordinate responses to Cyber security incidents.
• Promulgation of cyber security vulnerability alerts and patch updates. Dissemination of MODCERT alerts when issued.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships with Head Office Project Teams to help build risk management and Secure by Design into business and project plans.
• Provide advice and guidance to Project Security Leads, through Independent Assessment of risk management and security evidence, and attendance at relevant Security meetings.
• Guide projects in the accurate recording of all Targets of Assurance (TOAs) on the Defence Accreditation & Risk Tool (DART).
• Maintain an accurate risk register of all security risks, utilising STREAM where necessary.
• Contribute to the development of the organisation’s processes and IA Policy that affect ability to deliver within risk appetite. Incorporating lessons learnt from incident management and/or project development.
• Provide technical support, advice, on Cyber Security matters across HOCS.

The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, committed and driven with an evidenced passion and expertise in cyber/information security. They will have a sound understanding of risk management principles and be able to clearly and concisely articulate risks and vulnerabilities to system owners, seniors, stakeholders and Cyber security experts in Defence, Cabinet Office & NCSC.

They should possess keen analytical skills and be able to analyse a range of complex data sets and quickly focus on and extract the salient/pertinent detail.

Essential Criteria:

1. The candidate must hold a UK recognised qualification in Cyber or Information Security or have successfully completed a UK recognised training course in Cyber/Information Security.

                                                               AND/OR

2. Experience of working in a Cyber/Information security environment (ideally 2 or more years)

Note. Candidates progressed to the Interview stage will be asked to supply evidence of their qualifications or training.

Desirable:  

• Practical experience of the application of principles contained in NIST and/or ISO 27001
• Practical experience or use of STREAM
• Experience, knowledge or application of Secure by Design principles
• Evidence at Practitioner (Level 3) of Institute of Information Security Professionals skills framework:

         A1 – Governance

         A2 – and Standards

         A3 – Information Security Strategy

         B1 – Risk Assessment

         B2 – Information Risk Management

         E1 – Secure Operations Management

         E2 – Secure Operations & Service Delivery

Any UK recognised qualification in the field of Cyber Security at any level, fundamentals, intermediate or advanced

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

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 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, including support for Continuous Professional Development and access to internal and external training courses, which include access to those leading to nationally recognised qualifications
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Generous Annual Leave allowance
• On site gym
• On site creche

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Posts based in London will attract the relevant London weighting.

Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

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.

Any move to MOD 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/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

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MOD Main Building, London

The Defence Nuclear Organisation (DNO) delivers nuclear capability to deter threats and protect our nation. We do this as part of the Nuclear Enterprise working in close partnership with the Royal Navy, the Submarine Delivery Agency and AWE. The Strategic Systems Performance Analysis and Assessment Group (SSPAG) leads on providing independent assurance to ministers, senior defence officials and the Royal Navy on a wide array of Strategic Nuclear Deterrent operations and capabilities.

The Head of SSPAG is an exciting new post tasked with coordinating this crucial input, assuring the credibility and effectiveness of the nuclear deterrent to support our fundamental purpose to preserve peace, prevent coercion, and deter aggression.

Are you a strategic problem solver who can lead and deliver in this complex, but exciting environment? We would love to hear from you.

The current responsibilities of the role include:

• Provide subject matter expertise in a number of different areas of nuclear security issues (including operation, protection and defence of the nuclear weapons system), supporting the planning of strategic and operational effects and supporting strategic intelligence efforts in support of protecting and defending the nuclear deterrent enterprise and operation.
• Ensure significant risks to the achievement of safe, secure and effective operations are understood and reported directly to the Joint Commander.
• Deliver sound judgement and provide insight to the most senior decision makers in MOD and His Majesty’s Government on the performance of the operation, utilising insightful analysis, judgements and deductions derived from highly complex and nuanced information and evidence.
• Maintain the relationship with US counterparts (US Navy: Security and Technology Programme) on relevant matters relating to the assurance of safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent operations.
• Provide advice and support to the Operational Commander on risks / issues and mitigations related to the continued delivery of credible and effective operations as well as leading the authoritative assessment on operational performance. Delivering technical direction and guidance within the group across all areas of accountability as well as portraying a credible leader to external stakeholders.
• Advising on appropriate courses of action to treat strategic risks which covers all aspects of operations and the supporting enterprise, using a wide range of approaches to advise on policy, strategy, tactics, operations, capabilities and supporting efforts from partners across Government.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their experience and skills against the following essential criteria:

• Extensive experience of working across the Policy, Strategy and/or Operational Delivery profession with evidence of providing creative and innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Proven experience of using analysis and assessment to deliver high magnitude positive impact.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrable experience of managing key senior relationships, especially at Board/Executive level, and an ability to engage, influence and challenge a range of internal and external stakeholders across a complex environment.
• A proven leader who can motivate, empower and get consistently good results from a diverse multi-disciplinary team, often under pressure. Demonstratable experience of being able to set a clear vision and/or direction that drives forward the organisation’s work and its future within an inclusive environment.
• Demonstrable evidence of thinking strategically, delivering sound judgement, clarity of thought, and providing insight to senior colleagues.
• Proven experience in shaping technical and analytical strategies for projects. Proven ability to communicate highly technical content to non-technical audiences, both verbally and in writing.

• 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%