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This is an exciting opportunity to help drive forward the Joint Intelligence Organisation’s (JIO) use of graphic design, data visualisation and other forms of visual storytelling as a core part of our intelligence assessment. We are looking for a dedicated individual with an aptitude for creativity to join the JIO’s Insights Hub as a Senior Information Designer. This is a unique opportunity to continue developing a unique capability within the UK intelligence assessment community. Candidates should have a passion for finding new and innovative ways to visualise unique stories within intelligence assessment.

The JIO Insights Hub fosters a culture of innovation and inclusion, believing our success comes through diversity of thought, experience and background. You will be empowered to manage the day-to-day projects, develop relationships across the organisation and try new ideas which will drive forward the JIO’s bar-setting vision for high-value, innovative intelligence assessment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the centre of UK national security. You’ll be creating visual products which ultimately help to inform the UK’s response to priority national and international issues on a daily basis.

About the JIO

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and the Foreign Policy and 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).

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

The Role

As a Senior Information Designer, you will be managing the day-to-day production of best-in-class visual assessments. You will also be working with the Principal Designer, the Graphics Desk and wider Insights Hub Specialists to find new and innovative ways to visualise intelligence assessment for the Prime Minister and other senior officials. You will be responsible for imagining, creating and maintaining these visual experiences to help our customers understand the latest assessments. Focusing on one or more specialities – such as graphic design, digital illustration and/or data visualisation  – you will produce high-impact infographics and other visuals on a daily basis, collaborating with subject matter experts on the most important national security issues of the day.

This post is only open to British Citizens. Some dual nationals may be ineligible. The successful candidate must obtain Developed Vetting (DV) clearance if not already held. As they will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process.  Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment.  Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.

Responsibilities

If your application is successful, you will:

• Collaborate with fellow Insights Hub Specialists and wider JIO Intelligence Analysts to produce best-in-class visual products that will be seen by the Prime Minister and other senior officials on a daily basis. 
• Work with the Team Principal to develop design concepts
• Manage the day-to-day visual production of the team. Coordinating the delivery of multiple visual products at pace. 
• Review and confidently provide feedback on analyst produced visuals. Ensuring consistency with the house style and maintaining a rigorous quality control process.
• Scope out complex requirements and confidently communicate ideas to analysts and non-familiar audiences.
• Contribute to your team’s wider work or to other JIO work, both to support colleagues and for your own development. You may occasionally be asked to support crisis working or work unsociable hours.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have proven experience in creative and deadline driven environments.
• Have experience with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and/or Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS, QGIS).  
• Be passionate about creating compelling visual experiences with a strong aesthetic. Having knowledge of editorial layout, graphic fundamentals and typography.
• Tell stories in innovative ways with an enthusiasm to constantly push the creative and technological boundaries of JIO assessment.
• Use analytical skills to identify storytelling opportunities. Able to confidently and independently search and analyse datasets, with a desire to eventually upskill in data analysis or advanced data visualisation (R, Python).
• Relevant experience in graphic design or geospatial intelligence roles.
• Have a Level 5 or above qualification in graphic design, cartographic or other related subjects. Level 5 qualifications accepted are Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE), Foundation Degree, Higher National Diploma (HND), Level 5 Award, Level 5 Certificate, Level 5 Diploma or Level 5 NVQ.

We invest in upskilling 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. The application process will seek to gauge potential just as much as current performance.

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

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

• Tools and software. (Skill level: expert) (aligned with DDaT Capability Framework Graphic Designer Role – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/graphic-designer)
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical. (Skill level: practitioner) (aligned with DDaT Capability Framework Graphic Designer Role – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/graphic-designer)

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 Queen’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 Westminster, London. No relocation costs will be available.

Crisis working: As the JIO and PHIA are at the heart of national security function for the UK, there are occasionally times where we need to respond to incidents of crisis or critical importance. Staff in any role may be asked to work extended or anti-social hours with little or no notice on such occasions.

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.

MOD Main Building Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB

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 unarmed guarding 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. 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.

Main Responsibilities

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.

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

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

MOD Main Building Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB

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

Main Responsibilities

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
• 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.

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
• The possibility to gain a financial in-year reward after successful completion of six months probation and a further in-year reward after your 12 month anniversary and throughout your career with the MGS.

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

Working Pattern

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can view our YouTube video to see more about our work 

About MGS

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide unarmed guarding 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. 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.

Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

About the Security Function:  

The Security function’s role is to protect DBT’s people, assets and information from any people or groups who wish to damage the department or stop the department from achieving its objectives. We do this by building a diverse team with expert, generalist, and entry level roles to work together to solve the challenges we face. This mix allows us to develop talent internally and to benefit from a wide range of life experiences.

The Role:  

This role sits within the core security team and will work with colleagues across our security functions to develop, implement and maintain a new security incident management capability within the department. You will also be expected to work closely with other corporate functions in DBT (notably Data Protection, HR, Fraud and Cyber colleagues) to ensure that any incidents affecting them are assessed, shared, and dealt with effectively and efficiently.

The initial workload will largely involve building on and developing existing security incident management policies and procedures, whilst enhancing our incident reporting, lesson learning, and continuous improvement functions, and aligning the department to the Government Functional Standard for Security (GovS 007) and Minimum Security Standards: Incident Management. Thereafter, the role will act as the coordinating authority for security incidents in DBT, receiving, assessing, triaging and responding to incidents as required, soliciting other security or corporate functions to support as necessary.  

There is a secondary investigatory responsibility associated with this role. You will support the department’s Leaks and Investigations Adviser, and cover the function in their absence, to participate in Cabinet Office led, or cross-government investigations, more complex investigations within DBT, and to individually take on breach investigations according to demand, capacity and capability.

• Develop and implement a new streamlined reporting process for security related incidents across DBT.
• Coordinate and maintain our incident management processes, receiving, triaging and responding to incident reports and managing activity in line with HMG and departmental policy and statutory and legislative requirements.
• Embed a lesson-learning and continuous improvement function in our approach to incident management, ensuring the whole security team benefits from knowledge gained or issues identified whilst managing incidents.
• Support security investigations and associated activities, liaising with stakeholders across corporate functions and externally, where required.
• Participate in an out of hours on-call duty roster (approximately one week in eight), attracting an on-call allowance.

Essential Criteria:

• Stakeholder management experience.
• The ability to prioritise between multiple work streams to ensure that deadlines are met.
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work well individually and with others at all levels in an organisation.
• Able to attend the workplace at short notice, where necessary to support security incidents and/or deal with matters in person.

Desirable Criteria:

• Project management skills/previous work on projects.
• An understanding of Government Security policies and guidance.
• The ability to quickly develop a basic understanding of a subject area and continue to develop this understanding over time.
• Prior knowledge and experience of investigations (e.g. security, fraud, HR, criminal) would be an advantage.

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

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

Alongside your salary of £38,052, Department for Business and Trade contributes £10,273 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
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.

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

Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

Are you an experienced competition specialist, or have experience of litigation, enforcement or regulatory work, looking to make a positive impact on the UK economy and society?

As a Principal Case Officer, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference, helping to protect consumers, working on a variety of competition law investigations.

About the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.

About you 

A proven track record of working in a delivery role in competition enforcement or in a similar enforcement or regulatory field is essential. Alternatively, you may have relevant experience as a competition lawyer or economist, or as a lawyer, litigator, investigator, consultant or adviser, with experience of complex enforcement or regulatory cases.

You will need experience of undertaking complex analytical work, including experience of gathering, analysing and managing evidence and complex information from a variety of sources and presenting information to an audience.

Experience of leading and managing successful projects is equally important. You will also need excellent verbal and written communication skills including an ability to draft a range of documents, including technical reports.

What we can offer you

The CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, and our extensive flexible working options.

To find out more about this opportunity please click on the APPLY button.

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Or our LinkedIn page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/competition-and-markets-authority/

Closing date: 11:55pm on Monday 25 September 2023

Working in our Antitrust and Cartels enforcement teams, you will play a central role in a multi-disciplinary case team, investigating one or more suspected competition law infringements. You will contribute to many aspects of investigations, from initiation all the way through to decision making and beyond, supporting our Litigation team in any appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

You will advise on the direction and strategy of an investigation and devise robust project plans to support this. You will be responsible for gathering and analysing factual, legal and economic evidence as well as contributing to key investigatory steps. This will include the drafting of documents and correspondence and contributing to internal and external meetings.

When driving forward project plans, you will be pro-actively managing risks and procedural aspects of the investigation, including protecting rights of defence.

In addition to progressing a major investigation, you may also help to develop intelligence leads, apply for a search warrant for an inspection, bring proceedings to disqualify a director, or devise a media campaign to amplify the deterrence message of a successful enforcement outcome.

You may also get involved in the development of cartel and antitrust policy at a national and international level and have opportunities to represent the CMA externally.

We are also currently advertising for roles in the Competition Enforcement Teams at Assistant Director level. To be considered for both, you will need to submit a full application for each vacancy however may be offered a single interview at the higher grade if your application is deemed suitable for consideration for both.

The CMA will be hosting a virtual event on Monday 18th September 2023 between 17:00 – 18:15 via Microsoft Teams. Candidates will have the opportunity to find out more about the organisation and the opportunities available. To register for the event please click here.

It is essential that you can provide evidence and examples for each of the following selection criteria in your application.

• A proven track record working in a delivery role in competition enforcement or in a similar enforcement or regulatory field; or as a competition lawyer or economist; or as a lawyer, litigator, investigator, consultant or adviser with experience of complex enforcement or regulatory cases. (Lead criteria)
• A proven track record undertaking complex analytical work including experience of gathering, analysing and managing evidence and complex information from a variety of sources and presenting information to an audience. (Lead criteria)
• Experience of leading and managing successful projects (or workstreams within projects), to specification, whilst working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including an ability to draft a range of documents including technical reports and documents for publication, for a wide variety of audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with an ability to lead, influence and motivate people and build rapport with senior colleagues and key internal and external stakeholders.

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others

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

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including an ability to draft a range of documents including technical reports and documents for publication, for a wide variety of audiences.

Alongside your salary of £55,133, Competition & Markets Authority contributes £14,885 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

As well as the interesting and varied work you’ll do to contribute to effective competition in the UK, and to ensure consumers get a good deal when buying goods and services, you’ll also benefit from:

• An exceptionally generous pension scheme with a significant employer contribution and range of options, including a tax-free lump sum at the point of retirement and injury, ill-health and life assurance benefits
• 25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King’s birthday. In addition, you’ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering
• Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests
• Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard
• A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional learning opportunities at work

Any move to the CMA 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/.

Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives. We work at least 40% of our time from our office locations across the UK.

If you’re already a civil servant being appointed on level transfer, you’ll retain your existing terms, including annual leave. If you are being promoted you’ll receive either a 10% pay increase or the new grade minimum, whichever is the greater. Applicants new to the civil service can be considered for appointment at a salary higher than the starting point indicated above, but not more than the advertised mid-point, depending on skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications.

We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We want a diverse workforce that reflects the consumers we serve. We welcome applications from under-represented groups, including ethnically diverse people, people with a disability, and people with diverse gender identities and from people of different ages.  

We are an accredited Disability Confident Employer and disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

Our Values

The CMA delivers impactful outcomes for people, business and the UK economy.​ We are Ambitious and Evidence-based, and always strive for Excellence.​ We treat everyone with Respect, and are Collaborative and Inclusive.​

Everything we do is underpinned by the Civil Service values: Honesty, Integrity, Impartiality and Objectivity.

This post is based in Darlington (Feethams House).

About HM Treasury

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us stronger and better at developing policy that reflects the needs of every community. We embrace different views and experiences and value the new perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you!

About the Group

The Corporate Centre Group delivers a wide range of corporate services to enable people at HM Treasury and many of the other organisations who form part of the Treasury Group (including the Government Internal Audit Agency and the Debt Management Office) to operate effectively and efficiently. We are a diverse group, both in terms of our professions and in our ways of working. Our colleagues are based across 3 sites in London, Darlington and Norwich.

The Corporate Centre Group consists of a range of teams and is led by two directors (one of Finance and one of Operations);

• Correspondence and Information Rights
• Finance & Commercial
• People & Capability
• Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
• Treasury Business Solutions
• Multisite Darlington Economic Campus team
• Exchequer Funds & Accounts team

About the Team

The Treasury Business Solutions (TBS) Team is responsible for HM Treasury’s technology, security and knowledge and information management services. Working with our partners, TBS leads and runs technology enabled change. The team takes forward programmes and projects that improve services, enabling our staff to deliver extraordinary services to government.

The TBS Security team are responsible for:

1. Providing written and verbal advice on departmental security issues, sometimes at short notice including briefings to Ministers, the Board and staff at all levels.
2. Ensuring HM Treasury staff, including senior leaders, have sufficient and appropriate understanding of security and risk.
3. Managing HM Treasury physical and cyber security and information risks.
4. Leading the delivery, often through suppliers or other parts of government, of services and improvements to HM Treasury’s cyber security.
5. Meeting security monitoring and assurance requirements such as the Department Security Health Check and GovAssure, and utilising intelligence and information from those processes to identify areas for improvement and achievement of government security standards.
6. Supporting the processing of security clearances, advice and guidance on personnel security. Working with HR on developing policies and managing sensitive areas of casework.
7. Running the security function at HM Treasury’s multi-site campus in Darlington, providing sound advice and judgement to Ministers and senior officials.
8. Leading the Department’s Business Continuity and Incident management activities.
9. Project Management of security projects, supporting partners by providing advice on all aspects of security.

About the job

This role acts as Deputy to the Senior Security Adviser across all security domains and will be based at the Darlington Economic Campus. It is an exciting and meaningful opportunity to work on security at the heart of government in a time of momentous change. If you’re interested in the challenge, we’d be delighted to hear from you!

HM Treasury are seeking a candidate that has a consistent track record of managing security risk. The ability to empower, lead and drive a team providing critical services to the organisation will be key. Working as part of HM Treasury’s Departmental Security Unit will allow you to not only gain exposure and insight into an exciting central government department, but also a career in government security, working to secure the UK against the most sophisticated threats.

As a member of HMG’s security profession, you will continually refresh and develop your professional skills, maintaining a current understanding of the latest thinking in security and its impact on existing security practices. The successful applicant will have a role in participating in workshops and forums across government, providing practical insight to aid and influence the improvement of security practices across-government.

Working closely with the Government Security Group in Cabinet Office and the UK Intelligence Community, including the National Cyber Security Centre and the National Protective Security Authority, to understand the key security threats to HMT and use this information to assess the risks to departmental business.

Key Accountabilities

The postholder will support the team with articulating the security needs of the department, coordinating and reporting on the delivery of services to agreed standards, including being the responsible owner for local security policies. You will ensure that departmental security requirements are being met, directly leading around half the team (the areas to be confirmed based on the experience of the successful candidate) while deputising across all areas of responsibility of the team.

1. Managing a team, setting direction on the team’s work, keeping track of overall team progress and building team capability through learning and development.
2. Provide security advice to all levels of the organisation from Ministers to staff to establish and maintain a positive security culture.
3. Represent HM Treasury at various fora, briefings or committees across government and/or other authorities with experience of building effective working relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders such as NCSC, Government Security Group and the National Protective Security Authority.
4. Lead the development and maintenance of organisational policies, products and methodologies to drive continuous improvement.
5. Delivering value in a complex, high volume live services environment, influencing senior stakeholders to ensure that risk is appropriately managed, including communicating at executive and board level.
6. Acting as a security professional, championing and sharing good practices through the community. Embedding government security culture within the department, across technology, operations and suppliers.
7. Being a subject matter authority on the security elements of diverse and wide-ranging projects.
8. Being a proactive customer for the security services delivered to HM Treasury (both from inside and outside government), holding suppliers to account and ensuring value for money.
9. Being a leader and role model for the entire security community, modelling Civil Service values to cultivate and develop the profession across government.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact Darren Hall at [email protected] or Emily Pilkington at [email protected]

We are looking for the below skills, experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form.

1. Evidence of experience working within at least one specialist area of security; physical security, personnel security (including vetting), risk management, IT security, cyber security. (Experience)
2. Experience of engaging, advising and influencing at all levels of an organisation whilst projecting credibility and self-assurance. (Communicating and Influencing)
3. Ability to form excellent relationships with internal and external partners with ability to draw on experts/the expertise of others when required. (Working Together)

The lead criterion is: Evidence of experience working within at least one specialist area of security; physical security, personnel security (including vetting), risk management, IT security, cyber security. (Experience)

If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.

Candidate Guidance Support Session 
 
We will be running an overview of Success Profiles and the STAR approach; top tips for the application and interview process and an opportunity to ask general questions around our recruitment practices. If you would like to join us, then use the appropriate link below to join the call at the right time. 

Thursday 14th September at 12:00: Click here to join the meeting

Tuesday 26th September at 17:30: Click here to join the meeting

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

• 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) and arrangements
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)
• Access to a range of allowances if eligibility applies. These include profession related allowances.

Flexible Working Arrangements

HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing.

HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites – Darlington, London, and Norwich, with the expectation of achieving 50% attendance in the office as a minimum requirement, along with the flexibility of working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.

Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved with cutting edge Cyber Defence & Fraud Combat at a huge scale.

You will work with Cyber Resilience Centre and DWP Digital colleagues to Develop, Secure and Operate our extensive fleet of security tooling systems.

This includes engineering on Cloud Native Data Science platforms, configuring enterprise-wide data platforms and bespoke departmental system integrations that span the largest and most heterogeneous UK Government IT estate.

How about designing, architecting, developing and administering highly scalable, cloud-native and on premise applications? Often taking the lead yourself and helping others? Or troubleshooting major incidents to resolve problems across multiple technology domains and complex infrastructures?

You will be empowered to take the lead on major pieces of work making sure that the whole team are fully involved and supportive of your innovations and continuous improvement.

You will develop, secure and operate the full software system stack.

This might be writing new code, configuring new applications, entrepreneurship, horizon scanning, embedding new technology, deep systems integrations, CI/CD, data & infrastructure engineering (as code). All carried out whilst championing best practice, automation and the sharing of knowledge and experience with the team. Tasks also include regular review of development products with stakeholders and service management to ensure our systems are fully operational and adhere to all appropriate security and enterprise standards and protocols.

Essential Criteria

• We are looking for a successful, highly motivated and adaptable team player with a deep technical background.
• Ability to design, develop and implement secure and supportable full stack solutions to customer specification.
• Willingness and curiosity to learn, use new technologies and programming languages.
• Develop a close relationship with our internal customers and provide operational support.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems across multiple technology domains.
• Broad understanding of enterprise level IT, cybersecurity topics and fundamental internet architectures and protocols.
• Expert knowledge of data platforms and expert level experience of integration with security products and countermeasures.
• Experience in administration of cloud stacks, operating systems, virtualisation technologies and server hardware.
• Expert level experience and successful track record of design, build and operations of cyber security services and significant experience in design, construction and customization of security software in large enterprise organisations.
• Successfully presenting to non-technical audiences.

We understand that there is a lot on this list of essential skills, if you have just some of these skills we would absolutely love to hear from you.

Desirable Criteria

•    Experience of improving cyber security capability in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment at a large scale.
•    Demonstrated experience of designing, implementing, and supporting large scale services that are aligned to business strategy and user requirements.
•    Expert AWS & Cloud Native DevSecOps knowledge and experience.
•    Highly skilled at writing Infrastructure and configuration as code / Terraform, Cloud Formation.
•    Very experienced with big data platform administration.
•    Data Science ML knowledge and experience.
•    Highly proficient with multiple programming languages & being curious to pickup new ones.
•    For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

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

• Working Together
• Leadership

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

• Secure Development
• Technical Leadership

• 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%.
• Hybrid working – this job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
• A Digital Allowance of up to £15,000 per annum may be offered, for exceptional candidates. This is based on our assessment of your capability, skills and experience.

The post will be based at in the DMO’s office in the City of London

The role is central to how the DMO delivers its cyber security strategy, which is aligned with the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy, and the Cyber Assessment Framework. It is focused on cyber-attack monitoring, incident response, cyber defence, threat intelligence, and the support of cyber security assurance programmes (e.g. GovAssure).

Strong technical skills in cyber security operations, incident response, and threat intelligence are essential. There is particular emphasis on the use of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Network/Endpoint Detection and Response (NDR/EDR), and threat hunting (e.g. MITRE, TTPs).

In addition to strong technical skills, the candidate will need to be self-directed and motivated, an effective communicator, and enjoy working across teams for delivery. A focus on collaboration and consensus building is essential.

Conduct cyber security operations, comprising Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Network/Endpoint Detection and Response, threat intelligence, and threat hunting (e.g. MITRE, TTPs)

Conduct cyber security incident investigation, analysis, containment, and recovery. To include continuous improvement of SOP and development of metrics.

Provide a threat intelligence capability for current and emerging threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and technology developments, for continuous improvement of detection, response, and threat hunting capabilities (e.g. Indicators of Compromise, TTPs)

Conduct vulnerability assessments and cyber-attack simulations, and develop hardened device configuration standards, working with stakeholders for implementation

Support cyber assurance programmes (e.g. GovAssure)

Demonstrable experience with Intrusion Detection (IDS) and Network and Endpoint Detection/Response (NDR/EDR), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and other common cyber-security technologies

Demonstrable knowledge of cyber-attack analysis, able to correlate multiple event sources to provide a complete analysis of an intrusion, and to effective threat hunt (e.g. MITRE, kill chain)

Demonstrable experience with best practice Incident Response principles (e.g. NCSC/NIST)

Demonstrable knowledge of Threat Intelligence reporting and modelling

Desirable: familiarity with NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Threat intelligence and threat assessment (Working)
• Intrusion Detection and Analysis (Working)
• Incident management, incident investigation and response (Practitioner)
• Cyber Security Operations (Practitioner)

Alongside your salary of £55,000, UK Debt Management Office contributes £14,850 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
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%