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We operate hybrid working, giving you the flexibility to work up to two days a week from home.

HMRC is looking for people with the experience or aptitude to join us as a Data Analyst. You can look forward to receiving our 12-month tailored training programme, the support of a mentor and excellent potential for career development.

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

As a Data Analyst you will have access to one of the biggest data platforms in UK government. This will enable you to lead on the exploration of a range of sophisticated data sets using a variety of analytical tools and techniques. You’ll work with teams across HMRC, enabling you to be at the forefront of tax fraud, evasion, and avoidance. Your analysis will support frontline colleagues across HMRC to deliver our Compliance strategy.
 
You will need to have real passion for analysis, an innovative approach and be able to enhance analytical products to maximise revenue. You’ll fully exploit new data and technology to ensure that a wide set of innovative opportunities are explored, evaluating options, impacts, risks, and solutions to provide clear problem definitions. This opportunity will give you the skills to help us identify and predict patterns of behaviour to understand emerging trends.

Key Responsibilities

• Using a variety of software to analyse and interpret data to come up with conclusions and recommendations
• Ensuring a set of innovative opportunities are explored; evaluating options, impacts, risks, and solutions to provide transparent problem definitions and encourage exploitation of data and technology
• Working with collaborators to identify and clarify the overall scope and requirements of the analytical work
• Identifying and sharing best practice and continuously reviewing our business processes, proactively using analysis to improve our insight and the products we provide
• Summarising and presenting data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users

As a Data Analyst you’ll be part of the Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) profession in the Civil Service. The essential and desirable criteria below are aligned to the DDaT framework – you can read more about this here.

Essential Criteria

Your application must demonstrate:

• Analysis and synthesis You are able to use software to manipulate and analyse data. For example, using Excel or other software to merge, analyse and consolidate data using pivot tables, functions, and charts
• Communication You can demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills. You understand how to share insights with technical and non-technical audiences
• Data quality assurance, validation, and linkage You can identify appropriate ways to collect, collate and prepare data. You can decide if data is accurate and fit for purpose
• Logical and creative thinking You can apply logic and creativity to approach a problem

Desirable criteria

To succeed in this role, the following experience would be an advantage:

• IT and mathematics You can demonstrate IT and mathematical skills through relevant qualifications or work experience
• Analysis and synthesis You have an understanding of, or experience of using, data modelling tools and techniques, and the ability to apply this knowledge when developing targeted solutions to deliver business benefits. (e.g. SPSS, SAS, SQL, R, PYTHON)
• Data visualisation You can use the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling stories that are relevant to business goals and can be acted upon

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

• A Technical analytical assessment at interview

Alongside your salary of £34,404, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £9,289 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The calculation above is HMRC’s annual contribution to your pension based on the national rate salary.

We offer a huge range of other benefits including:

• Hybrid home/office working pattern with flexibility to work up to two days a week from home
• A flexi-time scheme allowing you to vary your start, finish, and break times as long as you work your total hours
• Generous paid parental and adoption leave
• 25 days annual leave in your first year, increasing by one day for each year’s qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days
• Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle

Our main Defra DDTS hubs are in York, Warrington, Newcastle, Reading and Bristol, however the successful candidate may be contractually based at any Defra office. Please note regular travel to London will be required.

Please be aware that space within the London office is restricted and it may not be possible to be based in this location.

Defra is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people’s day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.

Digital, Data and Technology Services (DDTS) is the trusted team for digital across the entire Defra Group.

We have around 1,200 colleagues across DDTS and our ambition is to make it easier and faster than ever for people to interact with Defra. If you are ready to drive innovation and push boundaries, we want to hear from you. Join us and together we will create a great place for living, and a green and healthy future for all.

Find out more about DDTS:

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As the Travel Security Lead for Defra group Security, you will be a subject matter expert, playing a key security role at the heart of Defra. The role will focus on facilitating Defra Group staff to work securely whilst overseas, including high-risk areas.

Do you enjoy working with people, learning new things and solving problems? Then we’d love to hear from you!

The role is responsible to Defra’s Security Advisor for Protective Security and key stakeholders for the running, management and delivery of advice, guidance and technical solutions for Defra Group staff working overseas. You will be shaping departmental policy and the security function procedures to support this policy as well as communicating across Defra Group to ensure staff are aware of the policies, timelines and procedures. You will define processes, through work with the national technical authorities and Government Security Centres, and working with HR to make informed, risk-based judgements on a case-by-case basis.

We are a thriving and growing team of 60 people with lots of opportunity to get involved in different areas in the wider team.

Please note this post requires applicants to hold Security Clearance (SC) vetting level, prior to taking up this position and be willing to undergo a Developed Vetting (DV) level of clearance and be successful in obtaining STRAP clearance. If this requirement is not met, the individual will not be able to progress their application further.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining management information to identify trends and patterns which may indicate training, communications or policy gaps and produce key performance indicators and metrics. Identifying technical solutions and suitable training. Both will need to be justified by robust cost-benefit tested business cases.
• Liaising with the National Technical Authorities, UK Security Vetting, the Government Security Centres and likeminded Government Departments to ensure Defra’s policies are coherent with other government departments and aligned to changing risk factors.
• Working with the security function communications team and the internal departmental communications team to ensure that departmental staff members understand the requirements on them when travelling overseas and the timelines required.
• Providing assistance to the Technical Services team as a Deputy STRAP Security Officer (STRAPSO) and provide support to higher classification working.

Skills and experience

• Experience in working for His Majesty’s Government or large corporate organisations overseas, to enable risk-based decisions to be made for applications to travel abroad as part of official business or personal travel.
• Capacity and capability to apply good judgement and respond to complex, dynamic situations. High degree of resilience, personal credibility, enthusiasm and commitment to deliver.
• Experience of providing an excellent level of customer service and be prepared to be creative in identifying workable, risk-based solutions in support of non-standard official travel overseas.
• Excellent communication skills and be able to provide succinct briefings and advice to colleagues at all levels of seniority, some of whom will have limited technical ability or knowledge.
• Experience in formulating, identifying and implementing improved systems and processes.
• Ability to plan and liaise across teams and functions in support of international event attendance and VIP travel.
• Membership of the Security Institute or equivalent experience and commitment to work towards qualification.

Selection process

The Civil Service marks each element of the selection process on a merit basis. You can visit the gov.uk website for further information on the Civil Service rating scale.

Ensure you have tailored your CV and Personal Statement to the ‘responsibilities’ and ‘skills and experience’ section of the job advert by providing examples on how you are suitable for the role. We would recommend using the STAR method.

For further information on STAR, you can check out our hints and tips document.

Application

As part of the application process, you will be assessed on your experience and will be asked to complete:

• A CV
• A 750-word personal statement: Referring to the ‘responsibilities and skills and experience’ sections of the job advert, please demonstrate how you are suitable for the role by providing relevant examples.

Sift

Sift will begin shortly after the advert closes.

Should there be a large number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted using your personal statement.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment or interview.

Interview

If successful at sift stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed on the Behaviours listed below.

Interviews dates are to be confirmed. Please note that these may be subject to change.

Interviews will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams.

For further information on Success Profiles, please use the links below and watch our videos on Defra Jobs.

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

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

Alongside your salary of £37,295, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £10,069 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• 25 days’ leave (rising to 30 days over 5 years) plus bank holidays
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• A day off per year for the King’s birthday
• Access to a range of retail discounts (these include supermarket, tech, gym, holiday, phone and more)
• Flexible working options such as condensed hours, part-time and flexi time
• 3 paid volunteering days per year
• Funding for professional membership of a recognised professional body
• Learning and development tailored to your role and budget for training or qualifications
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plan to help you manage health costs for a reduced monthly fee
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme open 24 hours, 7 days a week, that provides support to you during any times of stress or difficulty
• Free access to Headspace for wellbeing
• Season ticket loan for public transport

London

This is an exciting time to join the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). We are the department for economic growth and support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

The DBT Trade Negotiations Security Team (TNST) is tasked with the development and delivery of ground-breaking and innovative ways for trade negotiators to work safely and securely across the UK and overseas.

TNST works to protect the UK’s trade negotiators, corporate IT and UK/Free Trade Agreement partner information, as well as provide advice and promote a security conscious culture across the HMG negotiation teams operating overseas, at trade negotiations facilities in the UK and remotely.

The team considers what’s required to protect staff, information, equipment and (as required) the trade negotiations estate. TNST works closely with a range of internal and global stakeholders across Whitehall.

The successful candidate will manage the day-to-day delivery of the services and staff that the TNST provides. The candidate will ensure that standards of services are maintained and where possible continually improved. This focuses on physical, procedural, technical and personnel security.

This role will provide effective engagement, direction and development to TNST and other operational security team members in order to achieve the highest standards of quality and service delivery to the Chief Negotiators and to their teams.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

• Understand HMG security policies and use them to support UK trade negotiations in the UK and/or overseas.
• Responsible for delivering operational security requirements to effectively manage risk to staff, information and assets.
• Effective management and supervision of the team.
• Continually review delivery processes to ensure they are meeting business needs.
• Using knowledge of overseas government protective security arrangements to design, promote and deliver levels of security commensurate with a range of existing, merging and future threats.
• Work with the wider departmental security team to ensure that staff are aware of their security responsibilities.

Hybrid working

The role will be based in London.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DBT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

Support in applying for our vacancies is available by joining a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.

Essential Criteria

• Effective customer-centric approach, with an ability to engage and communicate clearly to understand and meet stakeholder requirements.
• Experience and/or knowledge of HMG security policies (physical, personnel, information and cyber).
• The ability to analyse and resolve problems and identify areas of improvement.
• Experience in developing and following security policies and advising on best security practice and processes in a range of environments.
• Willing and able to travel overseas to support negotiations.

Desirable Criteria

• A self-starter with a proven track record in operations management and excellent customer service experience and skills.
• Knowledge of delivery, implementation and managing outsourced security contracts.
• Experience of establishing and managing a security team with multiple priorities. Business, operations and service delivery skills with people management responsibilities.
• Experienced in managing budgets, forecasting, year end reconciliation, preparation of estates/security budget submission.
• Excellent team player, also able to act on own initiative and make choices, influencing and coaching others with strong communication skills, in both oral and written forms. Making decisions confidently when needed, even if they prove difficult or unpopular.
• A working knowledge of protective security arrangements in use by HMG overseas, including at (but not exclusively) the UK’s diplomatic missions.

Personal Attributes & Skills

We are looking for someone who is able to:

• Take personal responsibility for the quality of their own work and that of their reports.
• Work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Retain an attention to detail whilst working to tight deadlines.
• Lead a team when working away from the office.
• Empowered to make decisions.

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

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

Alongside your salary of £41,553, Department for Business and Trade contributes £11,219 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%

Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ

We believe Companies House is a great place to work and we’d love you to come and join us!

At Companies House our aim is to be the best registry of companies in the world, achieved through brilliant people, working on brilliant systems, delivering brilliant services. Through our new powers we’re excited to be working across government to fight economic crime.

We’re going through an exciting change at Companies House as our new powers are being introduced. As part of this we’re looking for a Senior Intelligence Analyst to be at the forefront of our new intelligence and law enforcement powers.

We need a strategic, committed, experienced Senior Intelligence Analyst who can be a leader, working independently but is also great as part of a team.

Do you thrive in a challenging, dynamic environment?

Do you want be at the forefront of supporting the government’s fight against economic crime?

If so, this role is for you and we’d love to receive your application!

As a Senior Intelligence Analyst you will:

• Lead the delivery of our analytical work in to set our strategic intelligence direction
• Own the commissioning and production of our first Strategic Intelligence Assessment which will drive the priority threats
• Provide senior oversight to direct, develop and co-ordinate our intelligence strategy
• Develop intelligence standards and ensure they are embedded into our corporate strategy
• Commission, develop and maintain processes, intelligence products, and other core intelligence functions for to assist decision making, identifying, owning and/or managing threat risk and harm, ensuring compliance with national standards and relevant legislation
• Build operational partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders including Law Enforcement Agencies and other government departments
• Line manage our team of intelligence analysts.

We’re looking for a Senior Intelligence Analyst with:

• Extensive understanding and experience of developing and producing, strategic and operational intelligence and risk products.
• An understanding of the intelligence cycle and the role of intelligence in the investigative process.
• Strategic and operational experience in a regulatory or law enforcement agency environment.

And knowledge of the:

• National Intelligence Model.
• Wider economic crime ecosystem in which we operate, including enforcement partners and bodies such as the Financial Conduct Authority, Insolvency Service and the National Economic Crime Centre.
• Relevant legislation, including the Companies Act.

About us
We’re proud of who we are at Companies House, valuing our people and creating a real sense of community. We encourage professional development, celebrate success, and live our values to effect real change. To find out more about the great things we’re doing at Companies House please have a look at our blog posts and podcasts. and watch our video to find out more


As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfill our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader.  Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership

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

• We’re looking for a Senior Intelligence Analyst with: • Formal training in Intelligence Analysis – this could be a qualification such as, Level 4 Diploma in Intelligence Analysis, NIAT, GIAT, DIAM, ANACAPA or an equivalent.

Alongside your salary of £40,676, Companies House contributes £11,015 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

You’ll be part of a great team a Companies House, receiving a competitive salary and very generous contributory Civil Service Pension, we also offer a benefits package including:

 – A generous 30 days annual leave (based on full time hours) in addition to public holidays
 
 – Instant Awards – to say thank you and recognise great effort and contributions
 
 – Great work life balance with flexible working
 
 – A pro-active approach to employee wellbeing that allows our colleagues to flourish and be their best at work
 
 – A focus on career development and progression
 
 – Inclusive Network Groups to support our colleagues and a great Sports and Social Society
 
 – On site gym with subsidised membership and free on-site car parking

City of Westminster, London (region), SW1H 9AJ

• Are you a Senior Security Professional looking for a new challenge?
• Are you highly adaptable and great at building constructive relationships at all levels?
• Do you like the idea of learning from and influencing three different stakeholder Government Departments?

If so, why don’t you think of applying for this unusual role where you will be the senior security professional in three diverse and fascinating Government Departments. There are a terrific range of issues to be tackled ranging from the security of the Doomsday  Book to managing the risk posed by foreign surveillance technology in new buildings.

The role is part of the Government Security Leadership Group relying on close links with the Cabinet Office and other Senior Security Professionals across Government.  It’s potentially a great steppingstone to promotion because of the responsibility and the wide range of issues you will come across.

The role has massive senior visibility with a lot of exposure to the top of all three organisations.  You will be influential with your expertise being recognised and acted upon.  The role is very autonomous- working for three stakeholders, with three different laptops and three different email addresses, you will need to be incredibly organised and ruthless in prioritisation of commitments both from your departments and the centre.

Whilst you don’t have a single team working for you, there is a range of great people supporting you in the three different Departments.  All departments operate on a hybrid basis, with the majority of “office days” being in or around London.  There is an occasional need to travel on a planned basis to other locations, including Liverpool- on average up to 3 days a month.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Providing advice and engaging with CEO and Executive Committee Boards, the Audit and Risk Committees and accountable Directors to determine how to mitigate security risks affecting all business areas.
• Working closely with and advising senior colleagues in IT, operations, data protection, estates, and HR teams to ensure the security needs of each organisation are met in the most efficient way;
• Acting as a security ambassador, encouraging adoption and compliance with the Security Functional Standards framework with each Department and their contractors.
• Embedding government security culture within the departments, across people, technology, operations, and suppliers, building organisational proficiency at identifying, managing, and reporting security issues and risks;
• As a member of the Government Security Profession, leading engagement with Government Security Group and providing oversight of all security assurance.
• Determining the business case for securing funding and negotiating the services to be procured from the central government offer and acting as the departments’ intelligent customer for the delivery of these services;
• Scrutinising the services provided by the Government Security Centres, to ensure they meet the agreed service level defined in the Service Level Agreements. Reviewing Service Level Agreements to ensure that the services provided meet the needs of the departments;
• Monitoring, advising, and supporting Security staff and contractors;
• Hands on management and coordination, including running Security Working Groups in all three departments;
• To act as a main point of contact for all three departments into GSG and the wider security community, feeding into cross government Incident Response activities and monitoring the changes in requirements coming out of the centre and distilling it to actionable information for the departments.

As a Security Adviser community member across government:

• Maintain and develop your own and other’s security skills and knowledge across government
• Enthusiastically contribute to government security standards
• Actively analyse and assess quality of centrally provisioned service offerings
• Actively liaise with other Security colleagues to share and embed best practice within your departments

Ability

• To form excellent relationships within each department and with the wider security community; including the NTAs, with knowledge to draw on experts/the expertise of others when required;
• To analyse, translate and simplify complex information in order to provide appropriate advice and guidance.
• To take a cross-government approach, considering the impact of your decisions in the broadest of settings;
• Have the gravitas to build trust and develop strategic relationships with senior stakeholders and be able to represent technology challenges through a business lens.

 Experience

• Evidence of leading security and risk management at a senior level
• Awareness of issues arising when working in subject areas of risk management, data protection, information, data, cyber, personnel and physical security
• Managing contracts and representing senior stakeholders.

Technical

• Knowledge specifically of cyber security or IS Security Controls and Risk management;
• For all issues, identifying and assessing risks and implementing strategic solutions;
• Application of risk management principles during the management of work and when making decisions.
• Handling data and information sensitively in accordance with the business procedures and/or law.
• Willingness to undergo Developed Vetting
• Any relevant and recognised security qualifications/certifications such as CISSP, SABSA,CISM or willingness to undertake same or similar

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Alongside your salary of £63,870, Charity Commission contributes £17,245 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

This is your chance to make a contribution that really matters and to make an impact in an organisation where your voice will be heard and your hard work noticed.

Watch this short video to find out more about us.

We operate a flexible hybrid working policy where office attendance is combined with at least 3 days homeworking per week dependent on role requirements.

We recognise everyone as an individual, accepting people for who they are and treating everyone fairly.

We offer access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme (employer contributions of 27.1%), far more than in the private sector, and a flexible, family-friendly environment, plus you can look forward to other great benefits via our ‘Perkbox’ scheme. These include everything from an interest-free season ticket loan and bicycle loan after two months to discounts on gym membership, cinema tickets and restaurants.

You will start on 25 days leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service and previous service with another government department will be recognised for this purpose.

Work at the Charity Commission and you’ll make a difference every day. To the 170,000 charities of all shapes and sizes that we regulate across England and Wales. To the trustees we partner with and advise. And to the people and causes that benefit from the £10bn generously donated each year by the public.

Find out more about working for us here.

Any move across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018 may have implications on an employee’s ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers.

London

The Joint Intelligence Organisation leads on intelligence assessment and development of the UK intelligence community’s analytical capability, supporting the work of the Joint Intelligence Committee(JIC) and National Security Council (NSC).

The Joint Intelligence Organisation incorporates the Assessments Staff and the Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment, both supported by extensive capability functions.

The JIO incorporates the Assessments Staff and the Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (led by a third Director). The Assessments Staff consists of intelligence analysts seconded from a wide range of departments and disciplines. It is responsible for drafting assessments of situations and issues of current concern, providing warnings of threats to British interests and identifying and monitoring instability risks. We focus in particular on issues where all-source assessment can help policy makers take better decisions on national security issues.

The Assessments Staff draw upon a range of intelligence, primarily from the intelligence agencies but also diplomatic reporting, contacts with academics and business people and open source material. Use of data is becoming increasingly important. The JIC agrees most important assessments before they are circulated to Ministers and senior officials.

This is a critical role at the heart of the UK’s intelligence assessment community.  The Deputy Directors of the Assessments Staff report to the Directors of Assessments Staff, who in turn report to the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).

The successful candidate will oversee two G6-led teams in the Assessments Staff, focusing on:

• Asia-Pacific, excluding China
• Africa (North and Sub-Saharan)
• South America
• The Middle East, particularly Iran

Deliver Excellence in Assessment – JIO’s core business is to deliver high quality, relevant assessments that inform decision-making by the Prime Minister, National Security Council and senior officials. JIO is often required to deliver high quality assessment at pace, particularly during crisis situations. You will be responsible for ensuring that your team’s products are delivered to high standards of analytic tradecraft and draw on the best available evidence base. You will ensure JIO products are engaging and useable through creative use of data visualisation and ensuring that the classification and format of products is tailored to customer needs. You will operate effectively under pressure to deliver a quality service at pace, ensuring our analysis is delivered on time and has maximum impact with decision-makers.

Lead & Manage – Your leadership skills will provide clarity and direction to your diverse team of analysts. You will empower staff to work to their strengths, and provide stretching opportunities for individuals’ development and to help them build their professional skills. You will build an inclusive culture that is open to challenge. Managing a team from a variety of backgrounds and organisations, you will ensure all have a clear understanding of how their experience in JIO supports their chosen career path and work with them to help them advance their career goals whilst securing the best performance outcomes for the business.

Ensure Effective Impact – You will engage closely and actively with policy customers and decision-makers to identify where and when JIO analysis will have impact, based on a strong understanding of policy priorities. You will embed strong customer focus and excellent stakeholder engagement across your team, taking personal responsibility for ensuring JIO’s analysis is value-adding and impactful.

You will have a senior representative role and will regularly have opportunities to deputise for the Directors of Assessments Staff at senior meetings on foreign and security policy, as well as other key engagements. You will have a track record in delivering improvement through innovation. You will take the initiative in finding opportunities for JIO to develop its capabilities so that it remains a world-leading analytic organisation. You will be proactive in ensuring JIO is a learning organisation, investing in activities that drive continuous improvement in our customer engagement, partnerships, tools, skills and business processes.

You will be excited about the possibilities that advances in data analytics and open source exploitation offer for our assessments work. You will grow and embed JIO’s nascent capability in emerging technology assessment, navigating new customers and partners to identify opportunities for JIO to deliver unique impact. You will ensure that JIC assessments bring together data, expertise and knowledge from across HMG through exceptional teamwork, inviting and enabling constructive challenge. You’ll also build effective relationships with international partners, and experts outside government.

Working Culture – You will play a broader leadership role as part of the JIO’s senior leadership team, working to ensure JIO continues to thrive and adapt in a rapidly-changing landscape. You will set a culture that celebrates and encourages innovation, and which fully embraces diversity and inclusion and the benefits they bring to our organisation. You will help ensure JIO supports and invests in the wellbeing of its staff, recognising how it is critical to exceptional business performance.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provide excellent leadership of your analyst teams, communicating purpose and direction with clarity. Proactively manage resources and capabilities toward these goals. Provide effective line management of two Grade 6 team leaders.
• Lead JIO’s close engagement with HM Government policy-makers on Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East ensuring our assessment is focused on their strategic needs.
• Deliver high-quality, timely all-source assessment products for the areas under your remit, in support of policy priorities. Strive for excellence, developing the skills and professional capabilities of JIO analysts and embedding professional standards in analytic tradecraft.
• Promote customer focus across your teams – ensuring JIO analytical products are engaging and impactful, making effective use of a range of formats (including oral briefings, visualisations, and releasable versions) to maximise the value from our assessment work to customers and partners.
• Set a learning culture, exploring and embedding innovation in data analytics in your topic areas.
• Sustain productive international partnerships, and develop partnerships outside government to access best-in-class expertise and data.
• Contribute to JIO’s broader organisational development as a fully-engaged member of JIO’s senior leadership team.
• Play an active role in promoting staff wellbeing and in building an inclusive JIO culture.

The successful candidate will be able to show the following Essential Criteria:

• Highly effective leadership skills, including the ability to build, motivate and develop high performing, diverse teams.
• A strong track record of delivery, able to prioritise and manage a broad portfolio to deliver high quality outcomes at pace.
• Effective communicator, confident in engaging at senior levels across and outside the Civil Service. Ability to hone and deliver oral and written material for the most senior customers in a way that maximises usefulness and impact.
• Strong collaborator, able to build strong, productive relationships with customers and partners inside and outside HMG.
• Keen to play a broader leadership role as part of JIO’s senior leadership team. Committed to building an inclusive culture and supporting staff wellbeing.
• Knowledge or experience of one or more of the issues covered in the team, and some experience of working on international security or foreign policy issues.

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

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

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

• Verbal Communication of Intelligence Assessment – Highly Proficient/Advanced
• Informing Decision-making – Highly Proficient/Advanced

Alongside your salary of £73,000, Cabinet Office contributes £19,170 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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

This includes:

• 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays and one privilege day to mark the King’s birthday. 
• A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension; where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken; and where your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire;
• Flexible working patterns including part-time or time-term working and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours;
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers;
• Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle;
• The opportunity to use onsite facilities including fitness centres and staff canteens (where applicable); and
• Occupational sick pay.

Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

Information and Digital Directorate (IDD)

IDD are responsible for delivering digital, data and technology and information management solutions and services to support the FCDO and UK Government partners deliver our international diplomatic, development and consular outcomes.

The work we do in IDD is varied – from historical analysis and library services to cyber protection, from user research to global network management, from supporting staff in using the latest Microsoft toolsets, to architecting major corporate applications and much more. The Directorate is made up of a wide range of talented staff and experts including specialist, contractors, home civil servants, and diplomats who have served overseas.

Our ambition is to build an FCDO widely recognised as a world leader in the use of technology and data to achieve diplomatic and development outcomes. We want to be faster, more agile, better informed, more targeted and more resilient in the face of global disruption.

Information and Digital Directorate has a crucial role to play in supporting and enabling organisational change, working in partnership with teams across FCDO, the UK Government and the international community. That means becoming an ever more professional and expert Data, Digital and Technology organisation – one that not only keeps pace with today but is equipped for tomorrow.

Information and Cyber Security Unit (ICSD) overview

Within IDD, is ICSD, indispensable to the FCDO’s success. The unit has multiple functions ranging from advice on cyber security, operational security, risk and incident management, information assurance and IT architecture covering our global network.  Led by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), ICSD are responsible for ensuring the FCDO’s information and systems are secure, resilient, and available. Our Team is growing, and this role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of Cyber Security in Government. The successful candidate will benefit from on the job learning and exposure to market leading technologies and working with highly skilled and experienced cyber security professionals. Cyber Security work is a leading priority within the FCDO, with senior high-level support and a commitment to the importance of the work.

Vacancy Description

As a Security Architect you will be expected to work on multiple projects and programmes, providing guidance and analysis, working with other Lead and Principal Technical, Enterprise and Assurance architects to create, advise and refine existing roadmaps and blueprints for FCDO’s Information Digital Directorate (IDD), within the Information Cyber Security Department (ICSD).

Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible supporting the department’s technical direction and building our security policies and standards. You’ll lead on supporting, designing, and implementing secure services to these standards, using a combination of written guidance, technical resources, and hands-on advisory. You’ll also feed into our wider FCDO Cyber Security Strategy 2022 and technical roadmap.

We’re looking for a Security Architect whose responsibilities will include: –

• Developing the principles, standards, and supporting strategy, risk, and assurance for security architecture across FCDO, representing IDD 
• Lead the security architecture and advisory function, by providing strategic direction and coordinating day-to-day work
• Develop and maintain the cyber security policies and standards, and architectural patterns and designs that underpin the secure delivery of digital services
• Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to new or existing cyber security problems, leading on design and/or the assurance of designs
• Lead the delivery of security architecture advisory to service teams across FCDO.
• Interact with senior technical stakeholders across the department to understand technology problems, identify innovative technical solutions, and influence cyber security maturity.

Be involved in the Security, and FCDO technical community, identifying good practices.

We all have a responsibility to embrace the changes of the FCDO as it transforms, building the culture we want to see and delivering our cultural statement in how we lead and behave towards others; how we make decisions and how we get the job done is everyone’s responsibility.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

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

• Security architecture – Practitioner
• Applied security capability – Practitioner
• Information risk assessment and risk management – Working
• Threat Understanding – Working

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

• Security architecture – Practitioner

• We understand that people are at the heart of our success. We promote and encourage all our staff to follow continued professional development, offering our staff access to a range of learning and development opportunities.

• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Bristol, South West England, BS1 6PN

We have an exciting opening for a Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer who not only possesses excellent technical expertise but has the aptitude to lead a team and effectively communicate with stakeholders and customers.

The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.

We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.

For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please see the information pack attached. You can also view our careers page at Civil Service Careers

The Infrastructure and Platforms Service is responsible for delivering and maintaining the underlying structure required for the digital solutions which allow The Planning Inspectorate to achieve its objectives. Our digital platform portfolio has undergone a significant transformation, with a strong focus on cloud-based services in Azure/M365, supported by Microsoft Surface and Apple iPhone client devices. We collaborate with various partner organisations for telephony, hardware support, and help desk services.

As the leader of our dedicated team of Infrastructure Engineers, you will play a crucial role in providing a high-quality service to our users. Your primary responsibilities will include ensuring the availability, security, and optimal performance of the systems supported by the team. Additionally, you will focus on providing our users with fully functional devices, seamless access to essential applications, and the necessary tools to carry out their jobs effectively.

As a Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer, you will be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing the security, reliability, and performance of our systems. Your strong problem-solving skills will enable you to lead incident management, effectively prioritise and resolve issues, and collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams to deliver optimal solutions.

Your clear and persuasive communication style will be instrumental in coordinating responses, keeping stakeholders well-informed, and providing valuable technical support to projects, ensuring that requirements are met.

Additionally, your strong leadership capabilities will be instrumental in nurturing and developing your team, fostering a collaborative environment that promotes inclusivity and continuous improvement.

In a typical week you will plan the team’s workload, including your own, and carry out line management duties.

You will work proactively with Service Managers and Architects on the roadmap for the Service and you will be involved in cross-departmental meetings to understand workstreams and manage resources accordingly.

You may need to respond quickly to problems or incidents using both your technical and interpersonal skills to investigate, communicate, and resolve issues, delegating tasks to the team as required.

You will also be part of an on-call rota, typically being on-call for one week in four, with occasional out of hours working, usually at the weekend as part of the regular patching cycle.

We have a strong flexible working ethos with plenty of home working and flexibility around your hours, provided we cover core business hours across the team. While the minimum attendance in Temple Quay House for office staff is 12 days per year, the team is typically on-site more frequently to perform key tasks and provide on-site support to other staff. The successful candidate will need to agree appropriate attendance levels for themselves and the team with the Service Manager.

For full information on the role and assessment process please refer to the candidate pack attached.

Hybrid working

All of our office-based roles are contractually located at Temple Quay House in Bristol. Most of our roles are able to work in a hybrid manner and you will be expected to attend Temple Quay House at least 12 days a year. Depending on your role, you may be required to attend more often than 12 days a year either permanently or temporarily to ensure we deliver our services in the most efficient and effective way for our customers. If you would like to discuss our Hybrid Working Policy in more detail.

Please contact us at PINS.Recruitment@PlanningInspectorate.gov.uk

Essential Criteria

• Problem-solving experience
• Excellent communication, customer engagement, and inter‐personal skills.
• Experience of Microsoft Azure management including but not limited to; configuring environments for additional services, building and commissioning additional services, virtual machines, maintaining a secure environment and patch management.
• Experience of managing and maintaining a Microsoft 365 environment including but not limited to: policy management and deployment, security, and application deployment.
• Experience of IT service management tools (preferably ServiceNow).
• Experience of working within Service Level Agreements and ITIL processes, and an awareness of key change management processes.
• The post holder will be expected to manage and participate in a 24/7 on-call rota for out of hours support for critical infrastructure. With a full team in place this equates to being on-call for one 7-day week in four. An on-call allowance is provided.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of Active Directory, Windows Server 2003 – 2012, and Group Policy administration.
• Experience of implementing and managing monitoring tools.
• Relevant professional qualification (e.g., ITIL Practitioner, Microsoft Certificate).
• Knowledge of Cyber Security issues and how to reduce the risk of malicious attacks.
• Knowledge of the Government’s Digital strategies and codes of practice, including Data Protection regulations.

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

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving

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

• Service Monitoring
• Enhancing Technology Platforms

Alongside your salary of £41,560, Planning Inspectorate contributes £11,263 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Flexible working options, including flexi-time, part-time, compressed hours and home working if suitable for the role.
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.
• There is a choice of excellent pensions schemes. More information about pensions can be found at https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk
• 25 days annual leave increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days after 5 years, plus 1 privilege day to mark the King’s birthday. In addition to the normal bank holidays.
• Generous family friendly policies.
• Fast and modern IT kit which utilises Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, enabling seamless working from home and collaboration across teams.

For full information see our Benefits information pack.

Priory Court – Dover

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

We are looking for candidates who want real stretch and develop in their everyday roles. If you are looking for your next challenge and the opportunity to shape the future of Criminal and Financial Investigation within the Home Office, then this role is for you. We are looking to build on our core financial investigative teams with people who are driven and have the capability and skills to work at the heart of immigration crime.

The successful candidates will play a vital role in enabling an effective response in the fight against the gangs behind immigration abuse. You will have strong technical credibility with a proven ability to work under pressure with good interpersonal skills. You will deliver to consistently high standards of financial investigation, risk mitigation and value for money within your area and enhance decision-making through your ability to influence and explain complex financial information in a clear and understandable way.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidates to develop and embed a range of people and engagement skills within a high performing team, delivering what is required to continue to make the team a great place to work and to support colleagues and Senior Managers to deliver.

Working for Immigration Enforcement is challenging and fast paced, requiring sound decision making in demanding and often time-sensitive situations and environments and can require working to tight deadlines dictated by the court and the Crown Prosecution Service. Financial Investigators operate nationally, hence there will be a requirement to deploy at short notice, which may involve overnight stays away from home. In addition, training courses may be anywhere in the UK and residential.

Financial investigation asset recovery work falls under civil legislation and the search for assets requires innovative and meticulous thinking.

To work in Immigration Enforcement, you must be able to meet these challenges while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and teamwork with adherence to our vision statement:

Tackling immigration crime by empowering our people, inspiring confidence and protecting communities.

The Financial Investigation Units work closely with their Crime Team colleagues, Crown Prosecution Service CPS and Home Office lawyers to:

• Investigate the extent and whereabouts of criminal benefit, confiscate criminal assets after conviction and deny criminals of any further financial gain.

• Restrain criminal assets via CPS to prevent dissipation and protect assets for confiscation.

• Seize, detain and investigate cash, listed assets, and freeze bank accounts.

Responsibilities

• Drafting and applying for financial orders at Magistrates and Crown Court.

• Analysing financial material predominantly bank accounts.

• Drafting comprehensive summaries/statements in criminal and civil proceedings for submission to crime team colleagues, CPS lawyers, counsel and the courts.

• Interviewing witnesses and suspects.

• Conducting premises searches to identify the extent and whereabouts of criminal benefit, including financial investigation support to the crime teams in support of prosecutions.

• Giving evidence during court hearings (all CFI staff are required to disclose any adverse judicial decisions or internal disciplinary matters under CPIA. Applicants need to bear this in mind when considering their eligibility for this post).

• Participating in a national FI on-call roster.

• Undertaking/progressing cash seizures, listed asset, and frozen funds investigations.

• Reporting FI activity on departmental databases and on the Joint Assets Recovery Database. (JARD).

• Reporting to the Chief Immigration Officer and Her Majesty’s Inspector with case updates.

• Managing case load of investigations. You will be accountable for expedient and thorough investigations.

Arrest training – The successful candidates will be required to undergo and pass a health assessment, which is usually repeated every three years (although this can sometimes be yearly for specific health reasons). Financial Investigators in Immigration Enforcement are arrest trained. If not already appropriately trained, successful candidates will also need to attend an initial 2-week PST arrest course to be arrest trained to PST level 3 and pass an annual PST refresher.  You will also need to attend a 2-week induction course.

This position is only open to applicants who are willing to be trained as Financial Investigators. This accreditation can only be obtained through the National Crime Agency – Proceeds of Crime Centre and its training pathway. This involves studying, taking exams which are pass or fail, submission of work portfolios and mentoring.

You will be required to obtain and maintain your FI accreditation (Continuing Professional Development) with The Proceeds of Crime Centre (NCA) which includes regular assessed learning.

The FI learning pathway is detailed below. All officers will be trained up to and including confiscation. The FI structure consists of three workstreams.

These workstreams are:

• Financial Intelligence Officer – Gathering financial intelligence.

• Financial Investigator – (Including Civil Recovery in Summary Proceedings (CRiSP) training).

• Confiscator – focussed on identifying criminal benefit, assets and restraints.

Business needs at the current time dictate that you will be allocated as an asset recovery financial investigator.

Financial Investigators are first and foremost operational immigration officers who cover operations nationally. This is a mobile grade and as such liable to be deployed to critical incidents and other operational duties which may often be outside of their normal business area and role, and often at short notice.

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

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

Essential criteria

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, particularly the ability to produce written work to a high standard and convey complex financial detail to less knowledgeable parties.

• Competent in using IT (particularly MS Excel and Word), including creating and being able to understand spreadsheets.

• Focused, flexible and able to apply attention to detail to all aspects of the role.
 
• Knowledge/experience of the Criminal Justice System and or Immigration legislation.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in conducting investigations.

• Arrest trained.

• A practical working knowledge of immigration processes both at port and in country.

Full manual driving licence

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Making Effective Decisions

Alongside your salary of £25,750, Home Office contributes £6,952 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%

Custom House – Felixstowe, Custom House – Tilbury

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.

This vacancy presents an opportunity to work as a Field Intelligence Officer based in regions across the UK. All posts cover the full range of transport modes and the successful candidates will be responsible for collecting and managing intelligence flows within RoRo (ferry) ports, Commercial Maritime Docks, Regional Airports, General Aviation (GA) and General Maritime (GM) environments. They will utilise a variety of tactics to meet operational and strategic intelligence requirements to support Border Force Intelligence Directorate priorities.

The Border Force vision is to be an organisation in which intelligence forms the basis of its operating model and a new Intelligence Directorate has been created to enable this. This is a fast-paced environment requiring close working with both Border Force operations and policy.

Key responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

• Collection of Intelligence material in order to enhance development and targeting capability.
• Maintaining a network of Humint contacts within the commercial shipping industry, haulage industry, commercial aviation industry, general aviation and general maritime environments.
• Engaging on a local level with external law enforcement partners.
• Supporting Border Force Frontline activity.

Please note flexible attendance encompassing anti-social, potential night working, and weekend/Bank Holiday working and periods of On Call will be required. In addition, shift extensions and changes to planned attendance will also be expected, sometimes at short notice, to meet operational needs.

Please also note that Field Intelligence Officers must be willing to travel on a daily basis with occasional overnight stays. Field Intelligence Officers will be expected to travel to various locations within their areas of responsibility with occasional travel to other UK locations, therefore holding a full valid UK manual or automatic driving licence is essential.

Essential Criteria

The successful candidates must be able to demonstrate:

• The ability to prioritise tasks and work within a team environment.
• Being proactive and having the ability to react to different scenarios often within short timeframes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, together with effective time management and a flexible approach to working.
• Experience of identifying and assessing threat and risk within a law enforcement/national security environment.

A Full valid UK (manual or automatic) Driving Licence is essential

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• 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%