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Extradition is the formal procedure for requesting the surrender of a person from one country to another for the purpose of prosecution, to be sentenced for an offence for which the person has already been convicted or to carry out a sentence which has already been imposed.
The National Extradition Unit comprises a team of officers with operational responsibility for the coordination and management of extradition related cases. The unit is made up of two hubs, one based in London and one in Warrington.

The unit:

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

There will be an expectation of a willingness to travel both nationally and internationally with a number of nights away when operationally necessary.

Office Hours: Core hours are between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday.  There will be a requirement to cover an on-call rota as the unit has 24/7 availability.  There is also a large degree of flexibility required including the ability to travel nationally and internationally at short notice.

Essential Criteria: 

• Sound knowledge of the management of intelligence products in line with the National Intelligence Model.
• Experience of applying for and working under covert authorities.
• Extensive knowledge of communications data.
• Operational surveillance experience – both static and technical.
• Experience of making sound risk assessments in line with the National Decision Making Model.
• Experience of intelligence work surrounding complex fugitive enquiries.
• Police response level driver.
• Experience of working with both internal and external partners.
• Hold a valid, up to date passport.
  
  

You will be part of the Intelligence & Operational Support Team which has two primary responsibilities:

• To provide intelligence support and specialist covert capabilities to extradition fugitive enquiries.
• Case review, allocation and management to both extradition ops teams and police forces across England and Wales.

You will lead of a team of both police and police staff intelligence officers.  It is expected you will be a source of expert advice across a broad range of specialist covert policing tactics.

You should have practical experience of both surveillance, the use of communications data and the management of applications under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2006.

The role requires the supervision of the receipt of intelligence from both UK and international partners ensuring appropriate dissemination, oversight and management in line with the principles of the National Intelligence Model.

You will take responsibility for the professional development of team members by guiding, coaching and securing relevant development and training opportunities to enhance individual and team competence and enable consistently high quality performance.

Your role will also require extensive liaison and networking across all police forces within England and Wales to drive activity around extradition cases allocated to them.

This role will involve shift work and unsociable hours at short notice including an on-call rota, therefore an element of flexibility is required.  Flexibility to travel both nationally and internationally, often at short notice, will also be required.

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

Work Involves:

• Review, allocation and management of extradition cases.
• Supervising and leading deployments under covert authorities.
• Providing expert advice and guidance to operational fugitive teams around the available covert tactics to support their investigations.
• Monitor staff compliance to relevant legislation.
• Provide sound advice and guidance in respect of intelligence development.
• Support and train team members on all aspects of intelligence development.
• Liaison with partner agencies including police forces, Crown Prosecution Service, Westminster Magistrates Court, Home Office and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
• Any other work in support of operational extradition functions as required.

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

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

• Knowledge and experience of the management of intelligence products in line with the National Intelligence Model.
• Experience of operational intelligence development under both the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2006.
• Experience of developing intelligence in support of complex fugitive enquiries.

Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

Job title – Health Security Threat Analyst

Profession– Data Analytics & Surveillance

Directorate – All Hazards Intelligence

Full Time equivalent – 37.5 hours

No of Roles – 2

Contract Type – Permanent

Location – London Based or Home working

UKHSA offers hybrid working or home working for its employees – this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our UKHSA offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home. The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business need and in line with departmental policy. Some business travel will be required to other UKHSA offices. Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available

Working Pattern – Full Time/Flexible Working / Hybrid Working/ Home working

Grade & Salary – Grade SEO National banding £37,056 – £42,481  per annum. Inner London £40,876 – £45,998 per annum. Outer London – £38,967 – £44,240

New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band.

The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.

This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/.

Closing Date – 16/04/2023. 23:55pm. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered

Interview Date – W/C 22/04/2023 Please note, these dates are subject to change.

 

Job Overview

We are looking for SEO Health Security Threat Analysts to work within the All Hazards Intelligence Directorate (AHI). AHI is part of the Data Analytics and Surveillance Group (DAS), within the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), whose mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards.

The posts offer superb development opportunities and the chance to gain exposure across a broad range of policy areas, achieving real-world impact with the most senior officials and Ministers at the heart of decision making in government. The analysis that you will deliver and lead will aim to get to the bottom of the issue, drawing on a range of health and non-health related data, supplemented by front-line evidence from those delivering public services.

You will become a member of the UKHSA analytical community and will work closely with UKHSA colleagues to ensure maximum collaboration and learning can be shared across the Agency, and wider public health and emergency response communities

Main duties of the job

As part of the All Hazards Intelligence Directorate you will be right at the heart of the UKHSA’s ambitious agenda to provide health security for the nation and protect us from known and as-yet-unknown threats.

Your key responsibilities will include

o          You will be responsible for monitoring and assessing a broad spectrum of potential health threats and providing intelligence-based risk assessments to inform decision-making at the national level.

o          You will analyse a range of data sources, including epidemiological data and information, scientific publications, and government reports, to develop assessments of health hazards and the risk they pose to UK public health.

o          You will develop and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national and global health threats and trends, including infectious diseases, biological agents, chemical threats, and other emerging risks.

o          You will assess the potential impact and likelihood of health threats, including the severity of the threat, the potential spread of the threat, and the vulnerability of different groups.

o          You will employ a number of intelligence assessment and horizon scanning techniques to contribute to the development of scenarios and methodologies under which health risks can be assessed.

o          You will assess how the risk posed by health hazards is likely to develop to in both the near and long term including against the backdrop of climate change.

o          You will actively seek out and build strong relationships, with key internal and external partners to develop and challenge our assessment of the risk of health-related hazards to the UK.

o          You will produce high-quality reports and briefings on health threats, clearly communicating and presenting key findings to a range of stakeholders, including government officials, senior leaders, policy, and response colleagues.

o          You will need to successfully manage your time and the priorities of your team, working at pace to progress multiple competing tasks and manage expectations from customers and seniors.

o          You may be asked to work as part of incident response which will require working at pace and under pressure. Occasionally this may require overtime working outside of regular hours, in which case you will be entitled to time back via flexible working hours, or if agreed, overtime pay.

As a Health Security Threat Analyst within All Hazards Intelligence (AHI) at the UK Health Security Agency you will be responsible for monitoring and assessing potential health security threats and providing intelligence-based risk assessments to inform decision-making. The health hazards that you will be assessing include both endemic and emerging infectious diseases as well as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CRBN) threats. The role requires expertise in all source intelligence techniques, threat assessment, and knowledge of public health hazards. The successful candidate will work closely with other analysts, public health experts, and policy and response colleagues to identify the risk posed by a variety of health hazards, develop strategies for assessing their potential impact, and support the development of mitigations.

The Health Security Threat Analyst will be responsible for conducting analysis to assess the potential impact of health security threats on the UK population and the likelihood they will occur over different time horizons. This will involve analysing complex data sets and synthesizing health related information to develop a clear understanding of current and emerging health hazards the UK is facing. You will employ intelligence analysis techniques to compare and forecast the potential impacts of health hazards, and draft scenarios of how these will develop in the near and long term.

Working with stakeholders and subject matter experts will be a key component of the role. The Health Security Threat Analyst will work closely with stakeholders across UKHSA as well as other government departments, and academic institutions. The successful candidate will need to build effective relationships with stakeholders to ensure that they have access to the latest information on emerging health threats and can provide input into risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

This role offers the opportunity to be at the heart of understanding the public health concerns from the perspective of UKHSA and provide awareness of UKHSA response activity to help inform decision making.  As such, our ideal candidate thrives in a challenging environment, is motivated by making an impact and delivering results, and is comfortable with at times, working under pressure as well as working to strict timelines. The role requires a self-starter with an eye for detail, who has the confidence to navigate, with support, a complex stakeholder and solution environment, to deliver transformative change.

 

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

Essential Criteria:

• Strong analytical skills and sound judgement to evaluate large amounts of complex information and make effective decisions.
• An ability to think, challenge assumptions, demonstrate creativity and be open to and deliver change.
• Evidence of working effectively within a team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Evidence of being flexible and adaptable to change.
• Evidence of effective verbal and written communication skills.

 

Highly Desirable Criteria:

• Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

 

Desirable Criteria:

• Demonstrable and recent experience of working in an intelligence analysis or national security environment.
• Knowledge of public health and infectious disease threats.
• Experience working across CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) issues.
• Experience of working on high profile and fast paced issues.
• Experience tailoring analytical work to meet policy requirements

 

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together

• 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%

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

This role offers the opportunity to develop and shape a new proactive intelligence team within the SFO’s Intelligence Division, with a remit to identify potential cases that meet the Directors Statement of Principle as well as to support existing investigations.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for ensuring the oversight of a small team of Senior Intelligence Officers, collecting, evaluating, analysing and disseminating information in line with the National Intelligence Model, as well as acting in the capacity of Controller, managing the use and conduct of CHIS and HUMINT in conjunction with their handlers and ensuring their use is legally compliant.

• Providing leadership and direction to a team of intelligence officers, providing mentoring/coaching, guidance and support in order to maximise their development, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Developing and maintaining processes, intelligence products, and other core intelligence functions to assist decision making, identifying and managing threat, risk and harm, and ensuring compliance with national standards and relevant legislation.
• Collating and validating intelligence, evaluating the reliability of particular sources and the credibility of the information with a view to assisting in the strategic direction of the office. Building up accurate and comprehensive intelligence pictures, which identify potential areas of interest for the SFO, seeking clarification, obtaining more material or making further enquiries where necessary.
• Overall management of human intelligence sources, ensuring information provided is dealt with in the most appropriate manner and supervising associated risk in order to maintain operational security, developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies as necessary.
• Managing the SFO’s Assisting Offender program, acting as Senior Debrief Officer, and ensuring the process is conducted in line with national standards and legislation.
• Receiving and assessing information on the intelligence system and disseminating to relevant parties, in line with confidentiality, sensitivity and duty of care policies and relevant legislation to ensure intelligence is processed correctly.

For more information about the role and for a full list of key responsibilities, please see the attached Job Pack.

See above and attached Job Pack.

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

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

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

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

Discretionary performance-related bonus scheme.

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

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

Opportunities for learning and development.

Flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies.

Voucher for eye care and discounted spectacles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Resources Division consists of a range of functions; these include HR (incorporating, resourcing, payroll, employee relations, talent management, learning and development), Facilities, Contract Management / Procurement together with Security and Invoicing.

The Security and Resilience Team provides strategic direction and is responsible for ensuring UKEF is a resilient organization, able to identify, react, respond, and recover from incidents, issues, and threats.

The team works closely with the Government Security Group in the Cabinet Office and the UK Intelligence Community, including the National Cyber Security Centre and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure. Working closely with and advising senior colleagues of the department’s technology, HR, and estates teams to ensure their security needs are met.

The role reports to Cyber Security Manager and works closely with system owners, service providers, and external security stakeholders to continually maintain, monitor, and respond to various notifications from monitoring systems to improve UKEF’s security posture.

There are three principal areas of responsibility:

1. To monitor, maintain and protect UKEF networks, systems and assets from malicious activity using technologies such as Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) systems in use.
2. To carry out technical vulnerability assessments of IT systems through internal and external resources to identify potential vulnerabilities and make recommendations to control identified risks.
3. To assess UKEF IT systems against IT security standards and to provide independent assurance to the department.

The role also provides security support and advice to users along with UKEF’s outsourced suppliers.  The job includes both proactive and reactive elements, with project work and the expectation of responding to security issues as they arise.

The key responsibility for this post is to contribute to UKEF’s overall security posture by planning and carrying out security measures that will protect business data and information from deliberate attack, unauthorised access, corruption, and theft thus ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility (CIA) of data. Therefore, we are looking for someone who can:

Investigate All Suspicious Activities.

 You know how to detect signs of suspicious activity in systems and investigate them further. You will know which checks to carry out on all activities that are flagged as suspicious, will be able to reach conclusion and take mitigating steps.

Maintain Secure Monitoring Tools

You will also need to keep an eye on all the different tools and platforms that are used for cybersecurity. That’s so they can check that they are always working as well as they should be and that any potential issues with them are flagged and that the appropriate team members are notified. It is vitally important that they are continually monitored to ensure they are effective.

Liaise With Stakeholders

You will be expected to liaise with both internal and external stakeholders, especially you will need to have a close working relationship with IT Operations and IT service providers. Furthermore, you will be expected to maintain close contact with NCSC and GSG Cyber Defence Teams.

Review And Report on Cybersecurity Processes

You will be expected to continually review cybersecurity processes that are in use at UKEF. You will need to keep regular reports that document how well each is working and whether there is any room for updates and improvements.

Keep All Security Programs and Resources Up to Date

Most tools and resources that are used for cybersecurity, such as antivirus software, firewalls, vulnerability scanning, and system-wide operating systems, will need to be regularly updated to ensure the information systems are running the latest version. You will ensure these are kept updated through the IT Service provider.

Maintain Knowledge of Security Standards

You will have a demonstratable understanding of leading security standards and frameworks and comply with these to provide the required minimum assurance to UKEF. These include but are not limited to ISO27001, NIST CSF, GDPR and Cyber Essentials.

The above activities are not exhaustive; additional duties may arise according to business needs.

Degree-level education in a technical field

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Questions at interview to assess technical suitability.

• 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%

This post can be based at Main Building, London, RAF Wyton, Huntingdon or MOD Corsham, Wiltshire.

Are you ready to work in one of the most interesting cyber security environments and share your experience to support national security?

The Cyber Defence & Risk (CyDR) team plays an integral role in protecting the UK against external and internal cyber security threats to ensure that our Armed Forces have the strong cyber defences they need.

The team is responsible for enabling Defence, through the provision of specialist cyber security services across UK Defence including industry partners, other Government Departments and working our international allies. Services provided by CyDR include:

• MOD defensive cyber strategy and transformation roadmap development
• Development of cyber security policy and architecture standards
• Managing and driving mitigation of Departmental cyber risk
• Security assurance and accreditation support and advice to transformation programmes

With a fantastic growing team of military and civilian staff operating across the UK it is a great time to be a cyber security professional in the Ministry of Defence.

If you can see yourself contributing to the world of CyDR the next chapter of your career may be with us!

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The Assistant Head within Cyber & Supply Chain Security (CSCS) is responsible to the Deputy Head for ensuring:

• Leadership of operational and/or support teams in support of delivery of Defence Cyber Resilience Strategy workstreams.

• The co-ordination and delivery of MOD’s support of the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP).

• Project management of development, delivery and maintenance of supporting capability and tooling.

Our small, highly specialised team, within CyDR, is responsible for improving the cyber resilience and assurance of the Defence supply chain. Your knowledge and experience will provide expertise, to ensure the effective management of the support and operational elements of the unit.

As an experienced cyber security professional, you will bring a proven ability to communicate at a range of levels, within a diverse organisation. Thought leadership will be a key aspect of the role and you’ll need to demonstrate a talent for solving complex problems through innovation. You will have the ability to advise on cyber security policy, governance and technology to non-experts.

Our commitment to your development is fundamental at Defence Digital. We will provide as many learning opportunities as we can, allowing you to gain industry recognised qualifications, as well as in-house training within your field and beyond. We’ll support your continuous professional development within the role from day 1.

Joining Defence Digital enables you to take advantage of our excellent benefits package, including flexible working, great discount schemes, a generous leave allowance and a market-leading Civil Service pension.

Our team is growing. This is a fantastic time to join us and be part of our journey!

Lead the operations teams to:

• Deliver the MOD’s contribution to the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) and related programmes and initiatives.

• Deliver, maintain and develop CSCS processes and supporting tooling, including:

– project management activities

– input to and oversight of development and testing of new requirements

– oversight of data migration plans; ensuring all necessary documentation, assurance processes and authorities to operate are maintained

– monitoring support activities to ensure customer and user requirements are met; and

– ensuring plans for appropriate closedown activities are in place (e.g., destruction of data) following migration of data.

• Line manage CSCS team personnel to ensure workloads are balanced efficiently and resource issues are escalated to the SMT in a timely fashion, and that personnel are professional and motivated.

Lead the Support teams to:

• Support MOD/Industry executive/working groups, ensuring that such deliver against their Terms of Reference, objectives and deliverables.

• Liaise with stakeholders across MOD, Government and internationally to ensure that team security initiatives support, and benefit from, wider cyber security activities and deliver satisfactory and acceptable outcomes.

• Represent UKSTRATCOM / CyDR / Governance Risk & Compliance team interests at internal and external meetings as required.

As the CSCS team continues to grow, it is likely that the successful post-holder will be required to focus on leadership, within either the Operations or Support areas in due course.

If you have the following knowledge, skills and experience, we would love to hear from you!

Whilst not essential, it may be beneficial to have the following desirable industry qualifications or accreditation and experience or knowledge. Additional training, where required, is available:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certificate in Information Security Management (CISMP)
• Certified Cyber Professional (CCP)
• MSc, BSc or HND or equivalent in an ICT or Engineering related discipline
• PRINCE2 or MSP Practitioner.
• Desirable memberships: CIISec or BCS.
• Cyber security experience, covering governance and management, supply chain and cyber/information risk management.
• Programme/Project management experience.
• Experience or knowledge of ICT service or database design.
• Excellent communication skills, including presentations; and clear and accurate briefings to senior leaders.
• Excellent relationship-building ability, across multiple levels.
• The ability to quickly assess information and make recommendations.
• The ability to support a team and form effective partnerships across the organisation.
• Experience of leading and/or managing a team.

Location: This post can be based at Main Building, London, RAF Wyton, Huntingdon or MOD Corsham, Wiltshire.

Work location will be agreed once the successful candidate has been selected.

Dependent on the business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK, including overnight stays or potentially occasional overseas visits.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this).  If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

If not already held, successful candidates will be required to undergo DV clearance.

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

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

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

• Information risk assessment and risk management
• Threat understanding

• 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%
• Family Friendly – Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave.
• A wide range of discounts – Defence Discount Service, Civil Service societies for Sports and Leisure, Healthcare, Insurance, Motoring, company discounts with Virgin, Vodafone, and Microsoft Office.
• 5 days per year Learning & Development
• In year rewards and ‘thank you’ schemes.
• Flexible working.
• Generous leave allocations.
• Please see Benefits Leaflet for more detail

London

The job holder will lead the International Affairs Unit (IAU) and provide policy advice and support to the Prime Minister, National Security Adviser (NSA) and Deputy National Security Adviser (DNSA) covering the following regions and relationships: Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Europe and the European neighbourhood (including Russia/Ukraine), the US, and our Five Eyes partnerships.

The post-holder will play a key role on difficult/high-profile international issues particularly where the policy response needs to be developed, coordinated and/or implemented across a number of departments. This will include convening Whitehall at a senior level and preparing for relevant National Security Council and National Security Council Official discussions.

Crisis leadership is likely to be a key part of the role which will include delivering PM and NSA-chaired COBR meetings working closely with the COBR Unit and other relevant NSS teams.

The role requires significant cross-Whitehall working (particularly with No.10, the FCDO, MOD and agencies), the ability both to think strategically and lead on reactive issues, and broker agreements / find solutions with departments. There will be a premium on crystallising the key strategic policy questions for ministers and identifying where the HMG system as a whole needs to do further work and/or manage/mitigate risk.

For more information about the role and key responsibilities please view the attached Candidate Information Pack.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Broad-based international policy experience with expertise in one or more of the geographies;
• Experience of leading, operating and delivering at pace within a complex high pressured environment
• A proven ability of quickly securing the confidence of senior internal and external stakeholders to build and manage highly effective, influential and collaborative relationships across Government
• Experience of leading, managing and developing high performing, resilient teams in high pressure conditions, the ability to build ‘agile’ staff capability and;
• Experience of leading, formulating and implementing complex strategies, policies and programmes.

London

Extradition is the formal procedure for requesting the surrender of a person from one country to another for the purpose of prosecution, to be sentenced for an offence for which the person has already been convicted or to carry out a sentence which has already been imposed.
The National Extradition Unit comprises a team of officers with operational responsibility for the coordination and management of extradition related cases. The unit is made up of two hubs, one based in London and one in Warrington.

The unit:

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

There will be an expectation of a willingness to travel both nationally and internationally with a number of nights away when operationally necessary.

Office Hours: Core hours are between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday.  There will be a requirement to cover an on-call rota as the unit has 24/7 availability.  There is also a large degree of flexibility required including the ability to travel nationally and internationally at short notice.

Essential Criteria: 

• Sound knowledge of the management of intelligence products in line with the National Intelligence Model.
• Experience of applying for and working under covert authorities.
• Extensive knowledge of communications data.
• Operational surveillance experience – both static and technical.
• Experience of making sound risk assessments in line with the National Decision Making Model.
• Experience of intelligence work surrounding complex fugitive enquiries.
• Police response level driver.
• Experience of working with both internal and external partners.
• Hold a valid, up to date passport.
  
  

You will be part of the Intelligence & Operational Support Team which has two primary responsibilities:

• To provide intelligence support and specialist covert capabilities to extradition fugitive enquiries.
• Case review, allocation and management to both extradition ops teams and police forces across England and Wales.

You will lead of a team of both police and police staff intelligence officers.  It is expected you will be a source of expert advice across a broad range of specialist covert policing tactics.

You should have practical experience of both surveillance, the use of communications data and the management of applications under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2006.

The role requires the supervision of the receipt of intelligence from both UK and international partners ensuring appropriate dissemination, oversight and management in line with the principles of the National Intelligence Model.

You will take responsibility for the professional development of team members by guiding, coaching and securing relevant development and training opportunities to enhance individual and team competence and enable consistently high quality performance.

Your role will also require extensive liaison and networking across all police forces within England and Wales to drive activity around extradition cases allocated to them.

This role will involve shift work and unsociable hours at short notice including an on-call rota, therefore an element of flexibility is required.  Flexibility to travel both nationally and internationally, often at short notice, will also be required.

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

Work Involves:

• Review, allocation and management of extradition cases.
• Supervising and leading deployments under covert authorities.
• Providing expert advice and guidance to operational fugitive teams around the available covert tactics to support their investigations.
• Monitor staff compliance to relevant legislation.
• Provide sound advice and guidance in respect of intelligence development.
• Support and train team members on all aspects of intelligence development.
• Liaison with partner agencies including police forces, Crown Prosecution Service, Westminster Magistrates Court, Home Office and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
• Any other work in support of operational extradition functions as required.

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

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

• Knowledge and experience of the management of intelligence products in line with the National Intelligence Model.
• Experience of operational intelligence development under both the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2006.
• Experience of developing intelligence in support of complex fugitive enquiries.

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

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Government security is undergoing a step change, and now is an exciting time to get involved. The security profession has an increasingly important role to play in a more digital world – the vision is to create an energetic, forward-thinking and technically proficient profession for government that leads the way in balancing security risks with the delivery of cost-effective, high-quality services.

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The Defra Group Security function within DDTS is recruiting a Cyber Security Analyst to support senior management in delivering a robust security function capable of protecting Defra from a wide range of threats.

As a Cyber Security Analyst you will play a key role for assuring the security of IT changes, incidents, and IT Health Checks on behalf of Defra group. You will be providing advice and recommendations on application of policy, anticipating and evaluating risks to the group, taking the lead on decision making for security incidents and acting as a point of escalation for complex decisions from more junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide security assurance to the change management process, assessing changes to the IT estate to ensure that security risks are mitigated.
• Providing professional advice on the resolution of IT security incidents on behalf of the group – escalating actions and effectively seeking input from more senior IT security advisors where appropriate.
• Providing advice, guidance and recommendations to colleagues and external organisations, in line with relevant legislation and best practice, in order to effectively underpin risk-based judgement making.
• Provide guidance and advice to the vulnerability management process, identifying priorities, and proposing mitigations.
• Scope IT Health Checks alongside the business, engaging with suppliers, and managing remediations.

Skills and Experience

• Qualification in security assurance and IT, or equivalent experience and commitment to work towards qualification.
• Experience of cyber security analysis and assessment, including threat identification, risk assessment, evaluation of technical controls, and assessment against industry standards.
• Experience of engaging, advising and influencing at all levels of an organisation including senior managers and proven leadership skills in challenging and complex environments.
• The ability to analyse complex information to provide appropriate professional advice and guidance.
• Proven ability of performing effectively to deadlines, maintaining focus in challenging situations and adapting to find solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders.

Selection Process

The Civil Service marks each element of the selection process on a merit basis. Ensure you have tailored your CV and Personal Statement to the Person Specification section of the job advert above by providing examples on how you are suitable for the role using the STAR method. Visit the gov.uk website for further information on Success Profiles and the Civil Service rating scale.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete:

• A CV
• A 500-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 suitability statement.

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

Interview

If successful at sift stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed on the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed below:

The following Behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

The following Technical skills will be assessed at interview:

• Cyber Security
• Risk Assessment

Interviews are planned to begin on the w/c 1st May. Please note that these may be subject to change.

Interviews will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams.

London SW1A 1AA

It’s helping to protect one of the world’s most famous homes. It’s knowing that your work matters. And it’s delivering extraordinary service in incredible surroundings. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional.

The Access Control team provide an essential service, helping to protect a truly unique institution. Predominantly based at St. James’s Palace you’ll be the first point of contact for new employees, contractors and visitors – responsible for checking identification and issuing passes whilst providing a professional welcome Day-to-day you’ll also manage the Electronic Visitor Admission (EVA) system, carry out online security checks for every visitor in support of daily operations and events, oversee key control and process deliveries. In every interaction you’ll promote and support our culture of security awareness. As you learn our procedures and protocols, you’ll handle a range of questions, queries, and situations with initiative and good judgement – problem solving, and exceptional service provision will therefore become second nature.

With relevant experience in a similar role, you will be an excellent administrator with good IT skills, and a real eye for detail. With previous administration, customer service or reception experience, you’ll enjoy interacting with a wide range of people and be committed to high standards of service delivery.     Digitally fluent and with accurate data entry, you’ll quickly get to grips with bespoke database systems and use MS Office with ease.  You can maintain focus and attention to detail when processing large volumes of information. Organised in your approach, you’ll be adept at juggling a busy workload, and able to prioritise work to meet deadlines. Able to work independently, you’ll bring initiative and pro activity. And as you build your knowledge, you’ll apply judgement and sensitivity to make decisions and resolve problems as they arise.

Mandatory text: – This advertised role is not within the Civil Service or an accredited Non Departmental Public Body, as such your continuity of service may be affected if you apply and are successful. – This role does not include a option to apply for a Civil Service Pension as it is outside the Civil Service.

Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The DWP Cyber Resilience Centre (CRC) offers a uniquely challenging and fulfilling opportunity for people interested in making a genuine difference to society.

CRC is an innovative and responsive operation delivering a range of services to help DWP protect, monitor and respond to malicious behaviour or activity and threats to, or compromises of, financial and personal data assets.

DWP is the UK’s biggest government department; few other organisations globally provide the same opportunity to apply next-generation digital technology on a massive scale to issues with touch the lives of so many. We support more than 20 million people every day to help them find work and save for their future. We provide financial assistance worth over £200 billion each year to ensure that the most vulnerable in society are protected. With 800 locations and around 100,000 colleagues, we’re bigger than most retail operations.

The Vulnerability Assessment Team is part of the Cyber Resilience Centre (CRC). You will be part of a dynamic, innovative, delivery-oriented team that leads work to develop and implement new security capabilities and technologies in support of CRC and Departmental security objectives.

We operate within a challenging multi-stakeholder environment, engaging within internal customers, delivery teams and stakeholders, as well as with external third- party suppliers and other Government Departments to support the build and maturity of DWP’s security capabilities.

About the role:

Provisioning and conducting vulnerability assessments of large IT assets across the estate.

Your responsibilities will include:

Working with stakeholders to advise on scope and provision intelligence-led penetration tests, Red-Team exercises and targeted IT Health Checks to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise the DWP’s IT network.

Configuring and deploying vulnerability scanning and network security assessment tools across all environments, notably the continuous vulnerability management tooling optimising the scans to gain maximum value from the tool.

Reviewing and validating findings from vulnerability assessments and advising technical and non-technical audiences on the implications of identified vulnerabilities, assisting in the prioritisation of those vulnerabilities.

Assisting stakeholders in understanding the technical vulnerability information provided.

Providing customised reports, data and information on technical vulnerabilities to stakeholders in the first and second line.

Tracking remediation activities affecting on-premise and Cloud-hosted environments, escalating any issues of concern as necessary.

Collaborating with stakeholders to input into tactical and strategic plans relating to manage technical vulnerabilities.

Acting as a subject matter expert for vulnerability assessments, leading the development, critique and continuous improvement of the Vulnerability Assessment Service

Understanding the DWP, its infrastructure and applications, the vulnerabilities on its systems and how these might be exploited by a hostile third party.

Keeping up to date with latest vulnerability trends and news and appropriately responding to these emerging vulnerabilities.

We welcome applications from candidates who are enthusiastic, self-motivated and welcome the opportunity to contribute to securing DWP.

Essential Criteria:

Significant experience of vulnerability management, including prioritising vulnerabilities, taking into account network architecture, threats and potential business impacts.

Experience of analysing multiple sources of vulnerability information / findings to understand the vulnerability landscape of the Department, assisting stakeholders in understanding the associated risk, prioritising remediation action and influencing security strategy and roadmaps.

Experience of working with internal stakeholders and commercial third parties to identify, scope, and specify business and technical vulnerability management requirements.

Experience of managing a team, preferably in an Information Security environment.

Familiarity with the NIST Cyber Security Framework

Desirable:

Recognised information security qualifications, such as GSEC, CISSP, CISM, MSc in Information Security; NIST CSF Practitioner

National Security Vetting

Applicants must have, or be willing to undergo, appropriate security clearance up to Security Check (SC) prior to taking up duty.

Some travel may be required, but individuals’ circumstances will be taken into account

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

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

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

• Application of the NIST Cyber Security Framework in respect of vulnerability management

• 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%
• Generous holiday allowance of 23 or 25 days for new starters (dependent on grade) based on full-time work pattern, which increases to 30 days over time, in addition to public/bank holidays.

This 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.