Business Assurance Officer

2 weeks ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) Full time

A part time opportunity, working up to three full days each week, has become available for a Business Assurance Officer to join the Security and Compliance Team, working within CTPSE.


As a Business Assurance Officer, you will be responsible for testing the risk, efficiency, effectiveness and compliance of CT policies, procedures, systems and protocols in order to provide independent/objective assurance to the Head of CTPSE and the CT Network National Headquarters.


Developing our talent is important to us and there are a number of courses to be completed as part of the training for this position.


Please note that this role is part of a national, regional and local network and as a result, you may be required to travel for business purposes mainly across the south east region and occasionally throughout the UK.


Responsibilities:

  • Provide assurance on behalf of the CT Head, that Policies and procedures are consistently applied (National Standards for Intelligence Management (NSIM), Intelligence Handling Mode (IHM), access and visibility, Review, Retain, Delete (RRD) etc.), and local mechanisms are in place to continually monitor compliance by conducting monthly peer reviews of decision making and associated rationales ensuring that the correct outcome is determined and recorded.
  • Provide advice and guidance on the use of Intelligence systems to peers, including the communicating of upgrades and enhancements to users in a timely manner. Where required, create, maintain and update Groups, User Management and Operations on Intelligence Systems to ensure creation and security compliance.
  • Conduct peer reviews of decisionmaking and associated rationale to ensure that outcomes are appropriate and recorded with sufficient detail by the users.
  • Ensure relevancy and accuracy of data on the Intelligence System and ensure user details correct, overseeing the administration of systems access including assisting the administrator and users with technical enquiries. Where required, provide cover for the administrator. Perform deduplication process in order to resolve Intelligence Systems entities and intelligence identified as duplicates and ensure Intelligence Systems data is current.
  • Liaising with Regional Practitioner Group (RPG)/National Practitioner Group (NPG) (CTPHQ), use your knowledge and experience to identify nonhardware, process faults and errors within the intelligence system. Act as the liaison point with users where they establish issues with the intelligence system, particularly following upgrades. Work with all key stakeholders to find a resolution.
  • Undertake audits of secure intelligence systems via the audit log to ensure the compliant and correct use of the system. This includes working with National Audit Team (CTPHQ) to develop audit requirements and assisting in the delivery of reviews.
  • Maintain knowledge and understanding of the secure intelligence systems by attending seminars and user group meetings and passing on relevant information to users to ensure that there is continued professional development within the region.

Required knowledge/skills:

Essential:

  • Able to assimilate information quickly and formulate solutions, making concise and accurate recommendations based on assessments. Ability to produce work to a high standard and communicate findings succinctly in suitable written formats or verbally.
  • Recent experience of carrying out duties that involve dealing with various levels of collation, recording, analysis and disseminating of information.
  • Recent significant experience of assessing information and assuring compliance with set standards, with excellent attention to detail.
  • Proven interpersonal skills and the ability to promote professional working relationships with personnel at all levels of the organisation. Ability to operate in a demanding environment demonstrating discretion, tact, diplomacy and flexibility.
  • Able to work effectively within a team, with the ability to plan and organise workload to meet tight deadlines using own initiative.
  • IT literate with experience in MS Applications (Proficient use of Excel & Outlook); proven ability to manipulate data from a variety of sources and databases and willing and able to learn new technology, databases and systems.
  • Although required only occasionally, must have capability to travel to different locations force wide as well nationally within the CT network and be flexible with working hours where required. Due to the requirement to work flexibly, unsocial hours and personal safety for lone working; public transport may not be available or suitable at these times. For this reason a full UK driving licence is considered essential*Desirable:
  • Thorough understanding of Intelligence dissemination and assessment processes within the CT/DE Network (Training provided)
  • A good working knowledge of national rules and conventions in relation to secure intelligence systems (Training provided)
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