Counter-intelligence Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 257258**Salary**:

- £26,350**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- D**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Navy**Type of role**:

- Intelligence
- Security**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- HMNB Clyde (Faslane)About the job

**Job summary**:
His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde (HMNB Clyde) is home to the United Kingdom’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Astute Class Attack Submarines, Sandown Class Mine Hunter Vessels and 43 Commando Royal Marines. It is an operational support and maintenance Naval Base within Navy Command and comprises both Faslane and Coulport sites.

HMNB Clyde’s primary purpose is to provide engineering and logístical support to the Royal Navy in maintaining Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD). This is achieved by ensuring at least one Vanguard Class submarine is on patrol at sea every day of the year.

Royal Navy Armaments Depot Coulport (RNAD Coulport) is responsible for the storage, processing, maintenance and issue of the Trident Weapon System and the ammunitioning of all submarine-embarked tactical weapons.

HMNB Clyde will be the single operational home of the Submarine Service from 2020 and will become the United Kingdom’s Submarine Centre of Excellence. Creating this single integrated operating base is to ensure that the Royal Navy is able to deliver its operational commitments across all Defence Lines of Development from Scotland on an enduring basis.

This transition will provide an excellent opportunity for commencing and developing an exciting and challenging career within the Ministry of Defence and Civil Service.

The HMNB Clyde Security Organisation (CSyO) is responsible for the Force Protection measures that protect both Faslane and Coulport sites from a wide range of threats against the establishments and their outputs, including the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, SSBN and SSN submarine programmes, and the Nuclear Weapon programme.

An established part of this organisation is the Counter Intelligence (CI) Section. A rare opportunity has come available to join the Section as a CI Officer, a position which has responsibility for identifying and counteracting the threat to security at HMNB Clyde posed by hostile intelligence services or by individuals or organisations engaged in terrorism, espionage, sabotage, subversion or serious and organised crime. An additional key effort of the CI operation is to deter, detect, disrupt and exploit Insider Threat activity.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week (full time). The post does not offer relocation expenses.

**Job description**:
Assessing incoming reporting and intelligence and initiating casework for further investigation, research or development;
Working closely with the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC), Defence CI units and other Law Enforcement Agencies across the UK;
Undertake CI investigation interviews, security screening interviews and de-briefs of Naval Base personnel;
Utilise investigative skills and make well-judged decisions based upon complex information using a variety of sources and databases;
Undertake Open Source Intelligence Research (OSINT) activity to understand the threat and conduct OSINT enquiries in support of CI investigations;
Delivering face to face threat assessment briefings at intelligence meetings and through partnership working to increase the secure flow of information;
Maintain current situational awareness of local, regional and national threats through regular monitoring of intelligence feeds;
Support a CI Estimate process to inform the Naval Base Commander of currents threats within the Area of Operations;
Support the delivery of an Insider Threat detection, prevention and mitigation programme;
Informing Naval Base staff and Site Security Force personnel of current threat activity via Security Education Training and Threat Briefs and advising CSyO colleagues on methods to counteract the threat and how this can be achieved;
Support HMNB Clyde’s threat-informed operational response to CI and/or security events, or requests for advice on current security threats.

**Person specification**:
**Required Knowledge and Experience**:
Ability to operate in a mixed military-civilian environment;
Desirable knowledge of current threats to UK Defence and experience of conducting investigations and providing threat awareness briefings;
Knowledge of intelligence analysis and assessment tools and interview techniques and strategies; Understanding of MOD and wider Government;
Experience in producing and delivering briefings to inform Seniors

Previous experience of working within either an Intelligence, CI or Personnel Security casework role;
Excellent oral and written communications skills and strong interpersonal and organisational skills;
Proven ability to develop good working relationships with a variety of internal and