Intelligence Researcher

Division / Department - Specialist Crime Grade - Grade 8 Status - Full Time Contract Type - Permanent Salary Grade Range - £26,487 - £28,302 Working Hours - 37.0 Hours per Week Shift Allowance - No Politically Restricted - Yes Location - Eastbourne, Hammonds Drive The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.

Chief Constables' Message

The Role & Key Responsibilities

**The Role**

From your first day with us you will be part of a policing family making a real difference.

It is our mission to identify and protect vulnerable people, prevent and respond to harm and keep people Safe.

The threats facing Surrey and Sussex are constantly evolving, and offenders continually find new ways of committing crime. The information needed to confront these risks is not always evident. That’s why we need Intelligence Researchers to help identify and understand what’s going on and direct our response to some of the most complex and high profile cases in our counties.

Intelligence Researchers form a key part of the intelligence function. You’ll identify, interrogate, and assess information from a range of covert and overt information sources. As a specialist IT user you will routinely access data from a variety of police systems and databases. You will have to ask insightful questions to get to the heart of a problem. You will search multiple databases and data sources to quickly find, identify, and then summarise relevant information. You will assist in collating evolving intelligence and evidence on crimes and criminals. You will rapidly have to get to grips with complex and technical problems, explain your thinking, and come up with creative solutions to help tackle crime.

You will be working on a variety of critical, strategic, and high risk incidents. At times you will be under pressure to work at speed to build a big picture from small pieces of intelligence and threads of data. You will be flexible and creative, and able to communicate your findings to front-line staff and chief officers. Your attention to detail will be crucial in making people safe and locking up criminals.

The role being advertised is for a full time Intelligence Researcher to work within the East Sussex team based at Hammonds Drive in Eastbourne.

**Key Responsibilities**

Intelligence Researchers develop and provide intelligence products that support officers and staff in effective decision making around critical incidents and complex problems. This is crucial when policing is being asked to do more with less, and where accurate information needs to reach the right people quickly. The context will vary according to the specific role, ranging from volume to organised crime, counter-terrorism, homicide and other serious crime and strategic issues.

The post-holder must take personal responsibility for their actions and for resolving issues or problems that arise, being focused on achieving high quality results and developing skills and knowledge.

Please note that due to the nature of this job, there will be times you may be exposed to investigations of a distressing nature.

Skills & Experience
- A levels or equivalent qualification, or with proven and well evidenced experience of crime/intelligence research in a relevant field;
- Excellent IT and computer skills including the ability to learn bespoke systems and use these to search for and identify relevant data records.
- Previous experience of researching, assimilating and making sense of relevant information from a range of open and closed information sources. This includes the ability to identify potential risks, make links between information, and identify similarities and discrepancies within information.
- Well-developed communication skills both written and verbal, and the ability to present appropriately to groups or individuals, including senior managers and partner agencies;
- The ability to plan ahead, to manage and prioritise their workload unsupervised and respond flexibly to rapidly changing demands;
- A flexible approach towards achieving team objectives and a willingness to undertake a wide range of duties with the ability to work calmly and effectively, especially under pressure.

Why Work With Us?

Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We’re invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working. We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits;
- career progression - contributory pension scheme (LGPS) - generous annual leave allowance - discounts for everyday spend - on-site gyms and a range of sports c