Home Office Intelligence

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

- 327894**Salary**:

- £28,000 - £29,400- AHW of up to 19.83% is applicable on this role (see further information for more details).**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Immigration Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Immigration Enforcement - HO Intel - Immigration Enforcement**Type of role**:

- Intelligence**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Part-time, Shift Working**Number of jobs available**:

- 7Contents

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**Benefits**:
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- The Capital - Liverpool, Soapworks - ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- 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.**Job description**:
The Operational Intelligence Units (OIUs) are part of Home Office Intelligence. OIUs are building capability to proactively gather intelligence and develop thematic intelligence campaigns, leading to operational activity that has a significant impact on immigration abuse within our geographical remit.

The OIUs are responsible for the proactive collection of information concerning immigration abuse and the assessment of new information/intelligence received, in line with local, regional and national priorities. Intelligence gathered is turned into operational packages for disruption, (for example by enforcement teams) as well as developed into campaigns to disrupt thematic immigration abuse.

We have 5 vacancies within the Greater Manchester Operational Intelligence Unit (OIU) and 2 vacancies within the Merseyside OIU for proactive, engaging individuals with drive and enthusiasm. The role will offer the opportunity for them to develop intelligence skills and to interact with a variety of internal and external partners

**Responsibilities**

Duties include but are not limited to:

- Proactively gathering, researching, developing and disseminating intelligence in the appropriate format.
- Actively seeking to develop relationships with both internal and external business partners in order to identify new work streams/sources of intelligence to develop high quality intelligence products for enforcement teams and criminal investigations.
- Proactively undertaking field visits to develop intelligence by visiting employers and stakeholders.
- Providing intelligence support to the Immigration Compliance Enforcement (ICE) teams deployed in the field, actively participating in operational visits in order to direct the gathering of intelligence.
- Filling Intelligence gaps in line with tasking, undertaking debriefing of individuals where necessary and engaging with sources to identify and refer covert human intelligence opportunities.
- Focusing on generating and developing regional campaign activity as directed by the Field Intelligence Manager and in adherence with standard operating procedure (SOP) instructions.

**Training**

**Personal Safety Training**

As these are warranted roles with the powers of arrest, it is an essential requirement to complete the requisite training and the roles are conditional on passing a mandatory training programme, which will include a health fitness assessment, Enforcement training (4-week course) and Arrest training (2-week course). Other additional training focusing on the intelligence aspect of the role will also be provided.

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills.
- The ability to analyse and present information to a high standard.
- Experience of building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
- The ability to perform in a fast paced environment.
- A good working knowledge of IT for example Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

**Desirable criteria**
- Experience of working in an intelligence and or/law enforcement environment.
- Intelligence/investigation experience.
- Forgery detection.
- Researching/analysing data to draw key conclusions.

**Licences**:

- Full valid UK manual driving licence**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:

- 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%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.This gives us the best possible chance of finding the rig