Joint Intelligence Organisation

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

- 304403**Salary**:

- £41,412 - £44,767- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- You will be expected to join on a two-year loan/secondment if you are a Civil/Crown Servant. If external, you will join permanently once passing an initial probation period.**Business area**:

- CO - Joint Intelligence Organisation - CO - Joint Intelligence Organisation**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Intelligence**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Whitehall, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) leads the Intelligence Analysis Profession across government, providing a central function to drive coherence, collaboration and capability development. PHIA is supported by a team that sits within the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) and has a broad remit covering analytical tradecraft/standards, community collaboration, and analyst career pathways.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously on multiple projects, and with a passion for improving the future of the intelligence analysis profession.

**Job description**:
**About the JIO**

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and the National Security Council, the Prime Minister and other key decision-makers by providing authoritative, robust all-source intelligence assessment on a vast range of national security and foreign policy priorities.

You can read more about working for the JIO in the information pack attached at the bottom of this advert.

The Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) is supported by teams to define and maintain standards across the whole assessment community in the UK.

The PHIA Senior Professionalisation Officer role exists to lead projects across the Intelligence Analysis profession. These projects are designed to continually improve professional standards and outputs of analysts from numerous organisations with an intelligence assessment focus in the UK. Working flexibly, the incumbent will lead on a variety of different work strands in support of the profession, managing the delivery of the projects and shaping them to the needs of the wider Intelligence Assessment community.

**Person specification**:
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with strong communication skills to help support the development of the Intelligence Analysis profession across HM Government.

The job holder will be expected to:

- Lead workstreams on behalf of the Intelligence Analysis profession, including the development of our Professional Development Framework;
- Identify and deliver projects that will positively impact the development of the Intelligence Analysis community;
- Regularly engage with senior leaders across government.;
- Deputise for relevant senior members of the Professionalisation team, and undertake other duties as relevant.
- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal - to be able to brief and advise senior officials across the national security community;
- Well-established resilience and flexibility to work in a fast-moving and unpredictable environment, particularly during national security crisis events;
- Strong organisational skills;
- Good project management skills to be able to support multiple programme work streams simultaneously;
- Proven ability to work in a team, drawing on specific strengths, knowledge and expertise of others to solve problems and achieve consensus;
- Innovation and creative-thinking skills to overcome complex challenges;
- Proven ability to build and develop strong and trusting relationships at a senior working level on behalf of the JIO and wider Cabinet Office.
- Experience of working on or around Intelligence Assessment and/or National Security.
- Previous experience of working on HR / people-related issues (e.g. Talent, Diversity & Inclusion, Workforce Planning, business management, etc.)
- Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) accredited training / qualifications.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £41,412, Cabinet Office contributes £11,181 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Annual salary increases will depend upon individual performance and contribution to the organisation’s success. In addition, there will be the opportunity to earn performance related bonuses.

**Flexible