Joint Intelligence Organisation

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

- 243802**Salary**:

- £35,241 - £39,352**Job grade**:

- Higher 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**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Intelligence
- Operational Delivery**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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Location
- Whitehall, LondonAbout the job

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

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and the Foreign Policy and 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 Role**

You should have strong communication skills, both written and oral, to fulfil this role.

**Responsibilities**
- Prepare and issue JIO and JIC assessments to a high level of quality and security assurance, ensuring products reach customers (both via electronic means and hard-copy) in a timely, secure and impactful manner.
- Fulfil a planning function within the team and wider organisation managing workflows and liaising with assessment staff and Private Office to ensure products meet customers requirements and achieve their intended impact with Whitehall’s most senior customers.
- Provide quality and security assurance as a part of the assessment-production process, securing necessary approvals from equity owners.
- Support the Head of Domestic Delivery and Impact, as well as the Publishing Manager to ensure JIO maintains an up-to-date understanding of key Whitehall customers and senior readers
- Play an integral role in ensuring the successful delivery of JIO Assessment to Whitehall’s most senior readers.
- Have the opportunity for line management responsibilities.

**Person specification**:

- Be adaptable and enjoy working in a fast-paced, stimulating environment.
- Have excellent written and oral communication skills, with strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately.
- Be able to effectively manage competing priorities and find solutions to problems under pressure.
- Be an excellent team player.
- Have an aptitude for IT, including experience working with MS Office suite (particularly Outlook and Word).
- Have an interest in intelligence, foreign policy or national security issues.

**Desirable Skills**
- Previous experience of supporting senior officials in a national security context.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:
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.

Existing civil servants can take up the post on loan from their parent department for the duration advertised (permission from their parent department would need to be secured in order to take up the post). Those joining on level transfer will retain their current salary. Staff joining on promotion terms will receive up to a 10% increase of their current basic salary or the pay band minimum whichever is the greater. Staff joining on promotion will adopt the modernised terms and conditions of employment which came into force in 2013.

**Flexible Working**: Flexible working including job-share arrangements may be considered for this role.

**Leave allowances**: 25 days' paid leave per annum rising to 30 days after five years' service. In addition, full-time staff receive eight public holidays and the Queen’s Birthday privilege day as well as competitive maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave.

**Probation**: Staff new to the Civil Service will be required to serve a six month probationary period.

**Location**: The post will be based in Westminster, London. No relocation costs will be available.

**Crisis working**: As the JIO and PHIA are at the heart of national security function for the UK, there are occasionally times where we need to respond to incidents of crisis or critical importance. Staff in any role may be asked to work extended or anti-social hours with little or no notice on such occasions.

**Equality and Diversity**: The Cabinet Office is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all staff. We will not discriminate on grounds of gender, gender identity, race, disabili