Intelligence Researcher

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

- 374827**Salary**:

- £31,644 - £33,319- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- HMPPS Band 3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Intelligence**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- These positions are based at 102 Petty France (MOJ) London, SW1H 9AJAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Job description**:
This post is a secondment from HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to the Joint Counter-Terrorism Prisons and Probation Hub (JCTPPH) Assessments team. The Joint Counter Terrorism Prison and Probation Hub (JCTPPH) Assessments team is multi-agency, they deliver assessments related to prison and probation CT threats, enhancing the national analytical activity between partner organisations and across wider government. These roles will support the production of joint, all source intelligence products.

The Assessments team is responsible for helping our customers understand individuals and themes involved within extremism and counter terrorism and to aid their decision making. This includes helping to develop supporting knowledge or understanding of risks and threats. This includes a mixture of regular and ad hoc tasks which helps to keep the job varied and interesting. There is also an onus on to continually develop knowledge which requires a passion for continuous learning, you will have the opportunity to develop related knowledge. The teams tasking requests are from a range of National Security stakeholders, these will sometimes result in the production of specific pieces of work which include a blend of research and analysis, team members work closely together to develop them. There are also larger scale scheduled products that are created weekly, quarterly or annually which the team come together to produce.

Roles in JCTPPH will also require additional top up vetting.

**Overview of the job**
- The Researcher will support the Intelligence Analysts in developing the intelligence picture on a range of threats and risks impacting on their geographic or thematic area. Intelligence assessments will look across prison and probation contexts at 'high priority' offenders, offending groups and operational security vulnerabilities in their area.
- The post holder will obtain, evaluate, prepare and supply information for the Intelligence Analysts, in line with priorities for the Intelligence Unit. They will also disseminate the intelligence product in compliance with relevant legislation, codes of practice, standards, procedures and guidelines.
- The post holder will report to an Intelligence Analyst in the Units. The post is a flexible resource within the function and the post holder may be asked to undertake work for another Unit to respond to changes in priorities.
- This post is based in a regional Hub of the Security, Order and Counter Terrorism Directorate. Whilst the post has a 'base', occasional travel to HMPPS headquarters, prison establishments, prison regional offices and National Probation Service Division offices as well as law enforcement partners' offices may be required.

**Summary**
- This is a key support role in the intelligence analytical function. The post holder will be expected to provide high quality intelligence research to the Intelligence Analysts.
- The post holder will need to obtain and work with large volumes of information in both written and numeric form, some of which will be held in bespoke databases. They should be confident in organising information, using software where appropriate to do this. They will also require strong numerical and written skills and an eye for detail so that information is presented accurately.
- The post holder will need to build productive relationships with a range of internal and external partners in order to obtain relevant information when it is needed and manage and respond to expectations of intelligence customers.
- The post holder will also require strong administrative skills and the ability to manage and prioritise their own workload.
- The post has no operational requirement. However an understanding of prisons, probation and/or law enforcement operating environment would be an advantage.
- The post holder must act with the highest levels of personal and professional integrity and champion these qualities in others. They must be vetted to Security Check (SC) standards.

**Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

- Obtain and evaluate information relevant to intelligence questions from a range of sources, in line with a collection plan agreed with the Intelligence Analyst. This may include, for example: interrogating HMPPS' databases (e.g. Delius, NOMIS, OaSys, Mercury in