Home Office Intelligence

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

- 308792**Salary**:

- £28,000 - £29,400- AHW of approximately between 16 - 20% is applicable on this role (see Further information for more details)- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Folkestone - Frontier HouseAbout 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 include operational and non-operational staff who develop intelligence products to protect vulnerable people and communities while reducing the illegal population and the harm that it causes.

Due to the nature of this role we can only offer full time working pattern. We are unable to consider any other working pattern at this time.

This role has a uniform which will sometimes be required to be worn.

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**:

- Proactively gathering, assessing, 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 and sources of intelligence to develop high quality intelligence products for enforcement teams and criminal investigations.
- Undertaking field visits to develop intelligence by visiting employers and stakeholders.
- Provide 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.

**Essential criteria**
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Experience of building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment, developing innovative solutions to support business needs.

**Desirable criteria**
- Experience of working in an intelligence team and or/law enforcement environment.
- Forgery detection experience.
- Researching and 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:

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

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £28,000, Home Office contributes £7,560 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- 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 right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
- A statement of suitability (personal statement) (maximum 750 words)
- Provide evidence of the lead behaviour Leadership (250 words maximum)

The statement of suitability should be aligned to demonstrate your skills and experience for the role and how you meet the Essential criteria as detailed in the job advertisement.

For guidance on how to construct your personal statement, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Care