**NP Policy Adviser
Home Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 20th November 2024
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London pay locations: Westminster £41,300 - £44,191
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Job summary
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
The Public Safety Group’s role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services. We work with our partners in other government departments, local government and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Unit (TCSAU), which sits within the Tackling Exploitation and Abuse Directorate in Public Safety Group. TCSAU is responsible for leading the Government’s response to child sexual abuse, with a remit that cuts across serious and organised crime, law enforcement, national security and social policy. The work of the unit is high-profile, and it is a supportive, empowering and collaborative unit to work in.
There is one vacancy in TCSAU’s Online Pursue and Prevent Team and another in the unit’s Strategy and International Team. The roles are suited to individuals with experience or an interest in developing policy, who have strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrable experience building and maintaining relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
Job description
Online Pursue and Prevent Team
This team is focussed on bringing more offenders to justice by ensuring that law enforcement have the intelligence, powers and capabilities required to identify, respond to and prevent child sexual abuse from happening in the first place.
The role holder will support the development and delivery of policing policy to best tackle this ever growing and evolving online threat, optimising the law enforcement response for both victims and justice. From digital forensics and cloud capabilities to artificial intelligence and the dark web, legislation has struggled to keep up with the way the internet is used by the police, offenders, and children and young people. Partnering closely with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the role holder will play a pivotal role in improving the investigative, technological, and legal handling of online child sexual abuse cases and introducing innovative solutions to emerging issues in a complex, contentious, and high-profile environment.
Strategy and International Team
The work of this team spans oversight and governance relating to strategic cross-government activities and our whole of system response to tackle child sexual abuse; early intervention and prevention work; sponsorship of the independent Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse; and international leadership and stakeholder engagement, including through the UN, Council of Europe, Five Country and G7 forums and with civil society organisations. The role holder will be placed in the Strategy and Early Intervention Team and will support TCSAU’s early intervention and prevention work, which includes education resources, harmful sexual behaviour and sponsorship of the Prevention Programme.
Key responsibilities
The above roles will give the post holders the opportunity to experience the work of implementing a top government policy priority, working in a sensitive and often fast-paced environment to deliver across government and through and with external stakeholders to:
• Developing policy, leading on key deliverables and influencing the delivery of policy and projects through others.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across police, law enforcement, civil society and academia, among others.
• Providing advice to ministers and working across government to deliver on key priorities.
• Maintaining core briefs and press lines, ensuring they are up to date across the unit, and responding to correspondence and requests for input to speeches, briefings and other documents relating to work within your policy area.
• Engaging with stakeholders through multiple forums and representing UK government interests at various events.
Please note that the list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder will need to be flexible in light of changing Ministerial priorities.
In addition, the post holder will be expected to work flexibly and may be asked to provide support on wider Group priorities as needed.
Occasional travel may be required to attend meetings and other stakeholder engagements. The cost associated with any travel will be met by the business area in line with HO policy.
Person specification
Essential criteria
The successful candidates will need to be able to demonstrate:
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including written, oral and interpersonal communication. Confident engaging stakeholders and able to hold challenging conversations where necessary.
• Experience of working in a changing, fast paced environment, planning and collaborating to meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to build productive working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including more senior colleagues, to form effective partnerships
• Strong organisational and project management skills, able to hold partners to account with a good attention to detail.
Desirable criteria
• Experience developing policy in high profile areas
• Knowledge and understanding of child protection systems and/ or experience working in frontline children’s services
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
- 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
- Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day
- Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
- See more of our benefits on our careers website.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.
Application – by 20th November 2024
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
- CV detailing job history.
- Personal Statement (maximum 750 words).
- Evidence of the Behaviour Delivering at Pace (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour).
Your CV should consist of your career history, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be used to provide further context on your personal statement and scored against the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
Sift – commencing 22nd November 2024
The sift will be held on the CV, Personal Statement and Behaviour Delivering at Pace.
Should a high volume of applications be received, the sift will be conducted only on the Lead behaviour Delivering at Pace.
Interview – week commencing 16th December 2024
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be:
- Behaviours (as listed in the job advert)
- Strength based questions.
The interview will take place remotely on Microsoft Teams.
For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.
Problems during the application process
If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.
Location Preferences
You can select up to two locations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred locations and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.
Candidates judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised without the need to go through a further selection process, providing the role has the same Success Profiles elements and essential skills. There is no guarantee that further such vacancies will arise.
Standards
All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Additional Security Checks
As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.
Further information
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.
If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
If you are invited to an interview, you will be required to bring documentation for the purposes of establishing your identity.
You will need to meet the nationality requirements for this role and obtain the necessary security clearance to take it up.
For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Visa sponsorship
We do not sponsor individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas.
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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- Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
- Email : HORCCampaignTeamHSGPSGandMBG@homeoffice.gov.uk
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- Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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HORecruitment.GRS@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.
