JICC Policing and Partner Engagement Unit
National Crime Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 27th October 2024
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Job summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the Policing and Partner Engagement Unit (PPEU), a national police team working within the JICC, whose aim is to support frontline policing, wider law enforcement and international law enforcement partners, in the use of international tools and channels.
Following a 4P approach (Prevent, Protect, Prepare and Pursue), your role in the JICC will enable police investigators to detect, deter, prevent and prosecute international criminality, leveraging capability from across the spectrum of UK and international law enforcement. Working within the JICC will engage national and international law enforcement partners and will require the role holder to apply their problem solving skills to enable continuous improvement across policing. The role will also involve novel and ongoing capability and capacity building, providing real-time investigative advice, as well working with partners to safeguard individuals and the wider public from the threats posed by international crime.
Job description
The Joint International Crime Centre (JICC) is the focal point for all International enquiries both into and out of the UK supporting national and international policing partners via the channels of INTERPOL and Europol.
In addition, the JICC is the UK Central Authority for the UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TACA) focusing on locating fugitives in the UK and abroad for extradition. The JICC also work closely with the NCA International Liaison Officer (ILO) network and the Foreign Law Enforcement Community (FLEC).
The JICC is a high volume, high risk environment. Working at a national and international level, the JICC is a demanding, fast-paced and interesting place to work, were every day is different and presents new challenges.
Please note: Requirement to travel within or outside the UK – such travel may also include attendance at conferences or seminars for the purpose of updating and maintaining your own professional skills
***To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role***
Person specification
What the Role Involves:
- Responsibility for developing the unit’s strategic vision, managing an evolving team and delivering the Unit’s objectives
- Line management of the officers and staff within the JICC (can include geographically dispersed officers across England & Wales)
- Providing co-ordination and prioritisation of resources, ensuring appropriate support and a risk-based approach is given to the enquiries received by the team
- Identifying opportunities in which the unit can improve its service and recommending/implementing change
- Working collaboratively with stakeholders, such as the Home Office, NCA, ACRO, CPS and all other operational partners to deliver international crime-focused initiatives and national investigative/intelligence enhancement activities
- Providing advice and guidance to key internal and external stakeholders as well as Senior Leaders
- Delivering inputs and presentations to internal and external stakeholders
- Prioritising multiple demands, considerate of risk and unit priorities
- Monitor performance and collate information for Senior Officers
- Any other responsibilities commensurate with a G3 role within the JICC
Positions available & Eligibility:
This role is a closed competition and to apply you need to be:
- Substantive Police Inspector/Detective Inspector on a lateral basis
- A police officer at the rank of Sergeant, on temporary promotion and with relevant experience to the role
- Police Staff manager, or supervisor on temporary promotion and with relevant experience to the role
Any applications from candidates not meeting this eligibility criteria will not progress.
We are not accepting applications from Civil Servants
Essential Criteria:
- Experience identifying, assessing and prioritising a variety of information to inform decision making
- Experience of working with external stakeholders/other agencies
- Has a sound understanding of policing priorities, the strategic and operational environment, including factors such as threat, risk and harm
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to prepare high quality written material at a senior level
- Has experience managing a team, to achieve unit objectives
- Highly self-motivated and ability to work unsupervised
Desirable Criteria:
- An understanding of the challenges facing international policing
- Knowledge of international tools and processes
- An understanding of the National Police landscape, including how police engage and interact with other agencies, partners and stakeholders – i.e. NPCC, Home Office, ROCUs and police forces in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Qualifications
Experience identifying, assessing and prioritising a variety of information to inform decision making
Experience of working with external stakeholders/other agencies
Has a sound understanding of policing priorities, the strategic and operational environment, including factors such as threat, risk and harm
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to prepare high quality written material at a senior level
Has experience managing a team, to achieve unit objectives
Highly self-motivated and ability to work unsupervised
Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Working knowledge of criminal law and legislation affecting international law enforcement activity.
- Risk management skills
- Experience of drafting/report writing and presentation skills
Benefits
Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.
If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.
All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:
- Civil Service pension scheme
- 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
- Training and development opportunities
- Cycle2work scheme
We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.
We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).
Things you need to know
Selection process details
If you wish to apply for this vacancy, you must submit your application by 23:55 on Sunday 27th October 2024.
Sift Process
You will be asked to complete a CV as part of the application process. Your CV should set out your career history including training and qualifications, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure that each entry of your career history also has a few sentences outlining a description and the key elements of that role, and that you provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years. Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on are entered onto the CV.
- CV - Your CV is for reference only, and will not be scored.
- 3 x Technical / Experience skills via a 250 word Statement of Suitability per criteria as stated in the Person Specification above.
For further application guidance please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers/applying-and-onboarding
Once submitted your application will be acknowledged by the Government Recruitment Service.
Please note depending on the volume of applications a Longlist at sift may be conducted on following criteria:
- Working knowledge of criminal law and legislation affecting international law enforcement activity.
Candidates must pass this criteria for their application to be progressed.
A panel will then assess your application to select those demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence you have provided against the criteria set out in the Entry Criteria section.
Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.
Sift results are expected to be released w/c Monday 18th November 2024.
Interview Details
You will then be asked to attend an interview in order to have a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence.
The interview will be 1 round, and will consist of Behaviour and Technical competency questions.
Interviews will take place throughout December 2024 - locations to be confirmed. Please be advised that the type of interview (eg. virtual/face-to-face) may be subject to change and successful candidates will be notified of this prior to attending. However the interview is conducted, the interview criteria will remain as detailed within this advert.
The above sift and interview dates are an indicative timeline.
Should you be successful at sift but cannot attend on the interview date(s) listed the recruitment team cannot guarantee an alternative date. Please contact the recruitment team.
Full details of the assessment process will be made available to shortlisted candidates.
Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Any instances of plagiarism including copying of examples/answers from internet sources will result in a withdrawal of your application. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.
Interview Outcome
Candidates will be alerted of the outcome of their interview via their CS Jobs Portal. We will be retaining a candidate pool of successful applicants to draw from as vacancies arise for up to 12 months.
If your application is successful and we are unable to offer you a post immediately, you will be invited to join our reserve list. If over the next 12 months we are able to offer you a position, we will contact you as soon as possible.
Once we make you an offer you will then go through our vetting and pre-employment checks processes.
All Appointments will be made in location merit order.
The NCA is a law enforcement agency & as such we are part of the Criminal Justice System. Therefore if you are going into an operational role we need to be aware if any of our officers have, either before they join us or afterwards, any of the following:
- Any criminal conviction (including by Court Martial), or caution or fixed penalty notice for disorder or theft;
- Any adverse judicial findings;
- Any charges or summonses where the proceedings are not complete;
- Any misconduct or gross misconduct findings or where proceedings are not complete.
You will be asked to complete a declaration form covering the above if offered a role with the NCA.
Each case will be considered on its merits and a positive declaration does not automatically mean that your application will not be progressed. However, should you fail to disclose a relevant matter then your application or employment will be adversely affected. If in doubt, please declare it at this stage.
Multi-Location
Where more than one location is advertised, candidates will be appointed in merit order for each location. You will be asked to state your location preference on your application.
Please be aware that you can be posted to any location that you put in your preferences. If you would only like to be posted to one location, please confirm one location only. If you are posted to a location that you have requested and you do not accept that location, you may not be offered another role.
Please note, only advertised location can be offered. Notes populated in a free text box will not be taken into consideration.
Hybrid Working
Here at the NCA we have a hybrid working arrangement in place enabling officers to work a proportion of their role remotely. Eligibility and the degree of home working will vary depending on the requirements of the role. Further details can be discussed at offer stage.
Reasonable Adjustment
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. As part of our application process you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process that you may need. If you have a disability or long-term condition (a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long term effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, 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 ncarecruitment.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.
Inclusion and Accessibility
We are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader we are committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. For details of the available group please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers/benefits-and-support
In order to monitor the effectiveness of the National Crime Agency’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy, the NCA require certain personal details about you on submission of your application. Please note that this will be treated in confidence and will not impact your application. You will be asked to complete an E-consent survey asking for permission to share this data with the NCA to be used for statistical/monitoring purposes only, refusal of consent to share the information will not impact your application.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Additional Information
- The NCA is a 24/7 organisation, and working patterns must support business requirements. Some roles may require you to respond at short notice or outside of core hours.
- Individuals will be required to undertake and pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.
- Successful candidates may be required to undertake a medical. If required, the medical will take place in either London or Warrington. Unfortunately, travel costs will not be reimbursed.
- If you are an internal candidate who has passed interview but is undergoing an internal investigation or have a written warning in place preventing a post move you may not be able to be posted until this investigation is concluded or restriction lifted. You will remain on the reserve list for a max of 12 months
- Successful applicants currently employed by NCA for this post may request to remain in their current contractual location. This should be discussed and agreed prior to proceeding with pre-employment checks. Please note this is dependent on business needs, please commence discussions with the hiring manager at the earliest opportunity.
VETTING REQUIREMENTS SC
All security clearances require you to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK.
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
If you require SC clearance you will need to provide evidence of the below requirements.
Checks will be made against:
- Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
- UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
- Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
- Security Services records
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
We encourage all candidates to visit the NCA careers page for further information please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers
If you have any specific queries about the role that are not covered above please contact: ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : NCA Recruitment Team - GRS
- Email : ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission:
https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-complaints/
