Intelligence Officer - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Rural Payments Agency

Rural Payments Agency
Rural Payments Agency
Verified Company
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £27,470 - £28,606
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Regulatory and Advice Service
    Type of role:
  • Analytical
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 2Contents
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  • Bridgwater, Bristol, Cambridge, Carlisle, Crewe, Exeter, Leeds, Lincoln, NewcastleuponTyne, Nottingham, Reading, Worcester, Workington, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:

Do you like using a range of information to solve problems?

Do you like the idea of creating intelligence that has a direct positive impact on our environment?

Do you thrive when working in a fast-paced environment?

If you answer
YES to the three questions above, then this could be the role for you


As part of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) wider ambitions, the Regulatory and Advice Service (RAS) is undergoing a transformational change.

It's moving from a historic model of specific inspection activity to one that offers an intelligence-driven approach.


This intelligence-led approach will identify and pre-emptively address risks to environmental outcomes, support farmers and land managers in meeting these and ensuring public money maximises the benefits to the environment and agricultural communities.


Specifically, working with colleagues in our Geospatial team, we are developing an Intelligence, Monitoring and Tasking Unit that will use a range of information sources to monitor risks to compliance with payment scheme rules and their environmental outcomes.

We will use the intelligence you provide to target, deploy, and measure the efficacy of a range of interventions, including visit activity, to effectively mitigate these risks.


The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), delivering over £2 billion in payments to farmers, traders and landowners each year.


We are an Operational Delivery Profession organisation, with the majority of our people delivering day to day services to our customers and stakeholders.

We make excellent delivery happen, empowering agricultural and rural communities to create a better place to live.

We manage over 40 schemes, and also make payments on behalf of Natural England, to ensure we have a healthy rural economy, strong and sustainable rural communities, and to protect and enhance the natural environment.

Our vision is to create a great place for people living in this country. We have developed a set of four strategic objectives covering our policy outcomes and corporate objectives.

These objectives help us to deliver our ambitious vision to build our green and healthy future and provide a framework for all of the important work that we carry out.


Job description:


The new Intelligence, Monitoring and Tasking Unit (IMTU) is being put together in order to create intelligence from information gathered by RPA and other Defra departments.

This intelligence will be used by the team and by stakeholders to identify areas where there is a high risk of non-compliance with the RPA's managed funding schemes.

Once these higher risk areas have been identified the team will then contribute towards the targeting and testing of interventions that would reduce the potential error rate.

Therefore, this team will have a key role in saving taxpayer money from being improperly distributed and having a positive impact on the environment through upholding RPA's environmental schemes.


As an Intelligence Officer within the IMTU you will be responsible for analysing information regarding customer non-compliance, identifying relevant supplementary information from across Defra group to enhance your reporting and creating intelligence products identifying individuals or groups at risk of becoming non-compliant.


You will investigate non-compliance on both a single customer basis in response to public or internal referrals of wrong-doing, or, on a scheme basis where a scheme option or regulatory requirement has been identified to have a higher than standard non-compliance rate.

In both cases your job will be to understand the cause of the issue, understand how widespread the issue is across the farming population, and, identify possible corrective interventions.

Once an intervention has been decided on and actioned you will work with colleagues from across RPA to determine the effectiveness of the taken action to ensure value for money was achieved.


Key Responsibilities

  • Collation, analysis, interpretation and reporting of intelligence relating to emerging risks to regulatory compliance and risk of fraud and error in the farming, food producer and agricultural sector.
  • Identification, collation and analysis of information from across the RPA and
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