Covert Internet Intelligence Officer - Warrington, United Kingdom - National Crime Agency

National Crime Agency

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Warrington, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £32,772 - £36,414

This role attracts a SPOT Rate salary. SPOT Rate offers a progressive increase in pay to reflect the skills and experience of the officer. The starting SPOT Rate is SPOT rate 1 £32,772 / SPOT rate 2 £34,137. Progression to a higher spot rate is only achievable once in post. Eligibility for spot rates is determined by the requirements of the role, not the skills or capabilities of the officer occupying the role. Roles where IPP or PIP2 accreditation is essential are eligible for spot rates.

Job grade:

Executive Officer
NCA Grade 5 / Police Constable
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Intelligence
Working pattern:
Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
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Job summary:

The National Covert Internet Targeting team (NCIT) use advanced and innovative open source techniques to conduct Covert Internet Investigations, targeting high threat Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) offenders operating on the clear and dark web.

As a Covert Internet Intelligence Officer in NCIT, you will use advanced open source intelligence to identify and attribute high threat CSA offenders online, and develop the intelligence NCIT need to enable an effective operational response to their crimes.

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Job description:

You will also be required to conduct strategic research into emerging and existing online threats relating to CSA to enhance and support operational knowledge.

NCIT operates standard working hours from Monday to Friday. However, operational requirements mean that on occasion you will be required to be flexible about these hours.

Person specification:

The role of NCIT is to tackle high risk high harm Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) offenders on the Dark and Clear web.

NCIT G5 Officers are trained in advanced open source and Covert Internet Investigations (CII) which is utilised on a daily basis.

Officers typically spend a substantial amount of time online scanning the dark and clear web, and reviewing any intelligence which is a risk to children and therefore could assist with the targeting and identification of CSA offenders.

CII work combines the speed and efficiency of open-source intelligence with the opportunity to exploit information kept behind closed doors away from open source intelligence practitioners.

It is a challenging role and it requires a lot of resilience but can be extremely rewarding.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Working Together
Making Effective Decisions
Developing Self and Others

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Good understanding of carrying out intelligence collection techniques, including experience of conducting online investigations using advanced open source tools.
Good understanding of the challenges of online investigations and relevant UK legislation.

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).

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Good understanding of carrying out intelligence collection techniques, including experience of conducting online investigations using advanced open source tools.

Sift results are expected to be released w/c 27th March 2023

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.

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