Job description
As an Intelligence Technical Officer in the Environment Agency’s National Environmental Crime Unit, you will build confidence and capability across area teams in intelligence‑led ways of working and the use of intelligence systems, to build a greater understanding of the Threat, Risk and Harm and drive a better approach to tackling environmental offending and protect officer safety.
This is a new role within the Intelligence and Partnerships team. You will support area teams by providing Memex training and promote the use and benefits of Memex and improve the quality of intelligence submitted. Providing face to face training to area staff on our Intelligence system, MEMEX. Providing support and training to enable area teams to submit intelligence and conduct searches. Supervising intelligence logs to ensure high standard of quality in submissions. Creating entities from Memex submissions. Providing regular reports on performance and feedback on ways to improve performance. Ensuring high standards of quality of intelligence submissions. Other duties that are commensurate with the role.
We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please clearly include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application. Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training, and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.
The team: The Intelligence Team manage and develop all criminal intelligence for the Environment Agency. Made up of several roles and disciplines, we build and maintain strong relationships with our partners to work as one enforcement community and drive our intelligence-led approach to tackling environmental crime across many regimes. The team provide a professional and timely service and are focussed on continuously improving how we do things to make sure our outcomes meet our customers’ needs.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for self-motivated and proactive applicants who can demonstrate the following:
* A good understanding of Intelligence and Intelligence systems
* An ability to advocate for an intelligence-led approach and embed across teams
* Excellent influencing skills, ensuring Memex use is the norm and safety checks are mandatory
* Success in building strong, effective relationships
* Ability to create and deliver engaging, effective and inclusive training
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to give feedback on ways to improve intelligence submission performance
* Strong self-management and organisational skills
* Great team work to support colleagues achieve common goals
Requirements and additional information
* You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. Location is flexible with a mix of home and office working, but travel to Birmingham and other offices will be required on occasions.
* Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams and are expected to be in October.
* Disability and diversity: We reflect diverse communities and welcome applications from groups that are under-represented. We have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment.
* Security vetting checks (SC and NPPV3) will be required. We are not able to support visa applications for this role.
* For an informal discussion please contact Pete Booth or Sam Morrison (contacts included in the posting).
* Note: Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service; continuous service may have different rules in different sectors. If unsure, check with your HR Team.
Seniority level: Associate
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Information Technology
Location: Stafford, Birmingham, West Midlands, Crewe and surrounding areas, England, United Kingdom
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