Senior Technical Officer - Senior Investigator - Investigations & Disruption Team (IDT) - 31301
Senior Technical Officer - Senior Investigator - Investigations & Disruption Team (IDT) - 31301
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Job Description
Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
Job Description
Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
This role is based within the Investigations & Disruptions Team in Environmental Markets and Regulation. We’re a national team with officers based across England, ensuring a consistent regulatory approach across the country.
As a department we ensure that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations – ‘right waste, right place’.
You will be key to Leading, monitoring and delivering compliance and enforcement activity within your area of waste regulation, to drive a circular economy.
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM
As a STO – Senior Investigator, you will:
* Lead serious and complex investigations into Producer Responsibility fraud and associated offending.
* Direct and undertake the compilation of evidential files for consideration by Legal Services and Counsel.
* Motivate, advise and guide a cohort of Investigation Support Officers to deliver outcomes on your behalf.
* Generate and record intelligence, identifying opportunities to disrupt and prevent criminal activity.
* Be a subject matter expert on investigation across the wider department / organisation.
A mandatory requirement of the role is to undergo Security Clearance Vetting.
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. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. This may attract an additional payment.
Please see the candidate pack for further information.
The team
We are a supportive and inclusive department that encourages our teams’ health, safety, wellbeing, and development. We aim to improve the quality of recycling and ensure waste entering and leaving the country is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery. We help to protect and improve the environment by regulating industry, ensuring compliance, and eliminating illegal activities.
Key areas we regulate: Packaging Waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Batteries and International Waste Shipments.
Experience/skills Required
We are looking for applicants who can:
* Be a motivated self-starter with a can-do approach.
* Be well organised with a proven history of action allocation and investigation supervision.
* Be used to working on own initiative and a good team player.
* Be able to balance multiple pieces of work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
* An extensive understanding and practical history of the disclosure of unused material under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.
* Be competent in the interpretation of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
* Have experience of undertaking complex suspect and witness interviews.
* Experience of working with partnership agencies.
* Leadership and investigation of serious complex crime including case file assembly.
* Understanding of Criminal Justice processes.
* Experience of leading fraud and money laundering investigations.
Contact and additional information
We offer an attractive benefits package including:
A fantastic pension scheme, competitive salary, flexible working and a starting annual leave allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays (pro rata). For more information, please see the candidate pack.
Interviews for the role are expected Mid August in person. Location to be confirmed.
You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. The Environment Agency utilise a hybrid working approach, including office and home working. Regular travel within your base area and travelling for training and meetings is expected in Birmingham, Sheffield and Leeds, other areas may be required.
We may use the outcomes from this recruitment for future vacancies within the next 6 months.
For an informal discussion please contact Jonathon.Wilkinson@environment-agency.gov.uk
Competence 1
Illegal Activity Detection and Enforcement
Description
Uses intelligence to detect suspected illegal activities. Instigates and carries out enforcement action where illegal activities have been detected
Please provide an example of where you have led and conducted a complex or protracted criminal or regulatory investigation leading to a successful enforcement outcome.
Competence 2
Achieves Results
Description
Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets.
Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results
Please provide an example of a piece of work you have led on, which involved using partner agencies, where you needed to overcome challenges to achieve an outcome.
Competence 3
Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Description
Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
Please give an example of an occasion while working in regulation or enforcement when you have used a creative or innovative approach to disrupt crime.
Competence 4
Influences and Persuades Others
Description
Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly; often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail.
Please provide an example of a time you have influenced others to change their approach to achieve the goals of your project or investigation.
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls. Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
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