Information and Data Management Officer
Flexible Working: Full time, part time, and compressed hours are possible. Due to the sensitive nature of the work, the majority of the role is office based with limited opportunities for remote working (up to potentially one day per month working from home for learning and development).
We're MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service, or SIS. Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. Our organisation is driven by knowledge and insights, and as an Information and Data Management Officer, you'll maximise the impact of our intelligence and actively contribute to our mission. We will actively encourage and support your development to help you build your knowledge and experience. You'll help implement best practice and share your existing knowledge to maximise the value of our information.
You'll represent the Data and Information Department and its aims. You'll likely complete your first role in a central team focusing on information, records or data management, to give you an understanding of our objectives and legal obligations. We value motivated people who will seize the opportunity to make their own career in Information and Data Management, depending on your areas of interest.
There may also be opportunities to provide customer training and drive excellence in information management behaviours across the organisation.
By joining us, you'll have a key role in enabling digital and technological change, which could include contributing to the development of working practices and policies, and ensuring developments in information management tools are implemented.
You'll have a qualification in information management, records management or data management. Or you'll hold a professional accreditation or chartership with the Information Records Management Society (IRMS), Chartered Institute of Library and Information professionals (CILIP) or the Archives and Records Association (ARA).
We are also keen to hear from those who have recently graduated with information, records or data management qualifications, and those with an existing broad set of data and information management skills. These could include customer engagement, communication and presentations skills, implementing best practice and knowledge sharing, planning, and organisation and prioritisation skills. In short, you'll have a head for information and data, but not data science for which we have a separate section and recruitment opportunities. You might have worked with an electronic document and records management system and developed information policies. Experience of delivering policy or technological change or working with a change team would be an advantage.
You'll be proactive about contributing your expertise to the Data and Information Management community.
Training and Development
You'll join a thriving Information, Data Management and Compliance community, working closely with experienced specialists. 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- Paid parental and adoption leave.
At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
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There is a wide range of extra support available throughout the recruitment process to enable you to do your best, see our website for information on the reasonable adjustments we can offer.
We're Disability Confident
MI6 is proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP's Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:
• A qualification in information management, records management or data management, or professional accreditation or chartership with IRMS or CILIP or ARA, or demonstrable proficiency in a data, information, or records management role.
• This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It's something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can't take any recreational drugs and you'll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.
This is good practice and will help you to manage your application with us more securely.
Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application. An interest-free loan via our benevolent fund is available to assist with relocating into privately rented accommodation to take up the offer of employment.
If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application.