Home Office Intelligence

Description:

The Operational Intelligence Units (OIUs) are part of Home Office Intelligence. OIUs include operational and non-operational staff who develop intelligence products to protect vulnerable people and communities while reducing the illegal population and the harm that it causes.

This exciting role offers the candidate the opportunity to work proactively with internal and external partners across a large geographical area with a view to developing high quality intelligence packages to support the work of Immigration, Compliance and Enforcement (ICE) teams.

The successful candidate will be part of a high performing team directed by the Field Intelligence Manager and key to the delivery of Immigration Enforcement priorities. They will actively develop relationships and be responsible for the identification and development of new workstreams and sources of intelligence.

The role will help in the development of intelligence skills and is an excellent and challenging opportunity for the right candidate.

Training

The role of intelligence is continuing to develop within the Home Office as we aim to professionalise roles through staff training and qualifications. The successful candidate will work towards an Intelligence Professionalisation Programme (IPP) accreditation within the first year in post. The Home Office is also developing an IPP career pathway framework to set out how intelligence practitioners can proactively move between IPP organisations to improve their intelligence knowledge and skills sets.

The successful candidates must be Immigration Enforcement arrest trained, or willing and able to pass an arrest training course (including required health assessment) once in post. They must complete the required training in order to fulfil any intelligence gathering requirements when deployed with an Immigration Compliance & Enforcement (ICE) arrest team and will be required to wear a uniform when undertaking any arrest duties.

Candidates will also be required to undergo mandatory refresher arrest training every 12 months and must continue to meet the required health and fitness standards via annual health assessments.

As these are warranted roles with the powers of arrest, it is an essential requirement to complete the requisite training and the roles are conditional on passing a mandatory training programme, which will include a health fitness assessment, Enforcement training (4-week course) and Arrest training (2-week course). Other additional training focusing on the intelligence aspect of the role will also be provided.

Due to the nature of this role, it is only available on a full-time working pattern.

Person specification

The successful candidates will be responsible for:

• Proactively gathering, assessing, researching, developing and disseminating intelligence in the appropriate format
• Actively seeking to develop relationships with both internal and external business partners in order to identify new work streams and sources of intelligence to develop high quality intelligence products for enforcement teams and criminal investigations
• Undertaking field visits to develop intelligence by visiting employers and stakeholders
• Providing intelligence support to the Immigration Compliance Enforcement (ICE) teams deployed in the field
• Actively participating in operational visits in order to direct the gathering of intelligence
• Rectifying Intelligence gaps in line with tasking, undertaking debriefing of individuals where necessary and engaging with sources to identify and refer covert human intelligence opportunities
• Focusing on generating and developing regional campaign activity as directed by the Field Intelligence Manager and in adherence with Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) instructions.

Essential criteria

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
• Experience of building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment, developing innovative solutions to support business needs
• Good working knowledge of IT and related applications. For example, Word, Excel and PowerPoint