Intelligence Officer at British High Commission

Vacancy Notice No.: 03/16 LOS
Grade: B3
Section: NCA (National Crime Agency)
Position Type: 6 months fixed term contract

Main Purpose of Job

• The British Deputy High Commission is looking to recruit an Intelligence Officer to work on a newly established joint unit ran by the National Crime Agency (NCA) but comprising of UK Border Force and Home Office Immigration and Enforcement (HOIE).
• This joint unit will be investigating and providing intelligence support into the investigation of Human Trafficking (HT), Drug Trafficking, Corruption and Economic Crime in Nigeria.
• The officer will work with local partners on all forms of Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) investigations providing and capturing current intelligence and ensuring all intelligence records are accurate.
• They will also conduct UK end intelligence enquiries to support Nigerian Operations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will undertake a variety of tasks including the analysing of ongoing and previous SOC operations to capture and record all available intelligence.
• To analyse and progress new opportunities to investigate SOC.
• The officer will be required to deal with suspects and possible passengers/potential victims of trafficking referred to the BDHC by airlines and partner agencies and to undertake checks against confidential databases.

Duties will include:

• Receiving, handling and disseminating intelligence information.
• Operational support to NCA Managers.
• Identify opportunities to capture SOC intelligence.
• Analyse available intelligence in order to identify new SOC operations.
• Support senior officers when providing training to external partners
• Liaising with external partners and analysing information to identify trends.
• Work and research cases that merit further investigation

Key Competences Required:

• Seeing the big picture
• Making effective decisions
• Leading and communicating
• Collaborating and partnering
• Managing a quality service

Language Requirements:

• Language: English
• Level of language required: Fluent

Skills / Experience / Qualifications

• Essential on arrival: Ability to gather relevant intelligence
• Drafting of tactical and thematic intelligence reports
• An understanding/awareness of UK law enforcement capabilities/investigative legislation.
• Mentoring the Project Support Officers with delegated administrative duties
• Work with programme leads and implementing partners to monitor progress against set criteria to deliver programme and component objectives.
• Providing administrative/operational support to the Project Mentors as required
• Be able to work quickly, accurately, flexibly (there may be times when unsocial hours of attendance will be required i.e. evening/weekends) often under time pressure.
• Have a positive approach to tackling problems.
• Willingness to take on new and challenging tasks.
• Good communication with excellent spoken and written English.
• The ability to remain customer focused, polite and courteous under pressure.
• The ability to work quickly and reliably with little supervision, to regularly meet challenging targets across the range of duties.
• The ability to effectively handle large volumes of information and identify trends.
• Excellent team players - this is an “all for one and one for all” environment.

Desirable:

• At least 2 years of Intelligence/administrative experience
• Fluency in English, orally and in writing
• Strong IT skills using Microsoft software, particularly Excel and MS Access databases would advantageous