About the job

Job summary

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Do you have an interest in intelligence analysis?

Would you like to develop your career in intelligence?

Can you deliver high quality work against tight deadlines?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Job description

The Department for Transport (DfT) is looking for someone who may be early on in their intelligence career or who already has an established intelligence background. This role presents a valuable opportunity for someone looking to gain exposure into different policy areas and supporting translation of intelligence assessments into tangible policy and operational decisions, within a department that is growing in its national security credentials.

This role would be as of one of three intelligence and threats advisors within DfT, supported by two Senior Intelligence and Threats Advisors, a UKIC secondee and a head of team. The team are the main point of intersect between the UK intelligence community and the whole of the DfT. You will therefore have responsibility for ensuring that both are adequately influencing the other and that policymakers across the DfT have the correct intelligence picture in order to make the most informed decisions.

This role sits within the Intelligence and Threats Team (ITT), which itself is a part of the Transport Security Operation Centre (TSOC). TSOC leads the department’s planning for and responses to major incidents which impact the transport network, both domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Monitoring the application of STRAP security guidelines and advising on any shortcomings or issues.
• Maintaining close liaison with the STRAP authorities and building strong professional relationships with key internal and external stakeholders across Government.
• Ensuring that the DfT STRAP facility maintains its accreditation and ensuring the operating procedures comply with requirements, ensuring all appropriate actions in response to STRAP incidents/ breaches and suspected breaches are carried out in accordance with policy and timescales.
• Working with policy decision makers in the DfT to ensure policy and capability decisions are appropriately influenced by the threat picture.
• Working with the UK intelligence community to ensure the DfT has access to the relevant reporting.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

About you

You will have excellent interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences. You are someone who can work at pace while managing multiple and often conflicting priorities to time and to a high standard.

Given the fast-paced evolution of threats, and the changing nature of transport systems, the post holder will need to be able to assimilate and communicate sensitive, sometimes technical, information to support risk mitigation and policy development.

You will often be working on multiple priority workstreams at any one time, so brilliant organisational skills and calmness under pressure are paramount to this role.

Additional Information

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. 

Please note, there may be a need for you to partake in temporary on-call work, should a situation arise that requires it. There may be an allowance available if this were to happen.

The role requires DV clearance however candidates can onboard with SC Clearance and continue undergoing DV whilst in post. Should the successful candidate not obtain DV then there will be a requirement to be re-deployed to an alternative post should a position be available.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

1. A CV demonstrating your suitability for the role.

2. Written behavioural examples (250 words each) of you having demonstrated the following: Delivering at Pace and Communicating and Influencing.

3. A written technical example in (250 words) providing evidence of how you have demonstrated the following technical skill from the Intelligence Analysis Professional Development Framework:

Proficient level – Co-operation, Co-ordination and Challenge

Knowledge of Intelligence assessment community:

• You build a range of effective working relationships, applying your knowledge of the intelligence assessment community to ensure you develop relations with the most relevant individuals and organisations.
• You are comfortable with being a dissenting voice, articulating your argument clearly with respect, robust analysis and logic. You escalate dissent through the management chain where necessary.

See description on Gov.uk Intelligence Analysis Development Framework: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-analysis-professional-development-framework

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead behaviour, Delivering at Pace. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.

The sift is due to take place from Monday 18th December 2023.

Interviews are likely to be held from Monday 8th January 2024.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• An Interview.

This interview will be conducted online via MS Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Document Accessibility

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Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role

Pre-employment Checking

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.