Overview

As an Intelligence Technical Officer in the Environment Agency’s National Environmental Crime Unit, you will build confidence and capability across area teams in intelligence-led ways of working and the use of intelligence systems, to build a greater understanding of the Threat, Risk and Harm and drive a better approach to tackling environmental offending and protect officer safety.

This is a new role within the Intelligence and Partnerships team. You will support area teams by providing Memex training and promote the use and benefits of Memex and improve the quality of intelligence submitted.

Responsibilities

• Provide face to face training to area staff on our Intelligence system, MEMEX.
• Provide support and training to enable area teams to submit intelligence and conduct searches.
• Supervise intelligence logs to ensure a high standard of quality in submissions.
• Create entities from Memex submissions.
• Provide regular reports on performance and feedback on ways to improve performance.
• Ensure high standards of quality of intelligence submissions.
• Undertake other duties commensurate with the role.
• Respond to incidents as a central part of the role; be available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident (may attract additional payment and full training). Alternate working arrangements will be provided to support incident role.

Team and Environment

The Intelligence Team manages and develops all criminal intelligence for the Environment Agency, working with partners to drive an intelligence-led approach to tackling environmental crime across regimes. The team focuses on professional, timely service delivery and continuous improvement to meet customer needs.

Experience and Skills

• A good understanding of Intelligence and Intelligence systems.
• An ability to advocate for an intelligence-led approach and embed it across teams.
• Excellent influencing skills, ensuring Memex use is the norm and safety checks are mandatory.
• Proven ability to build strong, effective relationships.
• Ability to create and deliver engaging, effective and inclusive training.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to give feedback on ways to improve intelligence submission performance.
• Strong self-management and organisational skills.
• Excellent teamwork to support colleagues in achieving common goals.

Additional Information

• You will need to be comfortable working in a dispersed team. Location is flexible with a mix of home and office working; travel to Birmingham and other offices may be required on occasions.
• Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams and are expected to be in October.
• We welcome applications from under-represented groups and embrace diversity. Flexible working patterns, including job share, are supported; please indicate your preferred working arrangements on your application.
• Security vetting checks (SC and NPPV3) will be required.
• We are not able to support visa applications for this role.
• For an informal discussion please contact Pete Booth (Pete.booth@environment-agency.gov.uk) or Sam Morrison (sam.morrison@environment-agency.gov.uk).

Note: The Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service; internal status ideas and continuous service guidance may apply as described in local policy. Details on redundancy or continuity of service are provided in the original policy text and should be reviewed with your HR team if relevant.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology