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.

Responsibilities

• Support area teams by providing Memex training and promote the use and benefits of Memex and improve the quality of intelligence submitted.
• 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 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.
• Other duties that are commensurate with the role.
• Respond to incidents as required, with incident role and availability to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training, and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

The team

The Intelligence Team manage and develop all criminal intelligence for the Environment Agency. Made up of several roles and disciplines, we build and maintain strong relationships with our partners to work as one enforcement community and drive our intelligence-led approach to tackling environmental crime across many regimes. The team provide a professional and timely service and are focussed on continuously improving how we do things to make sure our outcomes meet our customers’ needs.

Experience/skills Required

• We are looking for self-motivated and proactive applicants who can demonstrate the following:
• A good understanding of Intelligence and Intelligence systems
• An ability to advocate for an intelligence-led approach and embed across teams
• Excellent influencing skills, ensuring Memex use is the norm and safety checks are mandatory
• Success in building 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
• Great teamwork to support colleagues achieve common goals

Location and Working Arrangements

You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. Location is flexible and we are happy to support smarter ways of working through a mixture of home and office working; travel to Birmingham and other offices where staff are based will be required on occasions.

Recruitment Process

Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams and are expected to be in October.

We want to reflect the diverse communities that we serve, embracing difference and including everyone, so welcome applications from groups that are under-represented across our workforce.

Note that security vetting checks (SC and NPPV3) will be required. Note that we are not able to support visa applications for this role.

Contact

For an informal discussion please contact Pete Booth Pete.booth@environment-agency.gov.uk or Sam Morrison sam.morrison@environment-agency.gov.uk

Additional information

• Competence 1: Influences and Persuades Others — Description: Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly; often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail.
• Competence 2: Builds and Sustains Relationships — Description: Develops and maintains effective working relationships; liaises with a wide range of customers to promote the use and benefits of our Intelligence system.
• Competence 3: Communicates Effectively — Description: Listens and questions to understand and engage; conveys information clearly, accurately and persuasively.
• Competence 4: Takes Decisions and Solves Problems — Description: Finds and delivers optimal solutions by analysing information and taking timely decisions.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment and ensure equality of opportunity.

The Environment Agency is committed to diversity and inclusion and to providing value for money in recruitment.

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