Job Description

We are seeking a highly driven Intelligence Officer to join the Environment Agency\'s National Enforcement Service (NES) in a dynamic part of the business.

Environmental crime is a strategic priority for us, attracting high profile attention from the public, media, national and international stakeholders. The role provides an exciting opportunity for you to help deliver our response to it by pro-actively developing and accessing intelligence from a range of sources to inform decision making and provide actionable intelligence products. Our team plan, monitor and deliver compliance and enforcement activity for the following areas of waste regulation; Producer Responsibility, which consists of Packaging, Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment and Batteries. This role provide an exciting opportunity to support fraud related investigations and help prioritise and drive forward interventions to remove unlawful operators from the waste regimes.

Our ambition is to be an intelligence-led organisation so having the ability to manage intelligence professionally and in line with current guidance is essential to ensuring that any threat, risk and harm is appropriately assessed and managed.

Being a team player and establishing effective working relationships with your colleagues, internal customers and external law enforcement partners will be critical to ensure that we realise this ambition

The team

NES supports the Environment Agency\'s enforcement community which is spread across 14 geographical areas and a number of national services - tackling around 40,000 suspected and alleged offences each year, from non-compliance, financially motivated criminal behaviour and serious organised crime.

You will be part of our Intelligence & Partnerships department aligned to WROS working alongside intelligence professionals, providing intelligence products and assessments.

Experience/skills required

Protecting the environment is at the heart of everything we do, so you must be passionate about stopping crime to protect people and places.

Your background will be specifically in an intelligence field and you will be required to evidence:

• Experienced in handling sensitive information and recording and disseminating intelligence material. Be competent in the use of IT and intelligence systems

• Able to produce high quality written intelligence products to clearly and accurately inform our decision making, utilising great communication skills.

• You will be self-motivated to achieve excellence in your work, have a keen eye for detail and driven to embed an intelligence led service for the prevention & disruption of Serious Organised Crime.

• You will develop and maintain strong relationships with our internal customers and external partner agencies, identifying intelligence gaps and interpreting and sharing intelligence and information to assess risk and direct resources effectively.

Contact and additional information

Location is flexible and we are happy to support smarter ways of working through a mixture of home and office working but travel to our Birmingham office - where most of our staff are based will be required regularly.

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.

For an informal chat, please contact steph.ingham@environment-agency.gov.uk

A reserve list will be created with this advert.

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Candidate pack

Closing Date:

01/10/2023, 23:55 hours

Level of security checks required

Basic Check

Competence 1

Achieves Results

Description

In your role you\'ll support the detection, prevention and disruption of Serious Organised Waste Crime, particularly in the waste sector through delivery of actionable intelligence led products. Intelligence officers often have to work within tight timescales. Please give an example of when you have had to deliver an important piece of work within a short time frame and the outcomes you achieved.

Competence 2

Focuses on Customers and Partners

Description

Being a team player and establishing effective working relationships with your colleagues, internal customers and external law enforcement partners will be critical in the delivery of your role, please provide an example of collaborative intelligence led partnership working and how you managed the needs of an important customer.

Competence 3

Data and Information Management

Description

Our ambition is to be an intelligence-led organisation, so having the ability to manage intelligence professionally and in line with current guidance is essential to ensuring that any threat, risk and harm is appropriately assessed and managed. Please provide an example of a piece of work or task that you have supported or led on, evidence the collection plan and how you managed the intelligence in line with the appropriate standards, the final product you produced and how the product supported an intelligence led approach

If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit for more information.

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