Lead Intelligence Analyst
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Job Title: Lead Intelligence Analyst
Salary: The starting salary is £45,073, which includes allowances totalling £2,841.
The salary is broken down as £42,232 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £50,385. Plus, a location allowance of £1,841 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Westminster, Croydon, Romford, Putney and Vauxhall
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to put your management and leadership skills to the test? Are you ready to be part of the New Met for London?
Working for Met Intelligence (MO2) you will be at the forefront of the unique challenge of policing London. Our structure enables the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to receive a clear picture of threats and priorities across London, informing how best to task officers, staff and assets to respond effectively. In order to deliver this service we need to ensure our staff have the right training, tools and leadership that puts intelligence at the heart of our operational response. As a Lead Analyst in MO2 you will play a pivotal role in achieving our vision to provide the highest standard of influential analysis and research to inform Frontline Policing and Specialist Operations, ultimately helping to tackle threat, risk and harm in London.
Duties and Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the effective running of your analysis and research team; motivating and developing each member whilst overseeing the production of analysis that explains crime patterns and trends relevant to the area you are accountable for, identifying new risks and threats and supporting the production of appropriate and quality assured products.
Being able to see the bigger picture, you will efficiently allocate analytical support by using a robust tasking process and establishing excellent communication and negotiation channels with your senior leadership team. As a natural problem-solver you’ll prioritise and identify issues, making quick, sound decisions, providing expertise to assist decision making at a strategic, tactical and operational level.
By working collaboratively and developing strong and effective relationships with internal and external partners, the intelligence you help to develop will hold the key to preventing and solving crimes, disrupting offenders and criminal networks and keeping communities safe from harm. By joining MO2 you will be strengthening the ability of the Metropolitan Police to meet these objectives and to improve the lives of those who live and work in this amazing city.
Key tasks
- Ensuring that the analytical output from your team informs local and MPS-wide tasking processes and supports the delivery of the MPS Control Strategy.
- Overseeing the identification of intelligence requirements and making informed decisions around the prioritised deployment of your team’s resources to ensure efficient, effective analysis and research is undertaken and analytical support is provided at a strategic, tactical and operational level to mitigate threat, risk and harm.
- Supervision of the analysis around crime and disorder problems, themes or trends undertaken by your team, ensuring any intelligence products or briefings produced are well informed, quality assurance controlled and meet the required national standards. In addition, you will maintain a strategic oversight of your team’s remit with the responsibility to create relevant strategic products.
- Responsibility for the overall welfare and supervision of your analysis and research team, managing their workload and carrying out regular performance development reviews to support their progress.
- To be a central point of contact, managing expectations and enabling collaboration with other MPS units, key stakeholders and customers; orchestrating any data exchange with MPS and strategic partners where appropriate. Negotiate successfully with Senior Officers and staff to ensure mutually agreed, consistent (and where needed, bespoke) service provision.
- Ensuring that analytical support helps drive innovation and best practice by promoting the roles of the analysts, researchers and Intelligence Officers (where appropriate); liaising with police officers and partners to develop relationships and processes that support the analytical requirements of MO2 and MPS intelligence objectives.
- Maintain awareness of innovation within the field of intelligence to enable implementation of the latest techniques, tactics, best practice and information relevant to the role; ensuring compliance with guidance relating to collection, recording, evaluation, sharing, review, retention and disposal of information.
MO2 Employee Commitments
Met Intelligence (MO2) aims to create an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere for all staff. A working environment where any group or individual can be and feel respected, supported and valued to fully participate and contribute to the Metropolitan Police mission of “More trust, Less crime, Higher standards”.
Inclusion, diversity and equality is central to our approach in making Met Intelligence more representative of the communities we serve. We view all forms of diversity as fundamental to our success. Effective local policing relies upon strong intelligence support from our public and across all our communities, applications from across all communities are therefore essential and encouraged.
MO2 is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, we believe everyone should be able to bring their true self to work, so we are working to enhance a culture where there is a strong sense of belonging. A supportive environment where everyone experiences respect, encouragement and appreciation to reach their full potential.
Additional information
- The offer of employment is subject to successful completion of our vetting processes.
- All successful applicants will be required to achieve and maintain the Intelligence Professionalisation Programme (IPP) Certification.
- Although this is mainly an office based role, we are able to accommodate flexible and agile working in line with core resilience needs.
- Please provide the following 3 submissions as part of your application:
- CV detailing your previous experience and relevant skills (no more than two sides of A4)
- Personal statement outlining your suitability for the role, why you are applying and what you could bring to the organisation as a leader (no more than two sides of A4)
- Using no more than 500 words, please provide one detailed example to demonstrate the competency ‘We support, deliver and inspire – Leve2’ from the Competency and Values framework (CVF) for Policing.
How to apply
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 21st April 2024.
Essential for the Role: e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training
What we’re looking for…
Essential Criteria
- Critical thinking skills - Proven experience as an Intelligence Analyst with a highly developed knowledge of research, analysis and evaluation and a passion for working in policing and intelligence.
- Management capability – Ensuring the welfare needs of your team are met as well as developing their proficiency by reviewing and assessing individual and team performance against expected standards, providing objective and effective feedback and if required, ensuring corrective actions are taken.
- Leadership – The capability to not only manage your team but lead it by example; motivating and inspiring your staff, adopting effective decision-making strategies and acting as an advocate for both your team and the Senior Leadership Team, delivering difficult messages when necessary
- Communication Skills – A strong ability to present your work in a clear and concise written format, as well as deliver your findings verbally, adapting your output to meet the needs of different audiences.
- Negotiation skills – Ability to quality assure intelligence products, problem solve and negotiate with, and influence, senior managers based on data and analytical outcomes.
- Honesty and Integrity - The ability to maintain the highest levels of integrity, discretion and confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
- Strong Interpersonal skills - The ability to build and maintain effective relationships with staff and officers of all levels, as well as external partners, promoting a positive and professional image of the MPS; identifying key stakeholders and taking appropriate steps to understand their needs and concerns.
- Initiative -The capability to use initiative to manage your own workload and that of your team, planning ahead to appropriately allocate work, identifying and mitigating risks to delivery.
- Flexibility and adaptability - The ability to work within a fast-paced environment with competing priorities, taking a flexible approach to working hours and locations where business need dictates.
- IT Literacy - Excellent IT skills, including a high level of experience working with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience in leading, supervising and managing a team.
- Skilled in using specialised software to extract, analyse and report on data.
- Experience of training and coaching members of staff
- Understanding of relevant legislation, corporate IT systems and policies appropriate to role and their use (including Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and Management of Police Information)
- Knowledge of the National Intelligence Model
- Familiarity with the practice of intelligence gathering and understanding of associated techniques, legislation and codes of practice.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that Women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification, or already possess each skill being requested. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description we’d love you to apply anyway - you might actually be the perfect person for the role, or even for another role within Met Intelligence.
Benefits
You’ll also enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers. These include;
- Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service.
- Civil service pension arrangements
- Accredited training opportunities
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Membership of Met sports and social clubs
- Flexible working conditions and many more
- We support, deliver and inspire at level 2
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.