Local recruitment: Water Quality Senior Crime Analyst

Environment Agency

England, UK 🇬🇧

Number of jobs available: 1
Region: National
City/Town: All, Various
Grade: Staff Grade 5
Post Type: Permanent
Role Type: Operational Delivery
Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time, Other
Salary Minimum: ÂŁ41,617
Closing Date: 04/02/2025, 23:55 hours

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Job description

As a Senior Crime Analyst in the Environment Agency’s National Environmental Crime Unit, you will be leading on the crime analysis support for Water Industry Regulation Transformation (WIRT) programme.

Your work will include:

  • Supporting complex Water Industry investigations from intelligence through to evidential stage.
  • Producing criminal intelligence products regarding the current, medium and long-term threats and risks facing the EA in Water Industry offending.
  • Preparing evidential products, exhibits, statements and giving evidence at court if required.
  • Briefing investigators, peers and managers on your analytical findings.
  • Influencing others and advocating for crime analysis as well as intelligence led enforcement.
  • Supporting the WIRT programme become intelligence led and help with MoRiLE assessments of Water Industry investigations.
  • Share expertise with Water Industry Regulation colleagues developing intelligence products in the compliance space.
  • Support work to develop a joined-up approach to intelligence led regulation and enforcement.
  • Any other duties that are commensurate with the role and depending on the organisational need.

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

For further information please see the candidate pack.

Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties when the need to respond arises Having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack

The team

The Intelligence Team manage and develop all criminal intelligence for the EA. 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 including water industry offending. 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

It’s essential that the successful applicant is an experienced Crime or Intelligence Analyst with NIAT, IPP or equivalent.

We are also looking for applicants who can demonstrate the following:
•Experience in Tactical and Strategic analysis.
•Proven Analytical and critical thinking skills in a law enforcement or intelligence team.
•Excellent communication skills including delivering feedback, negotiation, motivating people and nurturing relationships.
•Exceptional report writing skills including the ability to express complex ideas in a clear and concise way.
•Highly organised and able to prioritise a varied workload.
•Able to work with minimal supervision.
•Confidence in presenting your work to audiences at varying levels of knowledge and experience.
•Working collaboratively with other teams and external stakeholders.
•Demonstrable coaching/mentoring skills with an appetite for developing people’s capabilities as well as your own.
•Strong IT skills including use of Microsoft Office Suite and analytical software such as i2 Analysts Notebook and GIS.

Contact and additional information

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, however travel to our Birmingham and other offices where your staff are based will be required on occasions.

Interviews will be face to face at our office in Birmingham.

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 discussion please contact Principal Crime Analyst Jaz Chohhan at jasvinder.chohhan@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Competence 1: Achieves Results
Description
Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets. Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results.

Can you please tell us about a situation where you used your crime and intelligence analysis skills to work under tight deadlines or in a high-pressure setting?

Competence 2: Communicates Effectively
Description
Listens and questions to understand and engage. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively through speech and writing.

Can you please give an example of a time you have had to present the findings of your crime and intelligence analysis to a diverse audience of different levels of understanding and experience?

Competence 3: 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.
Can you please tell us about a situation when you produced an intelligence product using analytical techniques where the results or findings were challenged? How did you overcome the challenges?
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 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.


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