Intelligence Assessment (IA) is part of Analysis, within HMRC's Risk and Intelligence Service (RIS). We provide HMRC with dedicated and professional intelligence analytical expertise, delivering high quality products to customers across the department and wider government.

We are a key function in HMRC, considered leaders in our field by other Government departments.

The work we do increases HMRC's understanding of the changing threat and risk landscape from those intent on stealing, evading, and avoiding taxation and public finance.

As a senior leader in RIS IA, you will play an integral part in HMRC's decision making processes, providing intelligence assessment and insight to all aspects of not only HMRC but also the wider UK Government and Civil Service.

You will have the opportunity to lead intelligence analysis teams across the UK and have a diverse portfolio of responsibilities.

Throughout your career in IA, you will have training and support to develop within the role.

As a senior leader in RIS IA, you will have the following responsibilities:

• You will be a highly visible leader that continuously drives the direction of the team ensuring this direction reflects wider strategic priorities, bringing together geographically dispersed teams to deliver high quality intelligence analysis and assessment to a range of customers.
• You will drive a national performance culture, ensuring professional standards are at the heart of everything we do, providing a service that customers need and our teams can be proud of.
• You will lead collaboration with partners across HMRC and the wider Government/Civil Service, actively promoting the work of IA to ensure customers understand what we offer.
• You will understand the importance of intelligence and information for making assessments and ensuring these assessments are delivered to the highest possible analytical standards.
• You will champion and promote continuous professional development of specialist teams so that our people remain highly skilled and valued for the skills that they bring to customers across Customer Compliance Group. As part of a cross government profession, you will lead on both personal and team development to ensure the best delivery of the profession.

Please note that you will be expected to travel away from the office and undertake (occasional) overnight stays.

Person specification

Key skills:

As a senior leader in RIS IA, you will play a key role in the way we operate across the entire business area with impact across HMRC and wider. Please note the below key skills are required:

• Have experience of leading teams to deliver intelligence analysis and assessment from multiple sources against strategic priorities
• Have experience of taking complex information and producing understandable products for a wide audience of non-specialists
• Have exceptional leadership skills with the ability to drive professional standards
• Learn from experience, adapting your approach where necessary to deliver improvements
• Are effective at creating an environment that encourages risk-taking and challenges existing practices
• Build networks across multiple stakeholders to achieve the team's aims
• Support the team's delivery and promote/support against challenge from stakeholders
• Have an inspirational leadership style that motivates staff through change
• Be an inclusive leader as we are proud to be part of a diverse team

Essential Criteria

Qualifications
Applicants must have completed one of the core professional intelligence analyst training programmes as recognised by Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis (PHIA - Cabinet Office) from the following list:
• NAP - PHIA New Analyst Programme
• NIAT - National Intelligence Analysis Training
• GIAT - Government Intelligence Analyst Training
• DIAM - Defence Intelligence Analyst Module
• HMRC IA PTP - Intelligence Analysis Professional Trial Period

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be asked to give a 10-15 minute presentation on a piece of intelligence analysis/assessment that you have undertaken, which should be prepared in advance. More information will be given to candidates shortlisted for interview

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,344, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,322 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

To find out more about HMRC benefits and find out what it's really like to work for HMRC hear from our insiders or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service

Things you need to know

Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• An anonymised, 500-word CV including your job history and previous experiences. We recommend that your CV includes the last 3 roles of employment history, plus any other roles that you feel are relevant. A short narrative outlining what you delivered, and your key achievements, will help you to demonstrate your experience more clearly. Any words over the 500-word limit will not be considered and may result in information you feel is relevant not being assessed.
• A 750-word personal statement. Your personal statement should confirm which of the core professional intelligence analyst training programmes you have completed, and demonstrate how your experience meets the responsibilities and key skills of the role. Please note that using the STAR format will help you to structure your examples.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

We acknowledge that AI can assist you in your application. Find our guidelines here.

Sift

In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on your personal statement.

At full sift, your CV and your personal statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Interview

During the panel interview, you will be asked behaviour questions to explore in detail what you are capable of.

You will also be asked to give a 10-15 minute Technical presentation on a piece of intelligence analysis/assessment you have overseen the delivery of, which you should prepare in advance. The presentation should showcase your Practitioner level of the PHIA PDF skills:

• Informing decision making
  
  
• Communication of intelligence assessment
  
  
• Co-operation, co-ordination and challenge.

Full details will be provided to shortlisted candidates.

Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days(Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk - Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example - 'Please re-open my application - [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]'.

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application .

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles - if this applies to you, we'll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Merit List

After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the "Assistance required" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Additional Security Information

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Developed Vetting (DV) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for DV is 10 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:

Please note that this role is unsuitable for contractual homeworkers due to the nature and/or requirements of the role.

Additional Information

We are looking into ways to enhance the applicant experience.

As part of our legitimate interests, we are testing the use of new technologies such as automation and/or Artificial Intelligence in the assessment for CV, personal statement and behaviour statement.

Please note that for this specific vacancy, this testing may run in parallel with our standard assessment process and will not influence or determine the outcome of your application in any way. You can read the Civil Service Jobs and HMRC Privacy Notices for more information about our lawful basis for processing your personal data and HMRC's use of AI.

If you don't want your data to be used as part of the trial, please send your Application ID and the Vacancy Reference to talentacquisitionaiteam@hmrc.gov.uk

Terms and Conditions

Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.

HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations .

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.

Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.

Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.

If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window) .

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : RIS Recruitment Service - Pod 2 - LJ
• Email : risrecruitmentservice@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk

Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of the Recruitment Principles.
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via ubsrecruitmentcomplaints@hmrc.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.

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