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The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) is the UKs cross government organisation for maritime security. JMSC provides expert advice and support to government (including the Devolved Administrations and Crown Dependencies) on maritime security, including maritime related threat, operational capability and response mechanisms.
JMSC comprises operational, information and assessment elements. The Operations Centre provides 24/7 awareness of the UKs maritime asset distribution and ensures a coordinated and whole-system response to maritime security incidents at sea. It contributes to the integrity of UK waters and the mitigation of threats at sea by informing operational decision making. On behalf of government, The JMSC Operations centre also owns multi-agency CONOPs and delivers a joint exercising calendar. Watchkeepers are a key element of this team. The National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC) is the multi-agency construct that enables joint operational activity, information sharing and collaboration. NMIC contributes to the UKs maritime domain awareness and understanding of maritime threats at home and overseas. The Assessment Team forms an assessment hub which coheres UK and global maritime security threat intelligence consolidation and orchestrates whole system understanding. Working seamlessly with a range of external organisations, JMSC chairs the NMSC(O) Threat Steering Group. Assessment standards are compliant with the Cabinet Office Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA).
JMSC is led by Head JMSC (Hd/JMSC) who is accountable to the Joint Governance Board (JGB), comprising sponsors from Home Office, Department for Trade and Ministry of Defence. They are also accountable to the National Maritime Security Committee (Officials) (NMSC(O)).
As a Lead Analyst within the JMSC Sanctions Team, the postholder will report to and take direction from the Assistant Director (Sanctions Team) to deliver analysis and understanding relating to Russian activity to avoid sanctions, in accordance with His Majestys Treasury (HMT), Department for Transport (DfT) and JMSC strategic and operational priorities.
The successful candidate will manage and direct the activities of their respective HEO Analyst(s).
This work is at the cutting-edge of delivering cross-government maritime security threat assessments in support of delivering the JMSC Mandate. It offers a challenging opportunity to join a collaborative assessment and operational community and participate in developing decision-support to the UK Government. Strategic analysts will be able to collate and cohere sanctions-related understanding from across the national and international intelligence communities, fusing it into authoritative assessments to inform decision-making and to influence sanctions enforcement activity at all levels.
Please note that not all work patterns can be supported within this role, successful candidates should discuss work patterns with the vacancy holder ahead of accepting any offer. Due to funding, this role will be offered on a 2-year fixed term appointment only.
Person specification
The successful candidate should have the following qualities:
- Are self-starters who can work effectively under pressure, take responsibility for delivery, and works collaboratively with others to achieve the Teams objectives.
- Are able to build effective stakeholder relationships and understand operational pressures across the JMSC and its stakeholders.
- Have strong communication skills.
- Are adaptable and responsive and sensitive to a changing political environment.
- Can prioritise workload needs.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Understanding, articulating and helping drive forward HMT, DFT and JMSC Sanctions Team priorities, and in turn, supporting the wider business to deliver the JMSC Mandate.
- Providing strong support to the Assistant Director (Sanctions Team) across the full range of assessment duties including day to day and urgent, high profile or sensitive issues.
- Proactively taking responsibility for engaging, delivering outcomes, and resolving issues.
- Providing high quality, succinct, timely and accurate, advice and briefings.
- Maintaining an overview of issues affecting wider JMSC activity.
- Drafting and delivering high-quality, sanctions-related assessments and presentations to satisfy routine and ad hoc assessment requirements.
- Maintaining and building enduring links with national and international intelligence counterparts, to understand sanctions-related activity.
- Building an exhaustive knowledge and understanding of sanctions activity.
Essential Criteria
- Have previously applied highly proficient analytical skills independently to complex work, with minimal supervision.
- Be able to exercise judgement in selecting the best approach to achieve the task while meeting existing standards and procedures.
- Be able to negotiate priorities and deadlines and tailor your approach to best meet them.
- Understand how your work and the work of your team can assist and inform JMSC objectives and UK Government sanctions-related understanding.
- Keep up to date with sanctions-related affairs and take a keen interest in expanding knowledge.
- Understand the legal framework for Sanctions action.
- Develop strong stakeholder relationships, both domestically and internationally with a view to building enduring and collaborative analytical partnerships.
- Use creative and critical thinking in analysis and research to support assessments, applying structured methods to explain how verdicts have been reached.
- Articulate thought processes and complex matters concisely, visually, verbally and in writing.
Desirable Criteria
- An ability to routinely review effort and outputs, taking the initiative to appropriately challenge and suggest improvements.
- Understanding or experience of the maritime environment or maritime sanctions.
- Understand your areas of responsibility and display awareness of the wider impact of your actions.
- Experience in working with multiple stakeholders.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
As part of the application process, you will first be asked to confirm your eligibility by providing some basic personal information.
After submission of this first stage, you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Management Judgement Test. If you successfully pass this test, you will then be invited to complete the full application form. Please complete the online test as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the test and full application form is 23:55 on 18th September 2023. If you fail to complete the online test or full application before the deadline, your application will be withdrawn.
Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the tests. The test are administered online and accessed via the Civil Service Jobs website.
You CANNOT complete the test on a mobile phone or tablet.
Following successful completion of the test, you will then be asked to complete:
- A CV detailing job history/skills
- A statement of suitability (personal statement) (maximum 750 words)
- Provide evidence of the lead behaviour Seeing the Big Picture (250 words maximum)
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
The Statement of Suitability should be aligned to demonstrate your skills and experience for the role and how you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job description.
For guidance on how to construct your personal statement, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links Statement
For guidance on how to construct your behaviour examples, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links Behaviours
The sift will be held on the lead behaviour Seeing the Big Picture and the Statement of Suitability (personal statement). The CV will not be scored.
However, if a large number of applications are received, the sift will be conducted on the Statement of Suitability (personal statement) only.
The Statement of Suitability will be scored first for all candidates. Those candidates who achieve the minimum pass score for the Statement of Suitability, will progress to a further sift where the lead behaviour Seeing the Big Picture will be scored. These candidates will therefore receive a sift score for both elements. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the Statement of Suitability will not have their lead behaviour scored and will therefore only receive a sift score for the Statement of Suitability.
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview which will be a blended approach of strength-based questions and behaviour-based questions, as listed on the advert.
Strengths are the things that you do regularly, do well and that motivate you. To find out more about strength based questions click here.
Sift and Interview dates
Sift is expected to take place week commencing 18th September 2023.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 9th October 2023.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert, however on occasions these dates may change.
Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:
- A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
- Good internet connection
- Skype for Business/Microsoft Teams
Further information
For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Note for Candidates:
Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. All applications are screened for plagiarism and copying of examples/answers from internet sources. If any is detected the application will be withdrawn from the process. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.
If you are currently an agency member of staff working within the Home Office, a contractor or contingent worker you can only apply for roles that are advertised externally, i.e. outside the civil service. If you are eligible to apply for a role, you are required to select yourself as an external applicant and not internal when submitting your application on Civil Service jobs. This will prevent any delays in pre-employment checks should you become successful in being made an offer of employment after the Interview stage.
If you are considering applying for part time hours, please contact HORCCampaignTeamBorderForce@homeoffice.gov.uk to discuss your request as not all working patterns may be accommodated.
Please note, DV clearance is a requirement for this role.
Additional Security Checks
As well as successfully obtaining UKSV clearance and passing the right to work and pre-employment screening, anyone who applies to work for Border Force will also be subject to additional Border Force specific security checks to determine their suitability to work for the organisation.
Please see the Home Office Recruitment Privacy Information Notice (PIN) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recruitment-privacy-information-notice for more information on how your details may be shared for the purpose of additional security checks.
Hybrid working may be an option
Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow. Applicants can discuss what this means with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointment may be made.
Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.
We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
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.
For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.
Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidates responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.
Transfer Terms: Voluntary.
If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.
Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.
Any move to the Home Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
Additional Security Checks: As well as successfully obtaining UKSV clearance and passing the right to work and pre-employment screening, anyone who applies to work for Border Force will also be subject to additional Border Force specific security checks, as part of the pre-employment process, to determine their suitability to work for the organisation.
Please see the Home Office Recruitment Privacy Information Notice (PIN) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recruitment-privacy-information-notice for more information on how your details may be shared for the purpose of additional security checks.
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.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
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the Contact point for applicants section.
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- Email : HORCBandENational@homeoffice.gov.uk
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