C2/SEO Training Lead: Criminal Investigation

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.

Our Investigation & Enforcement Services Directorate (IES) aims to deliver and promote a range of investigation and enforcement activities both civil and criminal in nature, to tackle financial wrongdoing. We do this by enforcing the statutory company and insolvency regimes, maintaining public confidence in those regimes, and reducing the harm caused to victims of fraudulent activity and to the business community. IES contributes to the agency’s objective of ‘delivering economic confidence’ in the main by ‘tackling financial wrongdoing’ and does so in close cooperation with colleagues from our Official Receiver Services and Legal Services Directorates.

As a result of recent changes to legislation and separately, an expansion in our remit to support a cross-government  anti-money laundering priority, over the next two years we will be substantially growing our criminal investigation and intelligence capability.

This is a new training lead role within IES that has been created to build the resilience we will require to grow these functions. Supported by and reporting to one of our Chief  Investigators for Criminal Investigations, the post-holder will have responsibility for designing, developing and implementing a new training strategy to support our criminal investigators, managers and intelligence analysts. 

Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups under-represented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 7 employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include LGBT+, FACES, Break the Stigma, Disability & Health, Part Time Workers, Women’s, and Carers.

We offer part-time, full-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.

The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career.

This is a new and exciting post within IES, in which you will have the opportunity to influence and shape our learning programme, playing a part in ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of technical training across our criminal investigation and potentially our wider investigative  disciplines.

You will be responsible for ensuring that our criminal investigators, managers and leaders have the capability we need to deliver our business priorities as these functions grow.

You will work with colleagues across the agency, notably   investigation leads within our crime discipline, the directorate business development team and People & Communication directorate partners in Capability and the Business Partnering teams.

The post will also provide an opportunity to liaise with colleagues from other parts of the Civil Service, to ensure that what we deliver is aligned with Government Counter Fraud Profession (GCFP) standards and wider Civil Service requirements.

This role would suit someone who has experience in developing discrete areas of learning within the criminal investigative discipline. 

The successful candidate will have  the opportunity to:

• Lead and have responsibility for the design and implementation of the training strategy, developing a  strategy document and a roadmap to set out how the directorate will achieve its plan
• Introduce trainee and/or apprentice training courses for criminal investigators and potentially across our wider investigation teams   
• Develop, administer and secure the delivery of in-house technical training, ensuring that all training developed meets the CPD training requirements for our criminal investigators
• You will be working with colleagues at all levels within IES and peers across the agency to ensure there is access to learning opportunities which will enable colleagues to take forward their own professional, career and personal development
• Creating and updating materials and guidance as required for the ongoing development and successful delivery of our  training programme for criminal investigators
• Work with business leads and subject matter experts to identify technical training requirement and develop bespoke training  courses and seminars
• Developing and undertaking quality assurance, standardisation and continual evaluation activities in relation to our  training regime
• Sourcing training through external partners and liaising with providers and internal/external presenters as to the delivery of courses
• Providing support and advice to learners and assessors/ line managers (e.g. facilitating learner support events) to ensure learners have the maximum opportunity for successful completion of their probation and learning programme
• Working with the training budget holder and Finance Business Partner to prioritise training activity and monitor training spend against budget

The post is full time. However, part time applicants will be considered subject to a minimum 30 hours per work, which is considered the minimum required to meet the demands of the role. 

Essential skills:

• Experience of having designed or delivered a training strategy or programme  
• Knowledge of criminal investigation best practice, including CPIA and and disclosure requirements 
• Ability to respond quickly, flexibly and effectively to tight deadlines, including an ability to handle multiple competing workstreams
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to engage, challenge and influence senior managers and internal stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Well developed presentation or representation skills with a willingness to present at or facilitate training events 
• Project management skills and/or excellent planning and coordinating skills

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

We want you have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do so we offer a great benefits package:

• Flexible working arrangements and flexi-time.
• Full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. 
• In addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave. 
• Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave. 
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life.
• A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where the employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. For more information, visit www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk

Job contact :

• Name : GRS Insolvency Service Recruitment Team
• Email : InsolvencyRecruitment.GRS@cabbinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : InsolvencyRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk