Are you interested in safeguarding the public purse? Are you motivated to deliver the right outcomes in challenging situations? DWP could be the place for you. This is a hugely important public service, and our challenge is bigger than ever.
You will be at the forefront of tackling serious and organised crimes against DWP which often has links into wider criminality of modern slavery, human trafficking, and identity fraud. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Counter Fraud and Compliance Directorate (CFCD) on a team committed to tackling fraud encountered through our Economic, Serious and Organised Crime (ESOC) team.
You will work across multi law enforcement agencies on high profile and serious fraud operations involving many suspects in multi-million-pound criminality.
DWP Economic, Serious and Organised Crime (ESOC) Strategy compliments and aligns with the Home Office SOC Strategy. Its objectives are to:
* Maintain a clear and coherent intelligence picture of the threat to inform our investigations, capability development and protect and prevent strategies.
* Promote our successful operations both internally and externally to deter and prevent further criminality.
* Exploit a range of data sources to identify and respond to threats.
* Engage with stakeholders across DWP, HMG, Law Enforcement, and partners to shape policy, operations, and capability development.
* Maintain and invest in our capabilities to stay ahead of the threat.
What you will be doing as an Economic, Serious and Organised Crime Regional Leader:
* Role model exceptional leadership, working flexibly across boundaries, building capability, and undertaking regular activity to build and sustain engagement.
* Provide transformational leadership to the team and beyond – inspiring colleagues through demanding situations, transforming performance, and building high performing teams.
* Play a key role as a member of the Senior Leadership team to deliver and shape the direction of ESOC, working flexibly and at pace in a complex in a fast-moving environment.
* Through your behaviour and role modelling, strive to make ESOC an inclusive place where people can be their best. By inspiring and empowering the Leadership Teams to lead their people and deliver ESOC strategic and business objectives and priorities.
* Drive people engagement across the team, setting ambitious standards for people leadership throughout the business.
* Communicating at all levels and across the unit to personally lead culture change, fostering and embedding a climate of staff development and continual professional development, for yourself and teams.
* Provide visible, accessible and effective senior leadership, taking a personal lead in communicating messages with clarity and conviction across your own team and with other colleagues. Seeking feedback from colleagues, listening and acting on this.
* Co-ordinate the development of business-critical relationships, internally and with key partners and stakeholders e.g. law enforcement agencies. Working cross government to deliver national initiatives combatting serious and organised crime, including human trafficking and modern slavery.
Responsibilities
You will be accountable for creating an environment to support the delivery of excellent, high-quality service and performance nationally across a number of sites/geographical areas.
In addition, ensuring work is prioritised to meet changing demands and that colleagues are supported with excellent training and guidance.
You will be responsible for driving performance in investigations and other activities to protect the public purse and disrupt organised crime groups at the earliest opportunity, including supporting the Senior Investigating Officer in large or high-profile operations.
You will oversee high quality investigations targeted at the highest harm threats leading to judicial outcomes, disruptions, and asset recovery.
You will oversee high quality investigations targeted at the highest harm threats leading to judicial outcomes, disruptions, and asset recovery.
You will be accountable for the management of investigations, performance and service delivery within their teams, undertaking regular performance reviews, identifying risks to performance achievement and driving forward continuous improvement. You will provide leadership and make effective use of resources to ensure organisational objectives and performance targets are met.
The post will either be responsible for leading Financial Investigations (Criminal and Civil), exploitation of reports from the National Crime Agency, Intelligence and Criminal Analyst teams across England, Scotland and Wales and is responsible for assisting the development and delivery of our approach to Civil Powers, and Crypto assets.
Or leading Criminal Investigations into Serious and Organised crime and have responsibility for assisting the development and delivery of our Criminal powers announced in the 2022 Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System policy paper.
As work streams change and DWP reacts to the changing behaviours in criminal activity, ESOC must keep pace with modern methods of criminality, this includes the increase in Money Laundering activity and the use of crypto currencies to mask monies derived from fraudulent activity.
You will work nationally to manage Economic, Serious and Organised Crime investigations with a range of skills to respond to operational requirements and deliver a complex area of work, utilising a range of investigative techniques and delivering to the appropriate legislative standards and policies.
You will be responsible for overseeing multifaceted investigations into Economic, Serious and Organised Crime. These Operations will involve collaboration with other parts of ESOC, wider DWP and external partners, and will also require that teams have comprehensive strategies in place to consider, for example, the use of covert surveillance or the use of Digital Media evidence obtained in investigations.
Work streams can change quickly, so successful candidates will need to manage competing priorities, for example resources, during the management of Operations. This could include managing Operations involving large scale attacks, high priority National threats, smaller Operations such Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking and partnership working with counterparts in Regional Organised Crime Units.
The successful candidate will work jointly with other CFCD teams, delivering high quality operations and making significant contributions to delivery of Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) savings, and oversee the prosecution of the perpetrators of Serious and Organised frauds.
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