Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2EA
Job Summary
As an important part of the Ministry of Defence, Defence Intelligence (DI) provides intelligence analysis, specialist outputs and advice that supports decision making across government. At the heart of DI is the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI).
One key area of the organisation is the Defence Open Source Intelligence Centre (DOC) who provide specialist and advanced, pioneering Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to the Armed Forces and other Partners Across Government (PAG) through the Online Research Collection and Analysis (ORCA) Team.
In Defence Intelligence (DI) our people solve problems, create understanding and give perspective to the diverse and complex Defence threats and challenges in a rapidly changing world. Together our civilians and military personnel inform decision making in Defence, manage complex finance programmes and develop new technology.
In DI we believe your unique experiences, view and understanding of the world could provide a vital perspective and contribution to our work. We recognise that great minds do not think alike and are striving to increase our diversity representation at all levels. As an equal opportunities employer we hire, train and promote people based on merit and inspire to create an inclusive workplace free of discrimination. We also offer flexible working arrangements such as flexi-time, job share and compressed hours.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
The purpose of the ORCA is to produce and disseminate timely, relevant and credible open source reports, informing and developing understanding around multiple intelligence problem-sets, for a range of key intelligence customers.
The ORCA team operates in a constantly evolving environment that’s subject to rapid change. Analysts adapt and develop strategies to deliver timely and in-depth OSINT reports, often applying a trade craft intensive approach that goes above and beyond. As such, the intelligence requirements undertaken by ORCA are to challenge the capability, ensuring Defence’s OSINT capability remains at the forefront alongside our OSINT partners and allies.
As an ORCA Lead Analyst you will be responsible for standards and the output of your team, this will require directing all collection requirements amongst your team of analysts, quality checking their reports, mentoring analysts to enhance standards and the service we provide, and disseminating reports to customers. The position affords opportunities to visit, engage and brief various partners across Defence and wider Government, locally across the UK and abroad.
You will develop and enhance the OSINT capability, working closely with the DOC and industry partners to test and trial new or existing OSINT capabilities that enable DOC to maintain and improve the OSINT service provided to the Defence user community.
This role has line management responsibility for 2 civilian staff and supervisory responsibility for up to 6 military staff.
Person Specification
We are seeking confident communicators, comfortable engaging with a diverse range of individuals and teams both within their own and external organisations. Individuals with the want and ability to build and maintain positive relationships, collaborating to improve and drive the capability forward.
Strong verbal and written skills are vital as is having a high degree of digital literacy.
The successful candidate will need to have strong organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise, work to specific timeframes, producing accurate well-thought-out communications which are adapted to suit customer needs and provide the relevant information clearly and concisely.
This position will almost certainly expose individuals to graphic and distressing material online. Due to the nature of publicly available information, measures are taken to protect individuals, mitigating the risk where possible, and ensuring support is always available.
Operational needs may require the ORCA to support OSINT production outside normal working hours and this can include working weekends, evenings or early mornings or as part of a shift pattern. This would be subject to overtime or 'time off in lieu' arrangements being agreed and is entirely voluntary. Typical working pattern will be subject to typical daytime hours and subject to NCGI flexible working hours arrangement.
Essential Criteria
* Experience of OSINT capabilities and outputs and an understanding of how OSINT is collected and used.
* Knowledge of OSINT technology, innovation, data and data visualisation.
* Experienced in using online data sources for investigations, understanding biases, censorship, mis and disinformation.
* Awareness of Defence OSINT policy and legislation.
* Ability to brief at short notice to a range of partners, informing them of Defence’s OSINT capability.
* Proficient and confident with Microsoft Office.
* Able to adapt to evolving workloads, short notice tasks and delivering outputs to meet specific customer requirements.
Desirable Criteria
* Skills in coding and programming.
* Linguist ability - any languages welcome.
Behaviours
* Developing Self and Others
* Leadership
* Seeing the Big Picture
Technical Skills
* Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) Gathering, Organising and Evaluating intelligence & information - Level Proficient
* Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) Verbal Communication of Intelligence Assessment - Level Proficient
Application/Interview Scoring System
NCGI adopts a scoring system of 1-7 for Behaviours, Technical skills, and Experience.
* 7 - The evidence provided wholly exceeds expectation at this level
* 6 - Substantial positive evidence; includes some evidence of exceeding expectations at this level
* 5 - Substantial positive evidence of the competency or behaviour
* 4 - Adequate positive evidence and any negative evidence would not cause concern
* 3 - Moderate positive evidence but some negative evidence demonstrated
* 2 - Limited positive evidence and/or mainly negative evidence demonstrated
* 1 - No positive evidence and/or substantial negative evidence demonstrated
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.
Nationality Requirements
Open to UK nationals only.
Contact Point for Applicants
* Name: NCGI Recruitment Team
* Email: UKStratCom-DI-NCGI-Recruitment@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment Team
* Email: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
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