SIOs are responsible for the intelligence output of their team, maintaining professional standards to ensure the highest possible production standards are being achieved. You will make sure output is maximised and accessible by the appropriate national and international partners, ensuring that the excellent work that your team produces has an impact.
SIOs also provide professional GEOINT advice, expertise and guidance to a range of colleagues and partners across Defence and wider Government.
As a manager of civil servants and military staff, SIOs will be expected to provide leadership, mentoring, and technical expertise to their teams, ensuring that analytical effort is most efficiently apportioned to tasks and ensuring customer requirements are being met through regular engagement.
Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Act as the lead point of contact for GEOINT tasking in accordance with prioritised requirements, representing GEOINT concerns at key meetings and engagements to ensure production levels and dissemination methods are appropriate.
Dedicate time to mentoring and developing junior analysts within their team, on topic specific IMINT expertise and tradecraft. This includes encouraging and guiding analysts seeking new opportunities to improve their skills and output.
Demonstrate and promote, within the team, a detailed awareness of modern and innovative GEOINT business, IMINT tradecraft, collection sources, tools, and procedures.
Support the evaluation, development and adoption of new techniques or capabilities, making valuable contributions to the intelligence community through opportunities provided by the IMINT Capability Lead.
Initiate and develop professional working relationships with the relevant Communities of Interest (CoI). Encourage analysts to undertake co-production/joint reporting where relevant with a range of partners.
Ensure that all imagery/geospatial analysts actively participate in their respective CoIs and can develop and work with a range of contacts, providing fused and integrated products, in addition to single source GEOINT, as required.
Identify and highlight emerging intelligence gaps relevant to Defence.
The SIO will be an IMINT Releasing Officer, ensuring all intelligence output is aligned with extant policies and direction in terms of quality, format, and timeliness.
Provide local team tasking oversight, leadership, and personnel management.
In 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.
All jobs advertised in DI are subject to fair and open competition.
(Remote working within this role is something that can be discussed at interview stages or with your future line manager if you are found successful.)