Lead Intelligence Manager: Compliance and Assurance - Newport

Lead Intelligence Manager: Compliance and Assurance - Newport

About the job

Job summary

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The U.K. Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the government agency responsible for patents, designs, trademark and copy right. The Rights, Policy & Enforcement Directorate support holders of all IP rights by engaging with law enforcement agencies to assist in the enforcement of those rights.

The IPO Intelligence & Law Enforcement Team (ILET) is a key part of this, with nationally trained and accredited staff working to provide intelligence on criminal IP infringement to law enforcement agencies and other government agency partners.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the ILET as a Lead Intelligence Manager Compliance and Assurance. In this role you will, jointly with colleagues, be responsible for providing day-to-day, first line management of the new Compliance & Assurance function for the ILET, ensuring that all intelligence and investigatory work is conducted in a legally compliant and proportionate manner.

Working location
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport office.

The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Job description

Key Duties of the role consist of, but are not limited to:

• Lead on the development and implementation of policies and standard operational procedures (SOPs) in line with law, regulation, and guidance.
• Lead on the ILETs use of the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) and ensure its compliance, adherence to best practise and the quality of its applications.
• Lead on the negotiation and creation of all ILETs legal data sharing agreements and Data Protection Impact Assessments required for the acquisition and handling of data and Intelligence with external partners.
• Be responsible for the ILET's contribution to the Register of Processing Activity (ROPA).
• Lead on all Review Retain and Dispose (RRD) processes for ILET including liaison with the KIM Team and IPO Secure.
• Be responsible for all the ILET Vetting requirements and including ensuring that the ILET vetting register is up to date.
• Identify and co-ordinate all training requirements for the Intelligence and Law Enforcement team, maintaining a central training record to ensure all professional accreditations are kept up to date.
• Engage with external partners to acquire access to Intelligence systems and data sources and maintain all licensing requirements for data sets and software for the ILET.
• Implement quality assurance standards across the Intelligence & Law Enforcement team relating to intelligence security and practice in accordance with law, regulation, and guidance.
• With ILET colleagues undertake internal audits, reviews, and inspections of the operational use of Intelligence; report findings and work with colleagues to resolve any issues and risks.
• In liaison with other operational and departmental leads, provide appropriate responses to recommendations made in respect of external inspections, reviews, audits and legal or regulatory proceedings.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance on the application of legislation to the conduct of intelligence development and investigations, including such legislation as: the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, The Investigatory Powers Act 2016, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Enterprise Act 2002, and the Human Rights Act 1998.

Person specification

Please refer to job description.

Additional Information
Please confirm that you have (or are willing to work towards) College of Policing IPP Accreditation in an intelligence management role.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,482, Intellectual Property Office contributes £12,886 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

When working at the IPO you can also expect:

• A flexible working scheme with excellent development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments (1 day per year) over 5 years of reckonable service. You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave
• Family friendly policies that support modern working families and individuals with caring responsibilities
• A variety of support functions; Staff Counselling Service, Peer to Peer Support Group
• Eligibility for special and office-wide bonus payments
• The opportunity to form part of our many inclusive network groups, find out more by looking at Intellectual Property Office (IPO) (diversityjobsgroup.com)
• A range of wellbeing initiatives; Onsite Gym (Newport office), Eye Care Scheme, Volunteering Programme, Cycling facilities
• Free car parking is available on site at our Newport office
• On-site shop, restaurant and coffee shop at our Newport office

For more information about what's on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert.

Please note that benefits may be subject to change.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Additional details on security and vetting
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance.

For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.

Further information on the vetting process can be found at United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK ( www.gov.uk ).

If you have questions regarding this or are unsure if you meet the eligibility criteria, please contact Recruitment@ipo.gov.uk .

How to apply

Candidates to note:

• In order to capture your employment history please complete the employment history box under the 'Your CV' section of the online application form.
• All communications will be electronic therefore it is vitally important that you check your Civil Service Jobs account regularly, as well as your spam/junk email folder

Sift
An initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist.

This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements:

Experience
When completing your 750-word Personal Statement, please explain your suitability for this role by summarising your relevant knowledge and experience in the fields of:

• Providing specialist advice and guidance on the application of intelligence relevant to lawful data sharing in the conduct of intelligence development and investigations.
• Building and maintaining trusted, inclusive relationships with partner agencies to share intelligence and data.
• Understanding of current intelligence techniques, including those relating to the Investigatory Powers Act and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act - the application process, use of and associated best practice.
• Implementing quality assurance standards across law enforcement intelligence and investigation teams relating to intelligence security and practise in accordance with law, regulation, and best practise.

Interviews
If invited to interview Behaviours, Experience and Strengths based questioning will be used.

Behaviours
The above behaviours will be assessed at interview along with the below:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions

Experience
Candidates that proceed to the interview stage will be required to deliver a presentation. Details will be provided in the invite to interview information.

Strengths
Strengths are the things that we do regularly, do well and that motivate us. We have selected the Strengths that are relevant for this role from the Civil Service Strengths Dictionary. You will be assessed against these during your interview using strength-based interview questions.

Interviews for this role will be carried out virtually via Microsoft Teams (video).

IMPORTANT: CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.

The successful candidate would be expected to remain in the role for a minimum of 12 months before applying for another role.

If you require job-specific information, please contact:
Name: Peter Hewson
Email: peter.hewson@ipo.gov.uk
Telephone: 01633 433196

For further information around the Civil Service recruitment process, please visit our civil service careers page - IPO - Recruitment Support , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

Applicants to note: This post is being advertised to Internal, across Government and external candidates at the same time.

Incomplete and/or late submissions will not be accepted or considered.

Should you have any queries or require any assistance in please contact the IPO Recruitment team at Recruitment@ipo.gov.uk prior to the closing of the post.

In line with Government guidance, successfully appointed candidates will need to provide documents for our Right to Work checks. Information on this will be sent within the invite to interview text.

If you require an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, then please let the recruitment team know via ; recruitment@ipo.gov.uk

For more information on the IPO's terms and conditions, please review the attached IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions document attached at the bottom of this advert.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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 security check (opens in a new window) .

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .

Location: UK, GB

Posted Date: 10/29/2024