HQ Job Description (JD)
Band 9
Directorate: Security, Order and Counter-Terrorism
Job Description - Intelligence Unit Manager
Document Ref.
HQ-JES-2069 Intelligence Unit Manager v2.0
Document Type
Management
Version
2.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
12 February 2021
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
HQ-JES-2069 Intelligence Unit Manager v2.0
Job Description
Job Title
Intelligence Unit Manager
Directorate
Security, Order and Counter-Terrorism
Band
9
Overview of the job
This role sits within the National Intelligence Unit (NIU) within the Security, Order
and Counter-Terrorism Directorate of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service
(HMPPS).
The NIU is a growing function of 150 staff compromising 5 Regional Units and 6
National Units. This role will be a senior leader across one of these Regional or
National units and will be responsible for all activity in their respective unit, as well
as line managing a number of Band 7s and Band 8s dependant on the role.
The post holder will either report into the Head of National Services and
Assessments or the Head of Intelligence Operations, and may be required to
deputise for either of these positions as is required.
The Unit provides an intelligence service to HMPPS and partners to inform decisions
on managing and mitigating risks and threats posed by offenders under our statutory
supervision. Our ambition is to reach all parts of HMPPS and to change the culture of
our organisation so that asking for the intelligence picture is second nature.
Our purpose is to help prisons, probation offices and Approved Premises stay safe
and secure. We want to give offenders under our supervision in custody and in the
community the best possible chance of turning their lives around. To do this we
need to use intelligence so we can take action to make it harder for offenders to
commit crime whilst under our supervision and reduce the likelihood that they will
commit further crimes when they complete their sentence.
The post may be based at Headquarters (London) or in any of the Regional
Intelligence Unit offices in England and Wales.
The post has no operational requirement. However knowledge of prisons and
probation operations and/or law enforcement operations is required.
The post holder should also have experience of managing an intelligence service or
acting as a senior customer for intelligence.
Summary
This post would suit a candidate with a strong track record in managing
geographically dispersed teams to deliver a high quality and consistent level of
service.
The post holder will need to provide leadership and direction for their respective
National or Regional Unit, including potentially Operational, Analytical and Policy
staff. This leadership post will capture the best of our operating practice and mould
it into our core service offer, from which we can test and then embed further
services or new ways of working.
The post holder will need to quickly get to grips with the varied and evolving
intelligence capabilities and functions within HMPPS and in law enforcement
partners. An ability, therefore, to hold a significant degree of complexity and
ambiguity will be required as the National Intelligence Unit and wider HMPPS
Intelligence operating model is developed.
HQ-JES-2069 Intelligence Unit Manager v2.0
The post holder will need to work in partnership with a wide range of internal and
external partners to overcome both practical and cultural barriers to joint working.
The post holder will therefore require excellent communication skills to engage with
a wide range of partners at senior levels within HMPPS, with law enforcement
partners, and the wider intelligence community.
37 hour working week and some of these positions will attract the RHA payment of
17% in addition to the basic salary due to the nature of the work which will include
working hours outside of core to deal with urgent Threats to Life, provide tactical
advice on National Security Matters and be part of an on-call rota meaning work will
often have to be completed in evenings and on weekends.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities
Activities and Duties
and duties:
? Taking lead responsibility for developing one or more elements of the
Intelligence Unit operating model, as well as contributing to the design
overall. The operating model will include intelligence management systems,
procedures, standardised products, standard ‘tasking and coordination’
mechanisms, a quality assurance programme (for analytical work and
information handling), and a system to monitor the impact of intelligence
analytical work.
? The smooth running of intelligence management and development
processes, including strategic and tactical ‘tasking and coordination’
meetings within your area.
? The delivery of quality assured intelligence analytical products for your
area, in relation to ‘high priority’ offenders, offending groups or security
vulnerabilities.
? Providing advice and professional guidance to intelligence managers and
analysts in your area (including those outside your line management), as
well as to law enforcement partners, possibly including sensitive
intelligence feeds.
? Contributing to the development of intelligence policies, and providing
guidance to support the effective implementation of policy.
? Deliver a new capability to assist the National Probation Service with
intelligence development and the appropriate use of intelligence as part of
the risk assessment process to support risk management decisions.
? Building and maintaining productive working relationships with senior
internal and external stakeholders, facilitating effective flows of information
between national and local intelligence mechanisms, and with intelligence
partners.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not
intended to be exhaustive. The role is new and developing. The job holder is
therefore expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar
level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination
under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the
job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium
of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Behaviours
? Changing and Improving
? Managing a Quality Service
? Delivering at Pace
? Working Together
? Leadership
? Communicating and Influencing
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
HQ-JES-2069 Intelligence Unit Manager v2.0
Ability
? The post holder must act with the highest levels of personal and professional
integrity and champion these qualities in others. They must be vetted to
Developed Vetting (DV) standards and the post is reserved for UK nationals.
Experience
? A proven track record of leading teams in a complex environment with
multiple stakeholders leveraging competing priorities.
? Knowledge of intelligence structures, working practices and operating
environment of HMPPS and law enforcement partners.
Technical
Minimum Eligibility
Please do not alter this box
? All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.
? All external candidates are subject to 6 months’ probation. Internal candidates are
subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within
HMPPS.
? All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or
organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work
Required Hours Allowance
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
This role requires regularly working unpredictable and unsocial hours and be on call
to respond to incidents at any time. A 17% payment will be paid in addition to your
basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 - 1900hrs
Monday to Friday and include evenings, nights, weekends and Bank/Public holidays.
HQ-JES-2069 Intelligence Unit Manager v2.0
Success Profile
Strengths
Behaviours
It is advised strengths are
Ability
Experience
Technical
chosen locally,
recommended 4-8
Changing and Improving
The post holder must act with the
A proven track record of leading
highest levels of personal and
teams in a complex environment
professional integrity and
with multiple stakeholders
champion these qualities in others.
leveraging competing priorities.
They must be vetted to Developed
Vetting (DV) standards and the
post is reserved for UK nationals.
Managing a Quality Service
Knowledge of intelligence
structures, working practices and
operating environment of HMPPS
and law enforcement partners.
Delivering at Pace
Working Together
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
HQ-JES-2069 Intelligence Unit Manager v2.0