Intelligence Officer
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Job summary
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Home Office Intelligence brings together a number of existing teams involved in the collection and analysis of border and immigration related intelligence. It delivers Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watchlisting capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement. Learn more on the HO Intelligence careers page.
Home Office Intelligence (HOI) was established in November 2021, merging Immigration Intelligence and Border Force Intelligence to form a unified entity with the mission of protecting the UK from harm. HOI delivers a broad range of intelligence products to tackle immigration and border priority threats, using data-driven methods to identify and assess potential risks.
The Directorate is composed of around 1,650 personnel within the UK and an additional 260 individuals embedded globally across over 40 countries. The team’s remit is to deliver Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watch listing capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement.
Job description
The Home Office Intelligence Sensitive Intelligence Unit (HOI-SIU) is part of the Sensitive Intelligence Network (SIN) across law enforcement. The HOI-SIU is a busy, challenging environment, with a remit to develop and disseminate high grade sensitive intelligence to support investigation of Organised Immigration Crime, working in partnership with Immigration Intelligence units, Criminal and Financial Investigations teams and other Law Enforcement Agencies.
The Specialist Intelligence Command is responsible for gathering and developing intelligence on organised crime groups involved in Organised Immigration Crime (OIC), to initiate new criminal investigations and support existing investigations in the UK and overseas. This includes management and oversight of the use of specialist and covert intelligence techniques, and engagement with appropriate partners and stakeholders. The teams also support Frontline Enforcement work to address all immigration abuse.
The post of Intelligence Officer within the unit involves gathering, managing and analysing a large amount of often complex information from a variety of sensitive sources and turning it into meaningful, timely and useable high value intelligence in support of operations and investigations.
The Intelligence Officer post in HOI-SIU also requires you to act as Duty Officer managing a busy and often pressurised inbox and other workstreams where requests for information/intelligence can be urgent/ high harm cases that require quick and accurate responses.
The post involves a high degree of engagement with internal and external partners. The post offers excellent opportunities for development of skills within the sensitive intelligence arena.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop and embed a wide range of people and engagement skills within a high performing team, delivering what is required to continue to make the team a great place to work and to support staff and senior managers in delivery.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Handling sensitive intelligence in line with standard operating procedures.
- Paralleling information from sensitive intelligence tactics, thereby turning sensitive intelligence into usable intelligence reports.
- Creating and disseminating intelligence reports.
- Conducting intelligence research across a wide variety of intelligence databases and other sources of intelligence.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
- Developing intelligence investigations.
- Supporting covert operations.
Please Note: DV clearance is required to work within the SIU.
In addition, STRAP clearance will also be required.
Training
You will be an enthusiastic team player and willing to learn. You will need to be resilient, as the role may be particularly busy whilst supporting covert operations.
Please note there will be a requirement to attend appropriate training courses, which may be residential.
You will also be expected to achieve IPP accreditation as an Intelligence Officer within a reasonable timeframe.
Working patterns
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
Successful candidates will need to be able to attend for all shifts including early starts and late night finishes. These shifts may be outside of public transport operating hours.
Travel
Occasional travel will be required for meetings and to attend courses.
Person specification
Essential criteria
You must be able to demonstrate:
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Good organisational skills.
- Enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
- The ability to problem solve.
Desirable criteria:
- Experience of working in an intelligence or investigative role.
- A good understanding of intelligence processes and legislation.
- Experience of working in Immigration Enforcement or Border Force.
- Experience of handling sensitive intelligence.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Working Together
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
- This role currently attracts Annualised Hours Allowance (AHA) of around 19% of salary, which equates to approximately £6,460 per annum based on salary minimum. Further information can be found on our website.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.
1. Application – by 15th July 2025
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
- A CV.
- Personal Statement (maximum 500 words).
- Evidence of the Behaviour Working Together (maximum of 250 words).
Your CV should consist of your career history and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
2. Sift – week commencing 28th July 2025
The sift will be held on the CV, Personal Statement and the Behaviour Working Together.
Should a high volume of applications be received, the sift will be conducted only on the Personal Statement.
The Personal Statement will be scored for all candidates. Those candidates who achieve the minimum pass score for the Personal Statement will progress to a further sift where the CV and the Behaviour Working Together will be scored. These candidates will receive a sift score for all elements. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the Personal Statement will not have their CV and Behaviour scored and will only receive a sift score for the Personal Statement.
3. Interview – week commencing 1st September 2025
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviour (as listed in the job advert) based questions.
The interview will take place face to face at Amadeus House, Heathrow.
Please note travel expenses incurred to attend an interview will not be reimbursed.
For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.
Problems during the application process
If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact [email protected], including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.
Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.
Further information
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.
If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.
Standards
All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Integrity Check
As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, you will also be subject to an additional Integrity Check, as part of the pre-employment process, to determine your suitability to work for Border Force or Immigration Enforcement. For further information on what this involves, please visit our website.
If you are invited to an interview, you will be required to bring documentation for the purposes of establishing your identity.
You will need to meet the nationality requirements for this role and obtain the necessary security clearance to take it up.
For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.
Visa sponsorship
We do not sponsor individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas.
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via
- [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
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- Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
- Email : [email protected]
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[email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission
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