DI Intelligence Support to Targeting & Effects Analyst

Job summary

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.

DI is responsible for providing timely intelligence products, assessments and advice, giving perspective to the diverse and complex challenges Defence faces in a rapidly changing world.

Defence Intelligence Operations (DI Ops) is the nerve centre of Defence Intelligence. Empowered by the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI) with a raft of authorities, it leads the prioritisation and coordination of collection and analysis activities across Defence.

DI’s Intelligence Support to Targeting and Effects Mission Team (DI ISTE MT) have an exciting opportunity available for an all-source analyst to join and develop their skills. The DI ISTE MT provides critical effects-focussed intelligence to directly inform decision-making across Defence, Government and Coalition partners and support operations.

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 flexitime, job share and compressed hours.

All jobs adverts in DI are subject to fair and open competition.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

DI ISTE has three disciplines, target systems analysis (TSA), target audience analysis (TAA) and target development and production (TDP). This post has the opportunity to sit in any of the above and move between them. Common to all, is the fusing of intelligence and using analytical methodologies to assess adversary systems or audiences and how they function, to identify how their behaviour may be affected.

ISTE provides essential support to operational planning, policy and decision-making customers and this role will see the analyst delivering against tasking objectives which cover a variety of themes.

Main Responsibilities:

- Delivery of timely, relevant and accurate all source assessment products and briefings.

- Engagement with customer communities, stakeholders and partner agencies.

- Collaboration with analysts across the mission team and wider intelligence community, including Defence, partners across government and international allies.-

- Maintenance of a robust audit trail on all analytical products in accordance with MOD, all source and ISTE MT standards, policy and procedures.

- Promotion of a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

- Line Management – the role does not currently have any LM responsibilities, but this could change in the future.

Person specification

We are looking for someone with the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Critical and Creative Thinking:
Demonstrates the ability to generate novel ideas and solutions to problems, while applying rigorous analytical thinking when required.

• Strong Communication Skills:
Able to convey key points of complex issues clearly and effectively to customers who may not share the same depth of understanding, both verbally and in writing.

• Collaboration and Networking:
Skilled at bringing together and leading teams for mutual benefit, building strong relationships, and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve shared goals.

• Proactive Leadership and Teamwork:
Confident in taking the lead within their own area of work and working effectively as part of a team, inspiring others and contributing to a positive team dynamic.

• Adaptability and Resilience:
Thrives in dynamic environments, maintaining focus and effectiveness under pressure while managing shifting priorities.

• Commitment to Growth:
Eager to learn, develop new skills, and contribute to the success of the team and organisation.

• Passion for Impact:
Motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful difference and align with the organisation’s mission and values.

This is a unique opportunity to join a collaborative and impactful team. If you are ready to bring your skills, energy, and enthusiasm to this role, we encourage you to apply.

Essential criteria:

- Level 3 City & Guilds in Intelligence Analysis on completion of the Defence Intelligence Analytical Module (DIAM) or recognised equivalent e.g. Government Intelligence Analysis Techniques (GIAT) course, or an alternative Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis (PHIA) approved qualification (if not already held, must be achieved within 9 months of joining).

- Experience working with multi-disciplinary intelligence teams.

Desirable criteria:

- Experience working within the targeting discipline.

- Defence Intelligence Academy Targeting courses (can be completed within first 9 months of joining).

- Experience working within operational or strategic planning or delivering operational or strategic effect.

- Experience working across UKIC.

Behaviours

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

• All Source Intelligence Assessment framework.
• All Source Intelligence Assessment framework.

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• All Source Intelligence Assessment framework.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,720, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,927 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We offer a range of excellent benefits including but not limited to the following:

• 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%
• Leave entitlement - 25-day annual leave allowance per year increasing by 1 day per year (maximum 30 days per year). In addition, 8 statutory Bank Holidays and 1 privilege day per year.
• Complementing our generous annual leave allowance, we also have a flexible working scheme.
• Additional working pattern options – we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours. These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more, please speak to the Recruiting Line Manager.
• Professional Development - We are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values.
• Health and Wellbeing – for a small fee we offer the staff the use of the exceptional site gymnasium facilities at RAF Wyton.
• We also offer an excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Special Paid Leave to volunteer up to 6 days a year
• RAF Wyton has free car parking; and other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and onsite shop.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and working from home as part of a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement. All office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to site capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD workplace, will also count towards this level of office attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this and other flexible working arrangements may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

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

Applicants should apply for this role online, via the website.

Assessment at sift and interview will be based on meeting any defined skill/qualification requirements along with a Success Profile element assessment, as detailed in the job advert. The Success Profile elements to be assessed will be outlined within the job advert. The Civil Service Success Profile Framework is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles

All applicants will need to provide a personal statement, of no more than (500) words, including evidence of the essential and desirable criteria requested within the job advert. When completing your personal statement, please read and understand the requirements described in the Person Specification section thoroughly, as this is what your written evidence will be assessed against.

Your layout is entirely your preference; you may choose narrative, bullets, etc. You may choose to address each criteria separately or have examples that cover and evidence several criteria. Please ensure you evidence the requirements and what you have done that relates to the requirements. You don’t have to explain the whole process, focus on what you have done and the skills and experience you have used. Share with us what makes you suited to this role and why, what you can do and the technical and behavioural skills you have that correspond to the requirements, and life experience or passion you have that are linked to this role.

A CV will be required for this position, this cannot be uploaded to the advert. You will submit using the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard in part two of your application, detailing job history, previous experience, and skills.

At sift, applicants will be sifted against their CV, Personal statement and the following 2 behaviours and one technical competency:

Behaviours:

• Communicating & Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills:

• Gathering, Organising and Evaluating Information and Intelligence (All Source Intelligence Assessment Framework)

In the event of a high number of applications, the sift will be based on CV only.

At interview, applicants will be sifted against the following Civil Service Behaviours and/or Technical skills

Behaviours:

• Working Together
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership

Technical skills:

• Analysis, Tradecraft and Assessment (All Source Intelligence Assessment Framework)

Experience:

• Experience working in operational planning.
• Experience working across UKIC.
• Experience working within the targeting discipline.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary intelligence teams.

The sift should take place within two weeks of the job closing and candidates will be informed of the results, at all stages, via the website. Interview dates are to be confirmed.

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

If the successful candidate does not hold the necessary clearances, they will be made a provisional job offer and asked to undergo our vetting procedures. Once the relevant clearances have been obtained a formal job offer will be made and start dates can be discussed. Should the candidate fail to obtain the relevant clearances the provisional job offer will be rescinded. It should be noted that this process can take several months

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at Best Start in Life - Best Start in Life.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

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Always on, we are across every UK operation, delivering the capabilities you don’t usually see - or those you can’t.

From cyber warriors and medics to intelligence analysts, special forces, educators, and Defence attachés, our collective expertise delivers the warfighting edge Defence needs to deter threats and secure the nation today and prepare for tomorrow.

CSOC unites Defence’s cyber and specialist capabilities under a single, military command alongside the Royal Navy, British Army, and the Royal Air Force - acting as the UK’s fourth Military Command. For more information, please see here.’

Cyber and Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to design the way in which the new Military Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, posts within CSOC are/or may become subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions

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 developed vetting (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

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 theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : DI Ops Recruitment
• Email : Ukstratcom-DI-Ops-Recruitment@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: info@csc.gov.uk.

Attachments

Defence Civil Service Offer Opens in new window (pdf, 1562kB)Defence Civil Service Offer (1) Opens in new window (pdf, 1562kB)Defence Internal Brief notice Opens in new window (docx, 43kB)CSOC Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1777kB)