Higher Intelligence Analyst

Job summary

Border Security Command works to disrupt and dismantle organised immigration crime, including organised criminal gangs. We reduce illicit goods and irregular migration and deliver detection and interception at the border. We safeguard people exploited through trafficking and smuggling and help build public confidence in the UK’s border security.

The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) is a multi-agency, military-civil organisation hosted by the Home Office that acts as the UK government’s centre of excellence for maritime security. Its mission is to increase awareness and understanding of maritime security threats and enable cross-government coordination to deliver a whole-system response to mitigate them.

The JMSC offers government departments and agencies a central point of UK maritime expertise and understanding to assist policy and decision making. The JMSC works internationally - with states and with key international organisations - to support information sharing, relationship development and capacity building efforts.

The JMSC is mandated to provide Maritime Domain Awareness & Understanding, Operational Coordination & Coherence, Strategic Maritime Threat Assessment, Support to Sanction Regimes, International Engagement & Liaison, and Strategy & Transformation.

Job description

You will report to and take direction from their respective Senior Intelligence Analyst. You will collate and consolidate sanctions-related data and analysis, from across the national and international intelligence communities, at all levels of security classification, to deliver comprehensive understanding related to global maritime shadow fleet activity.

The focus for the Sanctions Team is set by HM Government’s strategic and operational priorities. This work is at the cutting-edge of delivering rigorous assessment in support of decision-making at all levels, as well as satisfying part of the JMSC’s maritime security mandate. It offers a challenging opportunity to join a collaborative and dynamic intelligence assessment community of interest, which directly sustains national security policy and operational planning.

As the potential first point of contact for emerging maritime events you will be expected to apply sound judgement and escalate issues to senior leaders to enable an effective and timely response.

Key Responsibilities:

• Researching and drafting high-quality, threat assessments and presentations to satisfy standing and ad hoc intelligence requirements.
• Building a deep, evidence‑based understanding of sanctions‑related maritime activity, including the behaviours, enablers, and risk vectors associated with Russia‑linked shipping and wider evasion networks.
• Maintaining and strengthening enduring linkages with national and international intelligence, policy, and operational counterparts to support a coherent UK understanding of Russia‑related sanctions activity and evasion methodologies.
• Taking responsibility for engaging with stakeholders, delivering outcomes and resolving issues.
• Providing high quality, succinct, timely and accurate, advice and briefings.
• Providing strong support to their Senior Intelligence Analyst regarding a specific area of analytical responsibility, including day to day and urgent, high profile or sensitive issues.
• Understanding, articulating, and helping drive forward JMSC Assessment output, and in turn, supporting wider business to deliver the JMSC Mandate.
• Maintaining an overview of issues affecting wider JMSC Assessment activity so your sanctions analysis and research feed effectively into related workstreams.

Working Pattern

This role is suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 30 hours per week.

Training

Mandatory training will need to be completed for the role.

Travel

Occasional travel will be required to partner locations across the UK, or in some limited cases travel to overseas. Overnight stays may be necessary on occasion.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Developed Vetting (DV) clearance required.
• Apply analytical skills independently to complex work, selecting appropriate methods, exercising sound judgement, and meeting standards and deadlines with an element of supervision.
• Understand how your analysis contributes to wider UK sanctions objectives, strengthening organisational decision‑making and improving the collective picture of sanctions‑evasion and associated maritime risk.
• Build and maintain strong domestic and international stakeholder relationships, supporting coherent understanding across intelligence, policy and operational partners.
• Use creative and critical thinking to produce high‑quality assessments, applying structured analytical techniques and clearly articulating how key judgements have been reached.
• Communicate complex matters clearly and concisely, presenting your reasoning visually, verbally and in writing to support high‑quality briefing and decision‑making.

Desirable Criteria

• Completion of Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment's (PHIA) new analyst training (or its predecessors) or equivalent.
• An ability to routinely review effort and outputs, taking the initiative to appropriately challenge and suggest improvements.

Behaviours

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

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

• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
• Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• 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.

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, Strengths and Experience.

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 21 July 2026

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

• CV
• Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words).
• Evidence of the Behaviour Managing a Quality Service (maximum of 250 words).

Your CV should consist of yourcareer history and skillsincluding 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 – 23 July 2026

The sift will be held on the Personal Statement, CV and Behaviour Managing a Quality Service, as listed in the advert.

Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift which will consist of all the remaining elements submitted (CV and Behaviour. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the initial sift will not have their remaining submitted elements scored and will only receive a sift score for that assessed at the initial sift.

3. Interview – 13 August 2026

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that which will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) and Strength based questions.

The interview will take place on MS Teams

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 hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, 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.

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.

Breaking Tied Scores

The behaviours and strengths have been ranked in order of importance to enable us to differentiate between candidates with tied interview scores.

Standards

All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.

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 Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

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 HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk 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.

Additional Security Checks

As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.

Feedback

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).

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

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 : Home Office Resourcing Centre
• Email : HORCCampaignTeamBorderForce@homeoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. and you wish to make a complaint, then contact the Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

Attachments

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