Proceeds of Crime Centre (PoCC) Regulator

Job summary

You must be an experienced Financial Investigator (up to and including Confiscator).

The Proceeds of Crime Centre (PoCC) discharges the statutory responsibility of Director General NCA (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (PoCA), P1 section 3) to provide training, accreditation and monitoring of Financial Investigators.

Job description

As a PoCC regulator you will be involved in the design, development and delivery of Proceeds of Crime training courses as well as the accreditation and monitoring of financial investigators. No two days will be the same, you could find yourself delivering training one day and visiting a stakeholder the next. You may also be asked to attend regional or national level meetings to represent the views of the PoCC. Although a training or teaching qualification and/or an assessment qualification are desirable, this is not an essential criteria. Successful candidates who do not have this background will be put through the relevant training

The joy of the role is that there is no ‘typical day’, you could find yourself delivering training to a group of financial investigators from across law enforcement, or you could be setting or checking and advising on Action Plans, Personal Development Plans and Continuous Professional Development. Equally you could find yourself spending a day with a team of FIs, discussing best practice, issues that they are seeing locally, and advising them of any changes to policy or case law.

Duties & Responsibilities

Training and Delivery

Delivering PoCC’s statutory functions of training, accreditation and monitoring to over 3000 law enforcement officers from over 200 organisations across England, Wales and Northern Ireland including, but not limited to, Police Forces, Local Authorities, Trading Standards, HMRC, DWP and other agencies.

Deliver Presentations

Attend regional and national conferences and deliver updates on the PoCC and wider legislative changes, upskilling and responding to questions that may be asked.

Monitor

Monitoring Financial Investigators from across law enforcement, including preparing individual responses, action plans and when an issue is identified, agreeing the most appropriate course of action.

Work with Stakeholders

Work with learners from UK Law Enforcement and all Proceeds of Crime Act (PoCA) enabled organisations who require PoCC training and accreditation.

Develop and Implement Processes

Develop, maintain and update training material as necessary.

Provide Support

Provide learners and trainees with advice, guidance and support as and when needed. On-site visits, online meetings as a hybrid approach will be required.

Manage Data Governance

Supervise the quality and submission of evidence to determine suitability for the award of PoCA powers, including the subsequent ongoing and necessary monitoring.

Legislation

Review legislation, stated cases and court decisions and design and develop upskilling articles for distribution to Financial Investigators.

Conduct Workplace Assessments

Travel to meet individuals and their supervisors and/or managers to discuss work and conduct workplace assessments. Travel to meet FI teams, answer queries and deliver upskilling events. Review and assess evidence submitted during training, review Continued Professional Development evidence submitted and ensure compliance with the legislative obligations.

Design Training Modules

The design, development and delivery of training plans and training material based around Proceeds of Crime Act (PoCA) 2002.

Audit Compliance

Liaise with Financial Investigation Support System (FISS) team to ensure learners maintain accreditation, complete activities as published and contribute to the standardisation processes of work booklets.

Person specification

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Coaches and Mentors Others

Listens to and questions others effectively, to help them visualise and consider how they can best achieve their objectives. Acts as a role model - encouraging growth in others by sharing knowledge and experience.

Drafting, Report Writing and Presentation Skills

Able to communicate concisely, accurately and clearly

Personal and Professional Development

Ensure regular development discussions happen within the PoCC, empowering everyone to own their personal development plan and access formal and informal learning opportunities to maximise individual effectiveness.

Purposeful

Think and work strategically and systematically, leading and supporting as required, respecting the drivers of culture and team values.

Legislation

A strong understanding of the illicit finance landscape and the relevant legislation (UK and International) affecting law enforcement activity and proceeds of crime work.

Information Management

Understands data classification and importance of protect personal and confidential information. Knows protection laws and regulation compliance and how to minimise risks of data breaches or unauthorised access. Knows how to conduct regular security audits and respond promptly to data breaches.

Qualifications, Membership and Licences

Accredited Financial Investigator up to and including Confiscator level

Regulators must be able to deliver the full suite of PoCC training and need to have been in the role of practitioner to fully deliver a sound understanding of the practical application of legislation. .

Following the sift selection stage, candidates' accreditation will be verified through the Financial Investigation Support System (FISS). Candidates who are not recorded as Accredited Financial Investigators up to and including Confiscator level, will not progress to the next stage of the recruitment process.

Any applications from candidates not meeting this eligibility criteria will not progress.

Behaviours

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

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

• Experience of stakeholder management, including developing and maintaining beneficial relationships.
• Detailed understanding of criminal law and UK legislation affecting PoCC activity.
• Experience of planning and providing training materials and delivering prepared lesson plans in a training environment.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,392, National Crime Agency contributes £14,308 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

New entrants to the NCA receive 26 days annual leave, rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service, plus 8 bank holidays.

If qualifying criteria is met new joiners from UK Police Forces or the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC) will have service with those employers taken into account for continuous service purposes for annual leave entitlement only, this will be up to a maximum of 31 days leave (including 1 privilege day).

Other benefits include:

• Flexible working, including flexi-time, compressed hours and job sharing (in line with business requirements)
• Family friendly policies, notably above the statutory minimum
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Interest free loans and advances, including season tickets, childcare and rental deposits
• Housing schemes - Key Worker status
• Discounts and Savings with a wide variety of services including Cycle to Work, Smart Tech schemes, dental insurance, gym discounts and savings on everyday spending, available through the Reward Gateway , Edenred and Blue Light Card schemes.
• Staff support groups/networks
• Sports and social activities, including membership to the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)

Further information is available on the NCA Website.

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 and Technical skills.

Your application will be assessed against the following:

Technical - this will be assessed by 250 word examples on:

• Experience of stakeholder management, including developing and maintaining beneficial relationships.

• Detailed understanding of criminal law and UK legislation affecting PoCC activity.

• Experience of planning and providing training materials and delivering prepared lesson plans in a training environment.

A panel will assess how well your application demonstrates the requirements outlined above.

Longlist

In the event of a high number of applications, we may operate a longlist. Applicants will need to meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria.

- Experience of stakeholder management, including developing and maintaining beneficial relationships. .

Candidates who do not meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria will not progress to having their other criteria assessed. Applications must meet the minimum criteria to be progressed to the assessment stage.

You will receive an acknowledgement once your application is submitted.

We aim to have sift completed and scores released within 10 working days of the closing date of the advert. For high volume campaigns this timeframe may be extended.

Scores will be provided but further feedback will not be available at this stage.

For guidance on the application process, visit:
NCA Applying and Onboarding

Assessment 1

The format of this assessment will be Interview which will be tested on the criteria listed in the Success Profiles at Assessment section.

Success Profiles at Assessment

Behaviours

• Communicating and Influencing

• Changing and Improving

Technical

• Experience of stakeholder management, including developing and maintaining beneficial relationships.

• Detailed understanding of criminal law and UK legislation affecting PoCC activity.

• Experience of planning and providing training materials and delivering prepared lesson plans in a training environment.

Assessment Outcome

Outcomes will be communicated via the NCA recruitment portal.
If successful but no role is immediately available, you may be placed on a reserve list for 12 months.
Reserve lists can be used to fill similar role types across the Agency where the assessment criteria is considered a match by the recruitment team and the business area.

In the event of a tie at the assessment stage, available roles will be offered in merit order using the following order:

1. Lead criteria (behaviours/technical/experience)
2. If still tied, desirable criteria will be assessed (if advertised)
3. If still tied, application sift scores will be used

Feedback is provided only to those who attend an assessment.

You will be subject to vetting and pre-employment checks before appointment.

Once the vacancy closes, the advert will no longer be accessible. Please save a copy for your records.

We encourage all candidates to visit the NCA Careers Page for more information.

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

Security

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

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk
• Email : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk
• Telephone : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk

Further information

If you believe your application has not been treated fairly, email: Central.Recruitment@nca.gov.uk (quoting the vacancy reference).
If unresolved, you may escalate your complaint to the Civil Service Commission.