Projects, Policy and Insights Manager (Risk and Capabilities Unit) (Ref: 23315)

Job summary

This position is based nationally.

Job description

HMPPS Band 5

Things you need to know:

The Cyber Threat Team sits within the Risk and Capabilities Unit. We support His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to understand and respond to digital offending and technology-related risks. Working with internal teams and partner organisations, the team helps strengthen cyber awareness, develop practical guidance and improve how people whose offending involves technology are managed.

As Projects, Policy and Insights Manager, you will use evidence, analysis and stakeholder engagement to support delivery, inform decisions and develop clear, practical guidance for colleagues across HMPPS.

The role focuses on three connected areas:

• Insight and reporting

Managing and developing new reporting and insight capabilities, identifying trends and risks, and turning information into clear insights for decision-making and future planning.

• Policy and guidance

Supporting policy and guidance that helps staff identify, assess and manage technology-related offending risks, using evidence and operational insight to ensure products are practical and proportionate.

• Project delivery

Leading or supporting projects that improve practice across prisons, probation and partner organisations.

About you

You will need to understand, or quickly develop an understanding of, the criminal justice system and be able to explain the risks linked to the current cyber threat landscape and online criminality.

We are looking for a confident and curious self-starter with strong research skills, sound judgement and an interest in developing creative ways to communicate cyber and digital subject matter to operational teams. You will be security minded, comfortable working with others to solve problems, and able to turn complex information into clear, practical outputs for prisons, probation, approved premises and youth custody services.

About the Risk and Capabilities Unit:

The Risk and Capabilities Unit (RaCU) sits within the Directorate of Security and is comprised of three distinct pillars:

1) Operational Countermeasures (includes the Cyber Threat Team)
2) Personnel Security Countermeasures
3) Procedures, Practice and Capability.

RaCU is dedicated to identifying and prioritising security risk and providing and enhancing capabilities in prisons, probation and youth custody to counter them.

The term ‘Capabilities’ covers a wide spectrum of support and interventions. For example, our technological or physical advances to detect, prevent usage of, or disable illicit items; our formal training and skilling; our clear and constant learning communications; as well as our contemporary security procedures and practice improvement to enable staff to perform their duties consistently well.

These are all ‘Capabilities’ and give people the tools to achieve.

Our purpose is to identify and prioritise live and future risks, and in turn provide a range of creative and effective capabilities to support others to manage, mitigate or remove them.

Location:

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your base location.

Application Feedback:

Unfortunately, feedback cannot be provided for the application stage, any requests for feedback will not be actioned.

Security Clearance:
All Risk and Capabilities Unit employees must hold at least SC level security clearance. For SC clearance you must have the UK footprint of 5 years. More information can be found about the vetting and clearance levels before completing your application. These short videos address common concerns and preconceptions which applicants may have about national security vetting.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

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

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

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,417, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £10,839 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).

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check.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.

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 : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5358

Recruitment team

• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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