D2/G7 Chief Investigator - Technical and Capability (Criminal Investigation)
| Posting date: | 19 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £51,518 to £61,588 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51,518- £58,828 (National) £53,400-£61,588 (London) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 March 2024 |
| Location: | Exeter |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 345342/4 |
Summary
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include LGBT+, FACES, Disability & Health, Break the Stigma, Women’s, The Shed, Carers, Part Time Workers, No Limits and Grass Roots.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career.
Our Structure
Our Criminal Investigation Teams, part of the Investigation and Enforcement Services directorate (IES), are spread across England and Wales and are responsible for conducting criminal investigations into insolvency and corporate-related criminal offences which support the agency’s objective to tackle financial wrongdoing. These teams work closely with our civil investigation teams and our Legal Services Directorate internally and other law enforcement partner organisations to ensure that we fulfil our role in delivering Governmental strategies.
Following the recent enactment of new legislation, over the next two years we will be significantly expanding our criminal investigative remit and capability. This new role will support this expansion and provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced criminal investigation leader to help build our resilience, professionalism and develop pathways for our criminal investigation teams.
You will report to one of the Assistant Directors within IES and will work very closely with the Chief Investigators who lead our criminal investigation work in each of our three operational regions: North, Midlands & West and South. You will be able to base yourself in any one of our regional centres across England and Wales, although regular travel to other sites to meet with colleagues, and externally with other regulators, often at other offsite locations across the country will be required. Occasional overnight stays may be required.
Part time working will be considered but there is a minimum requirement of 30 hours per week.
Responsibilities
The main duties of the role include:
- Working collaboratively with our operational Chief Investigators, Intelligence and Compliance and Targeting Teams and agency business partners to ensure that our criminal investigation teams are well supported, with quality standards and best practice consistently applied and continuously improved.
- Working influentially and in partnership with other law enforcement, prosecuting and enforcement authorities as well as Regulatory Bodies in relation to criminal enforcement activity. This will include maintaining Memorandum of Understandings with external partners.
- Contributing to agency development and capability initiative for criminal investigators. This will include line managing the Training Lead-Criminal Investigations and working with the agency Capability Team to develop a new training regime for new criminal investigators and continuous professional development activities for more qualified staff.
- Providing a gateway function for the provision of technical guidance for criminal investigators, ensuring such guidance remains accessible and up to date.
- Providing Special Point of Contact (SPOC) support as Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000/Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) advisor and manage any applications through to consideration for authorisation (RIPA), for IPA ensure National Anti Fraud Network (NAFN) end to end service is effective and timely.
- Liaising with Investigatory Powers Commissioners Office (IPCO) in relation to bi-annual inspection and develop and deliver action plans in response.
- In conjunction with the Training Lead-Criminal Investigations, maintain and oversee Communications Data standards and training delivery to authorised staff.
- Contributing positively as a member of the IES Senior Leadership Team to future IES and agency strategies and other agency-level activities.
- In time there may also be a requirement to oversee some criminal investigation.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to:
- Develop their leadership skills
- Influence the design and development of a training regime for our expanding criminal investigation teams, building capability, professionalism and career pathways
- Providing technical and governance support to our operational criminal investigation teams, including audit and risk management activities
- Play a key role in developing the future IES, best practice and embedding the Government Counter Fraud Profession and standards
- Appreciate the bigger picture of the investigation and enforcement environment across government and raising the Agency’s contribution to it.