Fingerprint Comparison Officer
| Posting date: | 26 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,300 to £44,191 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus AHW allowance of approximately 19.12% Recruitment retention allowance £1600 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 397508/1 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join a business critical Home Office technical team supporting front-line operations. The Immigration Fingerprint Bureau (IFB), is a specialist unit within UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) providing an essential biometric checking service to UKVI, Border Force, and Immigration Enforcement and on occasions UK law enforcement. Its core responsibility is to:
• Fix an identity to an individual at the earliest opportunity.
• Identify those who are attempting to deceive and facilitate the legitimate travel of others.
IFB comprises of a small team of highly motivated Fingerprint Experts and Technicians. It is the only non-criminal fingerprint bureau in the UK and is accredited to ISO 9001:2015 standard.
You will be experienced in fingerprint comparison, you will undertake the duties required to ensure an efficient, effective biometric checking and enquiry service for operational teams, carrying out both fingerprint verification and validation activities and supervising Fingerprint Technicians as part of this process.
The primary system used in IFB is the Immigration & Asylum Biometric System (IABS) and you will receive training in its full functionality. This will include basic facial matching training to enable you to process face comparisons on IABS. You will use your technical skills to ensure biometric products are issued to genuine applicants. For individuals who are encountered by UK Border Force, you will be responsible for confirming identity, so they can be dealt with under the Asylum application process.
You will work with the Quality Manager and Team leader to review existing operating procedures, and the introduction of new procedures to refine working practices, in order to meet the national ISO 9001:2015 accreditation standard. Any other duties as reasonably necessary for the fulfilment of your role.
Key responsibilities:
- Conducting Fingerprint comparisons using IABS.
- Completing facial matching checks on IABS (subject to training);
- Investigating any bio-metric queries. You will be given training to interrogate Home Office databases to enable you to arrive at a conclusion, using both bio-metric evidence and case history.
- Performing the role of Office Manager; Assessing and prioritising the workflow coming into the Bureau, allocating resources accordingly, taking responsibility for meeting service level agreements.
- Providing witness statements and present fingerprint evidence at Immigration Tribunals.
- Completing other duties as reasonably necessary for the fulfilment of your role.
Training
There will be scope for you to undertake training to develop your skills in management, to enable you to line manage and mentor junior colleagues.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
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