D2 / Grade 7 Joint Head of Intelligence Unit
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,094 to £64,359 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £54,094 - £61,475 London: £56,070 - £64,359 Please note that negotiations for the Insolvency Service 2024 Pay Award are still ongoing. We will update this information in future adverts once the pay award is finalised. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 401310/6 |
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 7 employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include LGBT+, FACES, Break the Stigma, Disability & Health, Part Time Workers, Women’s and Carers.
We offer part-time 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.
This is an exciting time to join the Insolvency Service as it undergoes significant transformational change putting intelligence at the heart of its investigations and enforcement work, expanding the agency’s anti-money laundering intelligence offer, as well as supporting closer working with Companies House following the introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA).
You will be jointly responsible for the intelligence operations across the agency, adding value to criminal and civil investigative and enforcement efforts within the Insolvency Service, and the wider regulatory and enforcement communities across government.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Jointly building and leading the agency’s intelligence function at a strategic and tactical level, overseeing analysis of threats and risk to support the development of the agency’s responses though its Strategic Assessment.
- Working collaboratively with Companies House and our parent department, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in delivering the Companies House reforms as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
- Supporting the Assistant Director (D3/G6) by taking a lead role in developing and implementing the Future Intelligence Model for the agency, putting intelligence at the heart of investigations.
- This will include leading by example, being a champion for change and actively driving change through engagement of our people, encouraging ideas and challenges, whilst demonstrating exemplar behaviours in leading and managing others through change.
- Leading and championing new data and digital opportunities and being innovative around the opportunities afforded by new technologies.
- Jointly leading the agency’s intelligence function at a tactical level through a team of Intelligence Officers and Analysts based at locations across the Insolvency Service, growing capability aligned to the Government Counter Fraud Profession.
- Responsible for the delivery of the Intelligence Team operational objectives and performance, ensuring the effective use of resources in response to the priority threats and risks as agreed through the agency’s Strategic Assessment and Control Strategy.
- Responsible for delivering value for money through continuous improvement and actively leading on risk management and mitigation's to support delivery of the agency’s objectives and priorities through its intelligence function.
- Engaging and collaborating with stakeholders internally and across government and other law enforcement bodies, looking for opportunities for joint working in tackling corporate fraud and financial wrongdoing.
- Influencing the strategic direction of the Service through the identification and analysis of emerging themes and advising strategy group of trending or emerging issues.
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