Intelligence Officer
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,000 to £35,700 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus allowance of around 19% which equates to approximately £6,460 per annum based on salary minimum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Location: | Heathrow |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 411500/1 |
Summary
Home Office Intelligence brings together a number of existing teams involved in the collection and analysis of border and immigration related intelligence. It delivers Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watchlisting capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement. Learn more on the HO Intelligence careers page.
Home Office Intelligence (HOI) was established in November 2021, merging Immigration Intelligence and Border Force Intelligence to form a unified entity with the mission of protecting the UK from harm. HOI delivers a broad range of intelligence products to tackle immigration and border priority threats, using data-driven methods to identify and assess potential risks.
The Directorate is composed of around 1,650 personnel within the UK and an additional 260 individuals embedded globally across over 40 countries. The team’s remit is to deliver Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watch listing capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement.
The Home Office Intelligence Sensitive Intelligence Unit (HOI-SIU) is part of the Sensitive Intelligence Network (SIN) across law enforcement. The HOI-SIU is a busy, challenging environment, with a remit to develop and disseminate high grade sensitive intelligence to support investigation of Organised Immigration Crime, working in partnership with Immigration Intelligence units, Criminal and Financial Investigations teams and other Law Enforcement Agencies.
The Specialist Intelligence Command is responsible for gathering and developing intelligence on organised crime groups involved in Organised Immigration Crime (OIC), to initiate new criminal investigations and support existing investigations in the UK and overseas. This includes management and oversight of the use of specialist and covert intelligence techniques, and engagement with appropriate partners and stakeholders. The teams also support Frontline Enforcement work to address all immigration abuse.
The post of Intelligence Officer within the unit involves gathering, managing and analysing a large amount of often complex information from a variety of sensitive sources and turning it into meaningful, timely and useable high value intelligence in support of operations and investigations.
The Intelligence Officer post in HOI-SIU also requires you to act as Duty Officer managing a busy and often pressurised inbox and other workstreams where requests for information/intelligence can be urgent/ high harm cases that require quick and accurate responses.
The post involves a high degree of engagement with internal and external partners. The post offers excellent opportunities for development of skills within the sensitive intelligence arena.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop and embed a wide range of people and engagement skills within a high performing team, delivering what is required to continue to make the team a great place to work and to support staff and senior managers in delivery.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Handling sensitive intelligence in line with standard operating procedures.
- Paralleling information from sensitive intelligence tactics, thereby turning sensitive intelligence into usable intelligence reports.
- Creating and disseminating intelligence reports.
- Conducting intelligence research across a wide variety of intelligence databases and other sources of intelligence.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
- Developing intelligence investigations.
- Supporting covert operations.
Please Note: DV clearance is required to work within the SIU.
In addition, STRAP clearance will also be required.
Training
You will be an enthusiastic team player and willing to learn. You will need to be resilient, as the role may be particularly busy whilst supporting covert operations.
Please note there will be a requirement to attend appropriate training courses, which may be residential.
You will also be expected to achieve IPP accreditation as an Intelligence Officer within a reasonable timeframe.
Working patterns
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
Successful candidates will need to be able to attend for all shifts including early starts and late night finishes. These shifts may be outside of public transport operating hours.
Travel
Occasional travel will be required for meetings and to attend courses.
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