33023 - Intelligence Technical Officer
| Posting date: | 15 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £34,320 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 January 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 33023 |
Summary
Join the Environment Agency’s National Environmental Crime Unit and help transform how we tackle environmental crime. As an Intelligence Technical Officer, you’ll strengthen intelligence-led working across our area enforcement teams, improve understanding of Threat, Risk and Harm and support officer safety.
This new role in our Intelligence and Partnerships team will see you:
Deliver face-to-face training on our intelligence system.
Champion how intelligence can help to prepare, prevent, protect and pursue against environmental crime.
Support teams to submit high-quality intelligence and conduct searches.
Monitor and improve intelligence logs and data quality.
Create entities from submissions and provide feedback to users.
Build relationships with internal customers, promoting intelligence-led ways of working.
Other duties that are commensurate with the role.
We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, please clearly include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training, and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.
You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. Location is flexible and we are happy to support smarter ways of working through a mixture of home and office working, however travel to Birmingham and other offices where staff are based will be required on occasions.
The team
The Intelligence Team manage and develop all criminal intelligence for the Environment Agency. Made up of several roles and disciplines, we build and maintain strong relationships with our partners to work as one enforcement community and drive our intelligence-led approach to tackling environmental crime across many regimes. The team provide a professional and timely service and are focussed on continuously improving how we do things to make sure our outcomes meet our customers’ needs.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for self-motivated and proactive applicants who have experience of working in an intelligence role and can demonstrate the following:
A good understanding of Intelligence and competent in the use of IT and Intelligence systems is essential
An ability to advocate for an intelligence-led approach and embed across teams
Excellent influencing skills, ensuring the use of the EA Intelligence System is the norm and safety checks are mandatory
Success in building strong, effective relationships
Ability to create and deliver engaging, effective and inclusive training
Excellent communication skills with the ability to give feedback on ways to improve intelligence submission performance
Strong self-management and organisational skills
Great team work to support colleagues achieve common goals.
This new role in our Intelligence and Partnerships team will see you:
Deliver face-to-face training on our intelligence system.
Champion how intelligence can help to prepare, prevent, protect and pursue against environmental crime.
Support teams to submit high-quality intelligence and conduct searches.
Monitor and improve intelligence logs and data quality.
Create entities from submissions and provide feedback to users.
Build relationships with internal customers, promoting intelligence-led ways of working.
Other duties that are commensurate with the role.
We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, please clearly include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training, and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.
You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. Location is flexible and we are happy to support smarter ways of working through a mixture of home and office working, however travel to Birmingham and other offices where staff are based will be required on occasions.
The team
The Intelligence Team manage and develop all criminal intelligence for the Environment Agency. Made up of several roles and disciplines, we build and maintain strong relationships with our partners to work as one enforcement community and drive our intelligence-led approach to tackling environmental crime across many regimes. The team provide a professional and timely service and are focussed on continuously improving how we do things to make sure our outcomes meet our customers’ needs.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for self-motivated and proactive applicants who have experience of working in an intelligence role and can demonstrate the following:
A good understanding of Intelligence and competent in the use of IT and Intelligence systems is essential
An ability to advocate for an intelligence-led approach and embed across teams
Excellent influencing skills, ensuring the use of the EA Intelligence System is the norm and safety checks are mandatory
Success in building strong, effective relationships
Ability to create and deliver engaging, effective and inclusive training
Excellent communication skills with the ability to give feedback on ways to improve intelligence submission performance
Strong self-management and organisational skills
Great team work to support colleagues achieve common goals.