Regulatory Compliance Intelligence Manager
| Posting date: | 19 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Additional salary information: | On call allowance of £3,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 March 2026 |
| Location: | Southampton |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 451878/1 |
Summary
Do you have the skills to lead or support complex regulatory investigations?
Are you driven to ensure compliance and help deliver safer lives, safer ships, and cleaner seas?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are seeking a Regulatory Compliance Intelligence Manager. The successful candidate will work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the effective enforcement of the Merchant Shipping Act and other maritime legislation, including undertaking proactive compliance activities and investigating and prosecuting offenders where appropriate. The Regulatory Compliance Investigations Team (RCIT) enforces legislation under the Merchant Shipping Act and other maritime law. The team ensures the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) acts lawfully and effectively in regulating UK ships, seafarers, and foreign vessels in UK waters by conducting investigations and, where appropriate, prosecuting offenders to support the MCA’s strategic objectives: safer lives, safer ships, cleaner seas.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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This role provides strategic leadership and professional oversight of intelligence and tasking activity across the Directorate. It ensures intelligence is effectively collected, assessed and translated into timely, lawful operational action through robust governance, including TTCG and GRP oversight. The post holder identifies trends, strengthens partnerships, and ensures compliance with intelligence legislation and security standards. This role underpins evidence‑based decision making, risk‑informed prioritisation, and the effective prevention, detection and disruption of harm.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Lead the preparation and administration of TTCG meetings, ensuring agendas, intelligence products, and risk assessments are accurate and timely. Apply the National Decision Model (NDM) and National Intelligence Model (NIM) principles to prioritise operational tasks and allocate resources effectively. Manage the Gateway Referral Process by screening and evaluating referrals against enforcement thresholds. Ensure decisions are documented in Clue case management software and compliance systems (e.g., UKMS) with robust audit trials. Develop and deliver intelligence packages and strategic assessments aligned with TTCG objectives to inform decision-making and resource allocation. Direct the collection, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence to identify threats, harm, and risk. Monitor KPIs and SLAs for tasking and referrals, reporting outcomes to senior leadership. Maintain compliance with GDPR, data protection, and MCA enforcement policy across all intelligence processes.Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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