Director of Enforcement, Compliance & Crime
Director of Enforcement Compliance & Crime
Location
Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield
Grade and Salary
SCS Pay Band 2
£93,000 – £115,000
Contract Type
Permanent, Full time and Job share, Flexible working
The Role
The post will provide leadership and direction for the Reporting and Offender Management centres and Immigration Crime, Compliance and Enforcement teams across the UK, including the Crime and Financial Investigations and Intervention and Sanctions teams. The person will also be a senior leader in the Borders and Enforcement capability and the Home Office.
The key responsibilities of the role are:
- Leading the command to tackle illegal migration across the nation
- Setting the strategic engagement and partnership priorities and leading relationships with senior officials, Ministers, HM Revenue & Customs and other law enforcement bodies to tackle illegality
- Leading and providing direction to the Criminal and Financial Investigations teams, ensuring that, working closely with the NCA, they continue to disrupt Organised Crime Gangs who deal with clandestine and other immigration crime.
- Designing, developing and delivering the strategic and operational law enforcement plans for Borders and Enforcement in line with the Government’s immigration priorities, both in the UK and with our near neighbours in Europe.
- Setting the strategic community engagement priorities and leading key relationships and external messaging with faith and community leaders, as well as the media. The purpose is to provide an avenue for low-harm illegal migrants to depart voluntarily from the UK through links with faith and community groups
- Leading transformational change of the enforcement teams so that they are fit to respond to new demand and resource challenges by 2025, including location of offices, digital, policy guidance and process changes
- Overseeing reporting centres and transition them to a modern form of contact management. Maximising the opportunities that regular face-to-face interactions presents, including being a source of enforced and voluntary returns;
- Leading the transformational change of reporting centres, using technology to streamline processes and allow teams to focus on tasks that support a reduction in the illegal population;
- Communicating a clear and strong vision for immigration operations to frontline staff.
- Be responsible for delivery of the Government’s Access to Work, Benefits and Services strategy (compliant environment). In particular, work with Ministers and x-HMG stakeholders to increase the intensity of these measures and be the operational lead for Recommendation Seven of the Wendy Williams Lessons Learned report.
- This is a highly politicised working environment and so the post holder will also have regular engagement with Ministers and senior external stakeholders.
- The post holder will lead a large team of approximately c.1600 staff and will need to work closely with the Clandestine Channel Threat Command in relation to deploying resources to deal with small boats.