Director of Intelligence
Director of Intelligence
Location
London and Manchester
Grade and Salary
SCS Pay Band 2
£93,000 – 115,000
Contract Type
Permanent, Full time and Job share, Flexible working
The Role
Director of Intelligence for the Borders & Enforcement capability in the Home Office is a new role. It has been created to provide a single strategic and operational lead primarily for all Border Force and Immigration Enforcement intelligence requirements and functions. But it will have a wider remit which brings together the current intelligence teams and capabilities that exist in Border Force, Immigration Enforcement and the Home Office Central Authorities Bureau. The new Directorate will provide intelligence support across the Home Office but will sit in the new Borders and Enforcement Capability. It will provide a strategic and operational intelligence capability across multiple missions including fiscal customs, national security, immigration, serious and organised crime, endangered species, and increasingly measures associated with health at the border. The post holder will be responsible for bringing together existing, large and separate intelligence commands to create a cohesive and more powerful intelligence capability in support of the delivery of HO objectives in the UK and internationally, with a distinct focus on digital transformation and enhancement of the intelligence capability. The post holder will work with a wide range of internal and external partners, stakeholders and regulators.
The key responsibilities of the role are:
- Leading the Home Office Intelligence Capability – c.1500 staff across the UK and overseas with a combined budget of c£100 million pa.
- Building a better intelligence capability – the HO has a range of intelligence capabilities that deliver high quality intelligence, outputs and outcomes, but it can improve. You will be the head of the intelligence profession and seek to deliver improvements through professional development, maximising intelligence collection and development capabilities, and improved tools and data exploitation capability to support lead generation and targeting inland, upstream and at the border. Home Office intelligence functions are currently delivered in three separate businesses, using different technology solutions and the postholder will need restructure and consolidate people and systems to improve delivery against the range of threats, and the underpinning capabilities that enable this.
- Oversight for the Government Major Programmes & Projects (GMPP) Cerberus and a project budget for technology and capacity building in excess of £40 million pa.
- Maximising the impact of immigration intelligence across threats, whether this is where the HO has the lead e.g. Illegal Migration and Human Trafficking, or those where it supports others such as SOC, National Security and Revenue partners.
- Accountable for all intelligence functions, providing advice and support to the HS, Ministers and senior officials to ensure they are appropriately briefed and supported in decision making across all our missions.
- You will be responsible for setting and delivering the Home Office intelligence strategic and operational objectives, leading intelligence co-operation and representing the Department with partners including NCA, HMRC, Counter Terrorism Policing, National Police Chiefs’ Council, FCDO and UK Intelligence Community, as well as overseas partners including 5-Eyes.
- Professionalisation and oversight. Home Office intelligence is an important part of the wider HMG Intelligence and Assessment community, and you will lead the professionalisation agenda with partners across HMG and law enforcement. You will also lead engagement on Intelligence issues with external oversight bodies such as the Information Commissioner, Investigatory Powers Commissioner and the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI).