Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Reporting and Insights Officer
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Job Summary
The AI Security Institute (AISI) is the largest team in a government dedicated to understanding AI capabilities and risks in the world.
Our mission is to equip governments with an empirical understanding of the safety of advanced AI systems. We conduct research to understand the capabilities and impacts of advanced AI, and develop and test risk mitigations. We focus on risks with security implications, including the potential of AI to assist with the development of chemical and biological weapons, how it can be used to carry out cyber-attacks, enable crimes such as fraud, and the possibility of loss of control.
The risks from AI are not sci-fi, they are urgent. By combining the agility of a tech start-up with the expertise and mission-driven focus of government, we’re building a unique and innovative organisation to prevent AI’s harms from impeding its potential.
Job Description
The AI Safety Institute (AISI) is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented SEO to support the delivery of high-impact reporting products that translate technical insights on artificial intelligence (AI) risks into accessible, policy-relevant outputs for policy and assessment customers. Generating world-leading scientific insights into AI risk is only the beginning – those insights must reach the right decision makers at the right time.
Working closely with the G7 Reporting Lead and AISI’s Research Unit, you will play a key role in shaping how AISI communicates its findings across government, converting our research outputs into short, decision-relevant reports for time-poor policy makers and risk owners and disseminating these across HMG.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver reporting products that meet government user needs and uphold methodological rigour.
- Help integrate AISI insights into national security assessments, assisting the G7 reporting lead in representing AISI publications and insights at the appropriate forums.
- Assist in building and maintaining feedback mechanisms to improve the quality and relevance of AISI outputs, collecting metrics of impact from AISI reports and feeding these back to the authoring teams and senior leadership.
- Develop a strong working relationship with the delivery managers from the technical teams within AISI’s Research Unit to anticipate upcoming research outputs, and build a quarterly forecast of upcoming publications so that AISI reporting products can be resourced and prioritised.
- Make AISI products accessible across government platforms, maintaining and continuously improving the systems we use to share AISI reports across HMG – including email distribution lists, SharePoint, INDEX and national security databases. This includes monitoring these systems and responding to requests to quote AISI reporting or requests to share it with a wider audience.
- Assist the G7 reporting lead in delivering on our strategy for sharing AISI reporting with allied governments.
- Develop a deep knowledge of AISI’s research output and be able to speak authoritatively in cross HMG fora on AISI’s areas of published reporting.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape how the UK Government responds to emerging AI risks.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria:
- Deep commitment to public service and long-term impact.
- Excellent communication skills, especially with technical content.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively and excellent attention to detail.
- Proven ability to deliver in a fast-changing environment.
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Desirable Criteria:
- Familiarity with cross HMG publishing infrastructure (SharePoint, INDEX, Outlook distribution tools) and the processes for sharing reporting across government and with international partners.
- Familiarity with intelligence assessment methodologies.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £47,355, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £13,718 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides here.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
Office Attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance here for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please use your personal statement (in no more than 500 words) to advise how you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Applications will be sifted on when the job closes.
Please note - the CV incorporated into the application form is for information purposes only and will not be scored.
The interview will consist of 3 stages assessing behaviours and experience with a written task in interview 2.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information
Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.
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If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Candidates who meet the minimum benchmark may be placed on a Reserve List for consideration for similar roles, including those at a lower grade. Candidates who narrowly miss the benchmark and are not placed on the Reserve List may still be considered for an offer in a similar role at a lower grade.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.
DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).
DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service and Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
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Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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