UK Home Office
Senior Intelligence Analyst
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Senior Intelligence Analyst
Location: Portsmouth
Salary: £49,850 - £52,850
Benefits:
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Business area:
Home Office - Border Security Command - Joint Maritime Security Centre
Border Security Command works to disrupt and dismantle organised immigration crime, including organised criminal gangs. We reduce illicit goods and irregular migration and deliver detection and interception at the border. We safeguard people exploited through trafficking and smuggling and help build public confidence in the UK’s border security.
The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) is a multi-agency, military-civil organisation hosted by the Home Office that acts as the UK government’s centre of excellence for maritime security. Its mission is to increase awareness and understanding of maritime security threats and enable cross-government coordination to deliver a whole-system response to mitigate them.
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Job description
As a Senior Analyst in the JMSC Sanctions Assessment Team, you will lead the delivery of high-impact assessments on maritime sanctions-related activity, shaping analytic direction and assuring tradecraft standards. Working to the Assistant Director, you will set approaches for complex assessments, determine evidence thresholds, and apply accountable judgement under uncertainty.
As the potential first point of contact for emerging maritime events, you will be expected to apply sound judgement and escalate issues to senior leaders to enable an effective and timely response.
Essential Criteria
- Developed Vetting (DV) clearance required.
- Lead complex assessments end-to-end, setting analytic direction, evidence standards and quality thresholds, and exercising accountable judgement under uncertainty.
- Shape and deliver the team’s programme, brokering priorities across partners, sequencing work to land deadlines, and maintaining rigorous sanctions horizon scanning to inform JMSC and wider HMG objectives.
- Provide analytical leadership, championing PHIA-compliant tradecraft, applying and enforcing structured analytic techniques, and leading peer review and quality assurance.
- Represent JMSC authoritatively, building and leading domestic and international partnerships, chairing engagements, and delivering concise, executive-level briefings at pace.
- Demonstrate expert maritime and sanctions awareness, integrating routing anomalies, obfuscation methods, insurance/class/flag risk and energy-market dynamics to support policy and operational partners; lead operational response during urgent tasking.
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Occasional travel will be required to partner locations across the UK, or in some limited cases travel to overseas. Overnight stays may be necessary on occasion.
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