National Crime Agency (NCA)
Senior Officer - Strategic Insights, Risk and Assurance(SIRA)
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Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Warrington
Job Summary
About the Role
Information About The Command
The Strategy Directorate drives NCA strategic mission through rigorous intelligence insights, performance insights, risk management and communications. We shape priorities and build influence across government, law enforcement and the public.
Information About The Business Area
Governance & Accountability lead the design and delivery of Agency frameworks on accountability performance, risk, assurance, governance, in order to ensure the Agency is transparent, accountable and delivering against its strategic objectives. Governance & Accountability has a wide and varied portfolio, ensuring the Director General and NEDS have confidence in the governance frameworks for the NCA; and maintaining trust and transparency with the Home Office and that the NCA’s operational delivery plans appropriately deliver the Home Secretary’s strategic priorities.
Role Summary
Be part of the team that helps the National Crime Agency understand how it is delivering on its mission to protect the public from serious and organised crime, providing independent insight and assurance that strengthen accountability and help the Agency improve.
The Strategic Insights, Risk and Assurance Team (SIRA) helps the Agency understand performance, evaluate impact and manage risk across a complex threat landscape. By bringing together performance, risk, assurance and strategy, it gives senior leaders a clear, joined-up view of delivery, challenges and accountability.
The Performance Team tracks how the NCA is delivering operationally and strategically. It produces agency and national reporting, assures operational outcomes, supports ministerial reporting, and oversees key systems including MoRiLE and APMIS. This gives leaders a clear, data-driven view of impact, delivery and accountability across the response to serious and organised crime.
The Risk Team identifies and manages barriers to the Agency achieving its objectives. Through Enterprise Risk Management, it maintains the Corporate Risk Register, advises senior leaders, and supports risk ownership across directorates to help ensure the NCA remains prepared, resilient and informed.
The Assurance Team provides confidence that governance, risk management and controls are operating effectively. It coordinates audit and inspection activity, tracks recommendations, and draws together assurance evidence to give senior leaders a clear view of risks, control effectiveness and areas for improvement.
Job Description
As a SIRA Senior Officer, you will play a key role in shaping reporting, governance and assurance products, working with stakeholders across the Agency to ensure senior leaders have clear evidence, insight and advice to support decision-making. You will be responsible for the quality and delivery of assigned products, reporting cycles or thematic areas, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and focused on what senior leaders need to know and do..
The part time minimum hours for this role are 21 hours ***
Duties and Responsibilities
As a SIRA Senior Officer, You Will:
- Shape performance, risk and assurance products so they are accurate, timely and aligned to senior governance needs.
- Interpret qualitative and quantitative evidence, identifying key findings, risks, implications and recommended actions.
- Provide clear advice and recommendations to support senior decisions on performance, delivery, risk and assurance.
- Engage stakeholders across the Agency, including senior users of SIRA products and governance leads.
- Coordinate assigned reporting cycles, governance processes, risk themes or assurance activity.
- Quality-assure analysis, briefings and reports so outputs are clear, evidence-based and focused on decision-making.
- Identify improvements to reporting, assurance, governance or risk processes, using evidence and feedback.
- Coordinate input from colleagues and stakeholders to produce joined-up insight.
- Provide guidance to colleagues and support consistent standards across the team.
- Where required, undertake line management responsibilities in line with the final team structure.
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Person specification
We Are Looking For Someone Who Can:
- Analyse complex information and translate it into clear findings, implications and recommendations to support decision-making.
- Produce high-quality written products and present advice clearly to senior stakeholders, including risks, options and recommended next steps.
- Engage and influence stakeholders across different teams, coordinating input, resolving issues and supporting joined-up delivery.
- Manage assigned products, processes or workstreams, maintaining quality, accuracy and pace.
- Support others to deliver consistent standards and improve ways of working through guidance, assurance, evidence and feedback.
Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £47,049, National Crime Agency contributes £13,630 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Roles based in London will receive an additional London Weighting (Per Annum) of £4,379 New entrants to the NCA receive 26 days annual leave, rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service, plus 8 bank holidays.
If qualifying criteria is met new joiners from UK Police Forces or the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC) will have service with those employers taken into account for continuous service purposes for annual leave entitlement only, this will be up to a maximum of 31 days leave (including 1 privilege day).
Other Benefits Include:
- Flexible working, including flexi-time, compressed hours and job sharing (in line with business requirements)
- Family friendly policies, notably above the statutory minimum
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Interest free loans and advances, including season tickets, childcare and rental deposits
- Housing schemes - Key Worker status
- Discounts and Savings with a wide variety of services including Cycle to Work, Smart Tech schemes, dental insurance, gym discounts and savings on everyday spending, available through the Reward Gateway, Edenred and Blue Light Card schemes.
- Staff support groups/networks
- Sports and social activities, including membership to the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)
Further information is available on the NCA Website.
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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
How We Will Assess You
Your application will be assessed against the following:
Technical - this will be assessed by 250 word examples on:
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- Presenting information and adapting communication styles for a wide range of audiences.
Experience - This Will Be Assessed:
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Experience Criteria - will be assessed by 250 word examples on:
- Experience in analysis skills and informed decision making and risk identification/mitigation
- Building Relationships, Influencing Stakeholders and Delivering Shared Outcomes
- Experience in planning and delivery
A panel will assess how well your application demonstrates the requirements outlined above.
Longlist
In the event of a high number of applications, we may operate a longlist. Applicants will need to meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria.
Experience in analysis skills and informed decision making and risk identification/mitigation.
Candidates who do not meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria will not progress to having their other criteria assessed. Applications must meet the minimum criteria to be progressed to the assessment stage.
You will receive an acknowledgement once your application is submitted.
We aim to have sift completed and scores released within 10 working days of the closing date of the advert. For high volume campaigns this timeframe may be extended.
Scores will be provided but further feedback will not be available at this stage.
For Guidance On The Application Process, Visit:
NCA Applying and Onboarding
Assessment 1
The format of this assessment will be Interview which will be tested on the criteria listed in the Success Profiles at Assessment section.
Success Profiles at Assessment
Behaviours
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
Technical
- Presenting information and adapting communication styles for a wide range of audiences.
Experience
- Experience in analysis skills and informed decision making and risk identification/mitigation
- Building Relationships, Influencing Stakeholders and Delivering Shared Outcomes
- Experience in planning and delivery
Assessment Outcome
Outcomes will be communicated via the NCA recruitment portal.
If successful but no role is immediately available, you may be placed on a reserve list for 12 months.
Reserve lists can be used to fill similar role types across the Agency where the assessment criteria is considered a match by the recruitment team and the business area.
In The Event Of a Tie At The Assessment Stage, Available Roles Will Be Offered In Merit Order Using The Following Order:
- Lead criteria (behaviours/technical/experience)
- If still tied, desirable criteria will be assessed (if advertised)
- If still tied, application sift scores will be used
Feedback is provided only to those who attend an assessment.
You will be subject to vetting and pre-employment checks before appointment.
Once the vacancy closes, the advert will no longer be accessible. Please save a copy for your records.
We encourage all candidates to visit the NCA Careers Page for more information.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
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