Intelligence Officers

Job description:

This contract with our central government client is for an Intelligence Officer for one year. The role is located in Warrington and requires full time in the office. The pay rate is £126.51 PAYE, £170.71 Umbrella per day.  

Responsibilities & Duties:  

- The client requires Intelligence Officers to work specifically in their Child Sexual Exploitation office in Warrington. As an Intelligence Officer in this role, you will regularly view reports and assess Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation material (this includes images, media and chat) which constitute a criminal offence.  

- As part of this proactive intelligence function, your task will be to identify the location of the child or subjects (offenders), utilising a variety of intelligence development techniques, working within relevant legislation. Officers will be required to perform download responsibilities such as geo-locating referrals and assessing material. You will need to make sure that corporate records are maintained as to the action and casework that is undertaken.  

- Key to the role is an enquiring mind and ability to think laterally so that the right intelligence development technique is used to identify those who exploit children.  

- You must be resilient as the nature of the material viewed can be challenging. This is why welfare and wellness is a unit priority, You will be supported through specialist support mechanisms at individual, team and unit levels and within the team you will also play an active role in the client's wellness and wellbeing activities.  

- As part of the recruitment process you will need to have a Psychological Assessment conducted by Psychologists within their Occupational Health team to assess your suitability for the role.  

- It is essential, therefore, that you are willing to work with child sexual abuse and exploitation material.  

Requirements:

Entry Criteria:  

1) Proven experience of working to tight deadlines.  

2) Analysing information from a wide range of sources.  

3) Risk management skills.  

4) Safeguarding experience beneficial  

5) Analysis, risk assessments, research and analysts experience essential  

Top 3 criteria  

1) Experience of working in this field of work previously / Safeguarding experience  

2) Law enforcement experience  

3) Research & Analysis / risk assessment experience  

Qualifications  

Beneficial to have Level of Open source experience