AddressLocation of Role: Colchester
Advert Closing Date: 08/03/2024
Starting Salary: £45,546.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Shift not 24/7
Weekend/Evening Working: Yes
Kent Police & Essex Police have recently transformed their digital service to adapt and take advantage of the latest technology and infrastructure available. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to undertake the role of Senior Digital Forensic Specialist within Kent & Essex Digital Services.
Currently we have a vacancy at Colchester Police Station. The new Digital Services’ structure has been designed to provide the best possible career progression and CPD framework to ensure you will have the tools and necessary experience to carry out first class Digital Forensic investigations.
You will manage the performance and activities of a team of Digital Forensic staff by coordinating and prioritising the operational requests and demand for Digital Forensic data acquisition and analysis, ensuring that the forensics procedures are carried out efficiently and are quality controlled and adhere to relevant ISO accreditations. You will maintain a personal caseload as an expert practitioner, ensuring that the team provides effective, efficient, and evidentially sound Digital Forensic support to investigators to support the criminal justice process.
Digital devices and information communication technology are present in almost every investigation the Police Service undertakes. These range from complex computer platforms to mobile phone handsets, games consoles, digital CCTV systems and satellite navigation. As digital devices continue to evolve it will be critical that you are able to adapt and learn new emerging technologies to meet the requirements of the role.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who can demonstrate the following skills and experience within their reason for application:
Advanced technical ability, including knowledge of computer and/or mobile phone hardware, software and operating systems.
You will have been educated to degree level in a relevant subject or have at least 5 years’ recent experience within a Digital Forensic service provider (law enforcement or private sector), to include experience of the leading Digital Forensic tools currently employed nationally.
You will also have experience of writing technical statements/reports and may have given evidence at court.
An understand of the quality standards ISO 17025 and how this affects the role.
The role involves the collection, extraction, interpretation and presentation of digital evidence in support of criminal investigations. This encompasses many technical and non-technical disciplines such as forensic data recovery, analysis of digital evidence and composition of technical reports. You will also be required to provide early advice to assist in the formation of digital strategies ensuring the Digital Forensic processes taken are justified, proportionate and necessary.
You will be required to develop and maintain your competence under the ISO 17025 standard requirements ensuring best practice is shared amongst colleagues. You will also be expected to implement new policies and procedures, where required, to ensure adherence to the FSR’s Code of Practice. It is expected that you will update your technical knowledge of specialised Digital Forensic procedures and advancements within the Digital Forensic field.
To balance these technical attributes, you will need to be a highly motivated team player with good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. You will have the ability to manage a high caseload and be able to utilise coaching methods to provide an environment that is both supportive and constructive to other members of the team.
In this role you will be dealing with highly sensitive and distressing information which requires you to have a high degree of emotional resilience. You will also be required to work to tight deadlines and be able to multi-task, dealing with competing demand and court requests.
The Colchester Senior Digital Forensic Specialist role is shift based, you will be working a 6-week pattern where you will be required to work 1 weekend in 6. The shifts are detailed below:
- AM shift: 0700 – 1500
- PM shift: 1200 – 2000
- Weekend shift: 0800 – 1600
This recruitment process consists of a competency-based interview involving a presentation.
Security Check (SC) Vetting is required for this post.
Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Andrew Marbrow for further information regarding the role on 07870252933.
Essex Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £48,966.00.
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Kent Police and Essex Police have separate salary grading systems therefore the salary for this position will be dependent on which home office force you are appointed to. This will be discussed with the successful applicant before a final offer is made.
Your application is shortlisted on the content provided within the 'reason for application' section, which is limited to 9000 characters. Within your answer please refer to the criteria stated in this job advert and include any experience, skills and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for the role. Please ensure you provide as much detail as possible as insufficient information may mean that you do not meet the shortlisting criteria.
All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete.
Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.
Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.
This post is open to British Citizens, members of the EC or other states in the European Economic Area. If you are a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national, you must be a resident in the UK free of restrictions and with indefinite leave to remain in the UK. All applicants must have lived in the UK continuously for the past three years.
Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.
