We are currently looking to recruit a G2 Outreach & Liaison Senior Manager in our London site.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and credible person to establish and lead a new outreach and liaison function for TRACER. This role will be at the heart of work to equip the police and intelligence community to address the threats and opportunities arising from the digital revolution, and will act as a bridge between research & development and operational communities.

TRACER is a multi-agency team, based in the National Crime Agency (NCA) and working on behalf of the operational policing and intelligence community. TRACER has two key roles: to monitor trends in the digital communications environment and the impact of these on operational capabilities, and sponsoring innovation to address the threats and opportunities that are identified as a result. In order to do this TRACER needs to engage with a wide range of stakeholders both within the NCA, across the operational community, and beyond, including wider government, academia, industry and others involved in technological innovation and its impact on society.

The outreach and liaison function that TRACER is establishing is about building a network of expertise that can inform and enhance this work. The aim being to provide a resource that TRACER can draw upon to consult and collaborate with in addressing challenges and opportunities identified through the strategic threat and risk assessment (STRA).
 

Responsibilities

• Development, implementation and maintenance of TRACER’s outreach and liaison strategy and plan in support of overall business plan and priorities
• Maintaining and developing a network of outreach and liaison contacts across government, academia, research institutions, think tanks, industry and civil society
• Development, implementation and oversight of research and outreach projects in response to agreed priorities
• Initiating, planning and running a focused programme of outreach and liaison events and communications in support of the strategy
• Developing outreach and liaison enabling functions including communications collateral, information sharing arrangements and stakeholder management
• Supporting wider TRACER assessment and innovation and proposition activity

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Understanding of the digital communications landscape (policy, research or operations) and trends around development and adoption of new technologies.
• Proficiency in engaging confidently with a diverse range of stakeholders with different understanding and agendas.
• Ability to navigate a complex ecosystem and to raise awareness of outreach and liaison events.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.