You will help to drive the national response to one of the Serious Organised Crime Threats and work with partners both inside the NCA and externally to set the strategic direction, facilitate effective delivery of the response, and ensure we understand the impact of all activity.

NCA Threat Leadership’s role is to drive and plan the most effective and impactful national response to the Serious and Organised Crime threats, protecting the public by demonstrably degrading those threats using all law enforcement and partner powers and capabilities.

Job description

You will ensure alignment of the Strategic Action Plan, to the threat and wider strategies, and drive pursue and prevent deliverables.

You will also need to assist in driving the development of threat specific capabilities, including monitoring spend and delivery.

We are looking for candidates that are dynamic, flexible, engaging and inspiring senior leaders with the ability to develop and drive innovative ways of examining the enablers of serious and organised crime (against the key threats).

The NCA is responsible for leading the national response to the SOC threats. Our role is to work with partners at senior level in law enforcement, Government, private and third sectors and overseas to set the strategic direction, to drive and plan effective delivery of the response, and ensure we understand the impact of UK and international activity to reduce the threats. The individual threat teams lead the overall, multi-agency response to the threat through chairing the strategic governance group, which owns and assures delivery against the common plan to tackle the threat and agrees organisational roles and responsibilities.
 

Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities:

• Commissioning intelligence activity to meet strategic and tactical needs and adopting a threat led and intelligence driven approach, identifying emerging challenges and changes to the threat and response landscapes
• Creating and maintaining strong, influential relationships both within the NCA and with partners across Iaw enforcement, Government, private and other sectors.
• Applying specialist threat knowledge to develop the strategic approach to the threat and influencing senior partners
• Driving the multi-agency UK 4P (PURSUE, PREVENT, PROTECT, PREPARE) response by agreeing threat priorities, influencing tasking of operational activity across law enforcement, facilitating partner action and informing policy, regulatory and legislative changes to better protect the public.
• Providing strategic governance across all partners and agreeing organisational roles and responsibilities
• Leading multi-functional teams responsible for the development of high priority projects (including building law enforcement capability); tactical, strategic intelligence, analytical and/or prevention initiatives.
• Understanding the impact of the national response and driving SOC system wide change activity (mitigating barriers, building capability, leading innovation, securing investment funding or improving impact) to develop capabilities to respond to the threats.

***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:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership

Technical skills

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

• Proven experience of leading and managing a multifunctional team.
• A broad understanding of UK Government or law enforcement and skills for working in partnership successfully at a strategic level.

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