The NCA is looking for exceptional leaders to fill a number of Deputy Director (DD) vacancies across our Senior Leadership Team. These are high profile roles at the heart of the NCA’s Senior Leadership Team which provide unequalled opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the agency.

Job description

Deputy Director Legal is one of the key leadership roles in the NCA, deputising for the agency's Legal Advisor. This key role provides strong leadership and effective management of a large team of around 50 lawyers and non-lawyers, thereby ensuring the delivery of timely, effective and high quality legal advice.
The post-holder will be required to demonstrate a strong commitment to developing staff; strategic direction and a risk-based oversight of challenging cases; the ability to build strong relationships with partners; and provide high quality oral and written legal advice and briefings to senior officials on legal issues relevant to the NCA.
 

Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities for the role;

• Reporting to the Legal Adviser, managing the Senior Leadership team and providing oversight and guidance on a wide range of litigation and advisory issues affecting the NCA.
• Ensuring an optimum professional environment for lawyers, paralegals and business support staff to deliver high quality legal services, this may include a range of corporate activities including managing budgets, recruitment campaigns and ensuring that staff development and training is in place.
• Maintaining credible relationships with counterparts across law enforcement, the CPS, the intelligence community and Whitehall departments.
• The provision of timely and enabling accurate legal advice at senior levels within the organisation, including deputising for the Legal Adviser at key governance meetings.

Other corporate leadership responsibilities include;

• Deliver effective business management to support the delivery of Agency transformation.
• Lead and develop agency process and procedure to drive operational outcomes.
• Act as a role model who leads, inspires, motivates, empowers and develops officers within own Command and across the Agency and achieves high standards for both self and others.
• Inspire confidence at the highest level. Regularly steps outside own business area and actively influences peers, senior leaders and key stakeholders to further NCA aims.
• Create and build constructive and positive partnerships and actively seek to build collaborative working arrangements within the Agency, Home Office, wider Government and the law Enforcement community in the UK and abroad.

For further Information surrounding specific responsibilities for the role please see the candidate Information Pack.

*** DV/STRAP are essential for these roles. The posts are only open to UK nationals. ***

Qualifications

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

• The post-holder must be qualified to practice as a lawyer in England and Wales.

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.

Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.

Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Developed Vetting (DV)

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.