Role Title: Director Investigations
Grade/pay band: Director (SCS2)
Command: Operations
Reports to: Director General Operations
Location: You can be based in London*, Bristol, Birmingham or Warrington – however, this role will require frequent attendance at our London offices so you will need to be prepared to spend time there.
*Your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford.
Role Summary
Provide clear leadership and direction to the Operations directorate on both proactive and reactive investigations, ensuring that our resources are targeted against the highest priority threats, and the full range of disruptive options are considered in the UK and overseas.
Main Responsibilities
Fulfil the role of Head of Profession for Investigation within the NCA, providing talent management and opportunities for learning across the directorate professionalising the investigations community and seeking opportunities to address future capability and skills gaps. Looking across the agency and outside to nurture new talent and building a responsive investigations cohort who have the necessary skills to be deployed against the changing SOC threat.
Lead a team of high performing investigators who are capable of delivering both reactive and proactive investigations, making judgements according to the threat whilst ensuring high levels of welfare and professionalism are maintained. Promote priorities, objectives and wellbeing to the directorate through the clear communication of the organisational strategy.
Maintain criminal justice standards delivering, high quality prosecutions and casework with prosecutors.
Ensure that investigation activity is suitably briefed to stakeholders, partners and the wider agency including under the accountability regime.
To lead transformational change within the Command developing tactics, capabilities and ways of working that respond to the changing threat environment.