Essential Criteria:
In your application you will need to demonstrate evidence against the below essential criteria:
We ask that you write a statement of suitability of no more than two pages A4 font Arial using examples to explain how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria.
- Inclusive leadership skills – comfortable operating in a complex operational environment, with a demonstrable commitment to lead, develop and nurture a highly performing, diverse and talented workforce based in the UK and overseas.
- Experience of building effective partnerships across government, UK public and private sectors and with international partners at a strategic level. You will feel comfortable communicating complex issues to a wide audience, including ministers and the media.
- A proven track record of successfully managing political and operational risks at senior level.
- Evidence of articulating a strategic forward vision for a large, complex organisation or system, influencing up and out across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure engagement and secure support.
- The ability to lead and deliver change, with a track record of delivering substantial improvements to increase operational effectiveness and value for money, including through running programmes and setting up new capabilities.
- Experience of delivering interventions that ensure that Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) is embedded in the organisation’s way of working, fostering a culture of trust which enables people to speak up, feel safe and advocate for others.
- Experience of delivering effective operational activity in law enforcement and intelligence, and working collaboratively with a wide range of law enforcement and intelligence partners.
- Experience of working in, or exposure to, international operations with a strong understanding of international law enforcement.
At interview, we will explore technical experience in more depth, and align to the behaviours:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Culture/EDI
Please Note
The NCA is a 24/7 organisation, and working patterns must support business requirements. All SCS1 officers are expected to participate in an on-call rota (approx. 2 – 3 weeks per year).
On-call runs 1800-0800 Mon-Fri and 24/7 weekends and bank holidays and training will be given prior to joining the rota.
This is a corporate requirement and no additional remuneration is paid.
Examples for on-call include staffing incidents; building issues (flooding etc); operational incidents; cross-government liaison.
You will be required to be in the office at least 60% of the time in line with CS policy, but this cannot be guaranteed and will change from week-to-week based on business needs and security constraints.
Frequent attendance at our London office, if not based there, will be required for this role as well as regular international travel.
Individuals will be required to undertake and pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.
If successful, the offer made will be conditional on you being able to obtain and retain security clearance Developed Vetting (DV) prior to commencing in the role.
You must be able to obtain STRAP once in post.
We want to recruit and retain the very best and broadest diversity of officers so the NCA welcomes applications from individuals from all minority backgrounds and protected characteristics.
Please be aware that you can be posted to any location that you put in your preferences. If you would only like to be posted to one location, please confirm one location only.
If you are posted to a location that you have requested and you do not accept that location, you may not be offered another role.
- Ability to acquire and retain Developed Vetting (DV) status.
