In order to monitor the effectiveness of the National Crime Agency’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy, the NCA require certain personal details about you on submission of your application. Please note that this will be treated in confidence and will not impact your application.
As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a diversity monitoring form. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the particular characteristics, you will have the option to select ‘prefer not to say’. All monitoring data will be treated in the strictest confidence and will not be provided to the selection panel. The information you provide when submitting your application will help us monitor our progress towards the Civil Service becoming the most inclusive employer.
Your application will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt.
Should you encounter any issues with your application please get in touch with our recruitment partner at the following email address: Richard.Grayling@green-park.co.uk
The NCA is also currently advertising for a Director Strategy. Candidates may apply for both vacancies but must submit two separate applications.
Complaints
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles or you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, please raise it with James.Greengrass@green-park.co.uk
Location
The roles are expected to be based in London*, Warrington. Please ensure you are only selecting locations you are willing to work in as you may be offered a post in any of your location preferences.
Longlisting
The longlisting will be conducted against your submitted CV and Statement of Suitability.
If required, Longlist interviews will be conducted in August 2o25.
Shortlist
A shortlisting meeting will be held in the week commencing w/c 1st September 2025.
Shortlisted candidates will be offered informal one to one chats with the vacancy holder.
Assessment
A Staff Engagement Exercise which will be delivered virtually on MS Teams during w/c 8th September 2025. In addition, you will be asked to undertake some occupational psychological assessments.
Final Panel Interview
The interview will be held in London week commencing w/c 15th September 2025.
The panel will assess your previous experience and professional competence, aligned to the Civil Service behaviours cited on page 13. You will also be asked to respond to a scenario which will be shared 45 minutes prior to the time of your final panel interview.
Full details of the requirements will be given to shortlisted candidates ahead of their interview.
Selection Panel
The panel will be chaired by Sarah Pittam, Civil Service Commissioner and will include:
- Rob Jones, NCA Director General Operations
- Martin Hewitt, Home Office Director General, Border Security Commander
- Tobi Mulder, NCA Deputy Director Estates, Transformation and Delivery
Offer
Regardless of the outcome, we will notify all candidates as soon as possible.
If your application is successful and we are unable to offer you a post immediately, you will be invited to join our reserve list so that we can continue to communicate with you regarding your employment with the Agency, and the incredible work that we do. If over the next 12 months we are able to offer you a position, we will contact you as soon as possible.
If you are found appointable at the higher grade but there are no positions available you may be offered an appointment at the lower grade.
If you are not found appointable at the advertised grade you may be offered the lower grade role if you are considered to meet the skills, experience and behaviours for the lower level. The benchmark for appointing to the lower grade is set at the start of each campaign. All offers will be made in merit.
Appointments will be made in adherence to the Civil Service Recruitment Principles and in strict merit order with the highest scoring candidates being appointed first.
The NCA is a law enforcement agency and as such we are part of the Criminal Justice System. Therefore, if you are going into an operational role we need to be aware if any of our officers have, either before they join us or afterwards, any of the following:
- Any criminal conviction (including by Court Martial), or caution or fixed penalty notice for disorder or theft;
- Any adverse judicial findings;
- Any charges or summonses where the proceedings are not complete;
- Any misconduct or gross misconduct findings or where proceedings are not complete.
You will be asked to complete a declaration form covering the above if offered a role with the NCA.
Each case will be considered on its merits and a positive declaration does not automatically mean that your application will not be progressed. However, should you fail to disclose a relevant matter then your application or employment will be adversely affected. If in doubt, please declare it at this stage.
Pre-employment checks
Pre-employment checks take on average 16 weeks from the point of offer to arranging a start date. This includes vetting, occupational health assessments, employment history checks and substance misuse tests. This is an approximate time frame and is to be taken as a guideline only as this can very between candidates. This is dependent on when all requested documentation is provided.
Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, which may be likely to some change, and are asked to exercise flexibility through the recruitment and selection process.
Individuals will be required to undertake and pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.
Please submit your application with your personal email address to ensure you receive acknowledgement of receipt.
Please note, to ensure confidentiality, applications submitted under a work email address will not receive acknowledgement of receipt.
