Senior Officer, National Economic Crime Centre

Birmingham and London

• . For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Vauxhall, or such other reasonable location, on a temporary basis. For the avoidance of doubt as your contractual place of work is Stratford, the move from any temporary place of work will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy., Economic Crime affects more UK citizens that any other criminal threat. It undermines the integrity of the UK economy, our global reputation, security, and prosperity of countries around the world. As a global financial centre, our openness to trade and investment, and ease of doing business are vital for the UK's prosperity. However, our financial systems and strong economy continue to be exploited by those seeking to generate, move and invest in criminal money, from street cash to the highest levels of bribery and corruption.

We have opportunities available in:
Illicit Finance Threat Team: The Illicit Finance Threat Team aims to be the cross-system hub for overseeing, directing and supporting the UK’s response to money laundering, bribery and corruption.
+ Co-ordinate - The teams purpose is to hold and mature a comprehensive understanding of the threat and the UK’s response, and use data and operational insight to design initiatives, partnerships, reporting and specialist services to end the era of the UK as a safe haven for illicit finance
+ Engage - We work with a wide range of stakeholders including government departments, law enforcement, civil society, regulators and the private sector to promote a whole system approach to tackling key risk areas.
+ Policy - We work with HMG to identify and drive areas for legislative change, Companies House reform, Money Laundering Regulation Reform and ensure legislation is effective. We utilise subject matter expertise to advise HMG and gather evidence including case studies.
+ Add-value - We prioritise threats, identify emerging trends, extract learning and support law enforcement in getting maximum intelligence and investigatory value from all available sources.
+ Emerging Trends - We commission research into intelligence gaps, and develop own capability to produce reports and recommendations on key illicit finance trends and utilise that knowledge to prioritise threats and design response plans.
+ Operational - We ensure that Operations are focused on our priorities, identify barriers to delivery and resolve.
Public Private Partnership Team: An established partnership between UK law enforcement, government and private sector, using NCA capabilities to innovate in sharing intelligence and data.
+ Ambition - We want the NECC to become a genuine public private hub for combating economic crime; bringing greater coherence to public private engagement and leverage capability from public and private partners to deliver on our ambition.
+ Optimise - We use all of our collective capabilities to prevent, identify and disrupt economic crime.
+ Economic Crime Plan - We respond to the highest harm threat and risks as they emerge.
Strategy: The Strategy Team anticipates changes in the economic crime landscape to inform and shape strategies, policies, influence legislative change and secure partner co-operation.
+ Strategy - We develop and drive the overarching NECC Strategy, set the engagement priorities and lead the implementation of our People Strategy.
+ Engagement - We co-ordinate across the threat teams and rest of the NCA to produce supporting material for high level strategic events including committees, enquiries and public appearances.
+ Advise - We provide advice to senior leaders and the wider Command in support of fulfilling strategic ambitions, working across the NECC, NCA and Whitehall.
+ Communicate – We promote the activities of the NECC to keep our Officers, Partners and the Public informed of our response.
NECC Operations: NECC Operations is the operational arm of the NECC, leading and coordinating our law enforcement response to Economic threats.
+ Deliver - Drive operational outcomes across the system aligned to agreed Threat Lead priorities.
+ Assesses - Utilise capabilities & capacity across the system to ensure high priority opportunities to reduce harm and protect the public are maximised.
+ Collaborates - Build & maintain exceptional working relationships with key operational partners across the system and leverage them to maximise delivery and understanding of threat.
Fraud: The Fraud Threat Lead team are at the heart of driving forward the UK Fraud Strategy to block fraud, pursue fraudsters and empower people to reduce the scale and harm of fraud.
+ Situational Awareness - We are at the centre of the UK response to fraud and provide bespoke briefings to NCA senior leadership and government ministers on fraud trends as well as emerging threats such as the criminal use of AI (Artificial Intelligence).
+ Policy Development - We co-ordinate multi-agency PROTECT initiatives to enhance the UK system response to fraud such as supporting Ofcom in performing its regulatory duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 which presents significant opportunities to combat online fraud.
+ Operational Coordination - We support UK law enforcement operational activities to PURSUE organised criminal groups by implementing system-level changes to improve operational delivery such as the establishment of a new national Fraud Targeting Cell. Operational activity increasingly requires cooperation with international partners and multi-lateral organisations such as Europol and Interpol to successfully target fraudsters operating outside of the UK.
+ Stakeholder Engagement - We collaborate with tech, financial and telecommunication industries to develop effective PREVENT mechanisms that block criminal access to victims.
+ Fraud Awareness - We deliver media strategies to empower people to reduce the harm from fraud such as the UK Government Stop ! Think Fraud Campaign.

• To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role. Some roles may require up to DV Clearance.


Person specification
Main Responsibilities vary depending on which team you join. These include, but are not limited to:
Illicit Finance Threat Team
+ Threat Desks: Dedicated Threat Desks focused on deploying subject matter expertise to a range of 3P projects and public and private sector partnerships. This includes coordinating the UK response in priority areas such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, asset denial, state linked illicit finance; crypto-assets and tech enablers, international projects & tactical partnerships.
+ Research & Insights: Using NCA and partner operational insight and data, producing reporting and recommendations on key illicit finance trends, building strong networks across academia and the private sector.
+ Operational Planning & Performance: Exploiting insights and partnerships to set clear operational plans and a consistent pipeline of high impact initiatives, evaluating and learning from our performance.
+ Knowledge & capacity building: Developing a network of specialist expert witnesses and asset tracers, using this expertise to develop capability & capacity
Public Private Partnership Team
+ Working collaboratively as part of a multi-agency, multi-functional team to establish the NECC as a centre of excellence in co-ordinating the UK’s response to the threat posed by economic crime.
+ Developing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors both domestically and internationally;
+ Delivering written and verbal outputs including strategic intelligence products, alerts to the financial industry, and management and partner briefings ensuring a consistent and professional narrative across all such outputs’
+ Identifying new opportunities for JMLIT intervention. Coordinating, developing and authorising case referrals under Section 7 Crime and Courts Act 2013 from JMLIT partners and maintaining and updating accurate case work records;
+ Act as Single Point of Contact (SPoC) for groups within the JMLIT+ model, ensuring both the PPP team and NECC Threat Leads are briefed on progress and opportunities for collaboration across JMLIT+ groups and with internal and external partners;
+ Performance reporting and analysis against key money laundering threats and enablers as well as supervising the development, collation and co-ordination of management information;
+ Line management responsibilities of NECC Officers; supervising and supporting them in the completion of their responsibilities across the team which ensuring that they are continuously developing in their role;
Strategy
+ As a stakeholder Engagement Advisor you will lead on high level senior engagements and developing relationships, both internally and externally, to deliver the NECC priorities.
+ You will collate information from a range of sources in to clear written and verbal communication for a wide range of audiences including senior leaders, partners and the public.
+ You will develop strategies to enable the NECC to meet its priorities and record our progress against them.
NECC Operations
+ Economic Crime Officers will respond to opportunities/tasking’s across the Fraud and Illicit finance threat landscape.
+ Run regular intensification exercises to deliver a better response against the threat priorities.
Fraud:
+ Providing subject matter expertise on the fraud threat and response – using the strategic intelligence picture; an understanding of the political situation; and information relating to on-going 4P work, to influence operational priorities and drive a more effective response in the UK and overseas.
+ Supporting the development and delivery of strategic priorities for the operational system, under the HO Fraud Strategy, focused on multi-agency opportunities.
+ Delivering projects and initiatives through multi-agency working to tackle priority issues, and evaluating activity for its impact on fraud.
+ Engaging stakeholders to build a stronger network to more effectively tackle the fraud threat and supporting seniors to galvanise the wider system by providing strategic briefings.
+ Development of quality written products, including papers and slides, to support engagement, decision-making, and policy development.
+ Working with and through the wider team, contributing to an inclusive team culture, and ensuring work is effectively joined-up.

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Working Together
+ Changing and Improving, You will be asked to complete a CV as part of the application process. Your CV should set out your career history including training and qualifications, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure that each entry of your career history also has a few sentences outlining a description and the key elements of that role, and that you provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years. Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on are entered onto the CV. Experience criteria can also be assessed from CV.
+ CV – Experience in a Law Enforcement, financial crime or comparable setting and ability to build expertise in economic crime.
+ 2x Technical skills via a 250 word Statement of Suitability per criteria, as listed above.
For further application guidance please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers/applying-and-onboarding
Once submitted your application will be acknowledged by the Government Recruitment Service.
Please note depending on the volume of applications a Longlist at sift may be conducted on following criteria:
+ Experience of working collaboratively with Law Enforcement, HMG and/or private sector partners to build consensus and respond to identified threats.
Candidates must pass this criteria for their application to be progressed.
A panel will then assess your application to select those demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence you have provided against the criteria set out in the Entry Criteria section.
Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.
Sift results are expected to be released w/c Monday 24th June 2024.
Interview Details
You will then be asked to attend an interview in order to have a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence.
There will be one round of interview, and you will be assessed against the 2x Behaviour and 1x Technical criteria, as listed above. There will also be 3x Strength based questions.
The Behaviour questions will be provided to candidates 1 hour before their scheduled interview.
Interviews will take place throughout July 2024 - locations to be confirmed. Please be advised that the type of interview (eg. virtual/face-to-face) may be subject to change and successful candidates will be notified of this prior to attending. However the interview is conducted, the interview criteria will remain as detailed within this advert.
The above sift and interview dates are an indicative timeline.
Should you be successful at sift but cannot attend on the interview date(s) listed the recruitment team cannot guarantee an alternative date. Please contact the recruitment team.
Full details of the assessment process will be made available to shortlisted candidates.
Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Any instances of plagiarism including copying of examples/answers from internet sources will result in a withdrawal of your application. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.
Interview Outcome
Candidates will be alerted of the outcome of their interview via their CS Jobs Portal. We will be retaining a candidate pool of successful applicants to draw from as vacancies arise for up to 12 months.
If your application is successful and we are unable to offer you a post immediately, you will be invited to join our reserve list. If over the next 12 months we are able to offer you a position, we will contact you as soon as possible.
Once we make you an offer you will then go through our vetting and pre-employment checks processes.
All Appointments will be made in location merit order.
Multi-Location
Where more than one location is advertised, candidates will be appointed in merit order for each location. You will be asked to state your location preference on your application.
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.
Please note, only advertised location can be offered. Notes populated in a free text box will not be taken into consideration.
Near Miss
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.
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.
Hybrid Working
Here at the NCA we have a hybrid working arrangement in place enabling officers to work a proportion of their role remotely. Eligibility and the degree of home working will vary depending on the requirements of the role. Further details can be discussed at offer stage.
Reasonable Adjustment
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. As part of our application process you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process that you may need. If you have a disability or long-term condition (a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long term effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Inclusion and Accessibility
We are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader we are committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. For details of the available group please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers/benefits-and-support
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. You will be asked to complete an E-consent survey asking for permission to share this data with the NCA to be used for statistical/monitoring purposes only, refusal of consent to share the information will not impact your application.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Additional Information
+ The NCA is a 24/7 organisation, and working patterns must support business requirements. Some roles may require you to respond at short notice or outside of core hours.
+ Individuals will be required to undertake and pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.
+ Successful candidates may be required to undertake a medical. If required, the medical will take place in either London or Warrington. Unfortunately, travel costs will not be reimbursed.
+ If you are an internal candidate who has passed interview but is undergoing an internal investigation or have a written warning in place preventing a post move you may not be able to be posted until this investigation is concluded or restriction lifted. You will remain on the reserve list for a max of 12 months.
+ This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.
VETTING REQUIREMENTS SC
All security clearances require you to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK.
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
If you require SC clearance you will need to provide evidence of the below requirements.
Checks will be made against:
+ Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
+ UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
+ Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
+ Security Services records
VETTING REQUIREMENTS - DV
All security clearances require you to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK.
The requirement for DV is to have been present in the UK for at least 7 of the last 10 years.
Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
If you require DV clearance you will need to provide evidence of the below requirements.
Checks will be made against:
+ successful completion of the BPSS
+ UK criminal record and identity checks
+ credit reference checks
+ relevant personnel and medical checks (if required)
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
We encourage all candidates to visit the NCA careers page for further information please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers
If you have any specific queries about the role that are not covered by the candidate pack, please contact:
ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., + UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window)., If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint in relation to any stage of the recruitment and selection process please email Central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk. please ensure that you refer to the campaign reference number. If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of your complaint you have the right to contact the Civil Service Commission to pursue it further.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-complaints

As a Senior Officer within the NECC, you will be a part of a dynamic response to economic crime protecting the public and communities we serve.
The roles available are exciting opportunities for motivated, hardworking and self-starting individuals to join one of our thriving and diverse teams.
We are looking for someone who can build strong working relationships across different departments, teams and an ability to adapt and prioritise in a fast paced environment., + Experience of working collaboratively with Law Enforcement, HMG and/or private sector partners to build consensus and respond to identified threats.
+ Analytical mind set, experience of working with intelligence, evidence or sensitive data to develop solutions and communicate them clearly.

The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is a multi-agency centre, established to deliver changes in the response to tackling economic crime.
The NECC brings together law enforcement agencies, government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector, with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK.
The NECC is hosted by the NCA and has a multi-agency structure, staffed by a mixture of NCA officers and secondees partners, including the private sector. We are a diverse, dynamic centre with a strong focus on developing and up-skilling our staff.
From targeting corrupt elites to tackling fraud, our work is high profile and focused on protecting the most vulnerable.

Alongside your salary of £41,347, National Crime Agency contributes £11,163 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:
+ Civil Service pension scheme
+ 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service