Vacancy reference:
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
Your CV should consist of your career history/qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role.
Your Personal Statement should address your experience to date and the following element: 750 word Statement
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Your motivations for working at Police AI
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Your experience of working with data integration, digital platforms or AI-related capabilities.
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Your experience in stakeholder and dependency management.
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Behaviour Delivering at Pace - (250 words maximum)
You will be required to submit a 250-word statement demonstrating the Behaviour Communicating and Influencing in response to the following:
Describe a situation where you were required to coordinate a complex piece of work involving the integration, sharing or exploitation of data across multiple stakeholders or organisations. How did you identify and manage dependencies, risks and competing priorities, and ensure the data capability delivered the intended operational or business outcome?
2. Sift TBC
An initial sift will be undertaken on Behaviour Question Delivering at Pace (250 words maximum)
Candidates will be required to submit a 250-word response to the following question:
"Describe a situation where you were required to coordinate a complex piece of work involving the integration, sharing or exploitation of data across multiple stakeholders or organisations. How did you identify and manage dependencies, risks and competing priorities, and ensure the data capability delivered the intended operational or business outcome?"
Candidates who are successful at the initial sift stage will progress to a full sift, where the remaining assessment element (CV and Personal Statement) will be reviewed and scored.
Candidates who do not achieve the minimum pass mark at the initial sift stage will not have their other elements assessed and will receive a score only for the element assessed at the initial sift.
3. Interview TBC
The interview will take place on MS Teams.
This role is available for 24 months (2 years from start date) as a fixed term appointment/secondment. Whilst this fixed term contract is offered on the understanding that it will only last as long as the stated contract length, there could be a possibility that it could be extended or made permanent should circumstances allow.
This role is available for 24 months as a fixed term appointment or as a secondment opportunity to:
- Serving police officers substantive in the rank of Inspector, or those officers suitably qualified for temporary promotion in the rank of Sergeant. All applicants must have the support of their Chief Officer which must be of NPCC rank, i.e., CC, ACC or DCC and this must accompany an application.
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Serving police staff at the equivalent rank of superintendent who have their chief officer's approval. Chief Officers approval must be of NPCC rank, i.e., CC, ACC or DCC. Approval for a secondment must accompany an application.
Fixed Term Contracts
Whilst this fixed term contract is offered on the understanding that it will only last as long as the stated contract length, there could be a possibility that it could be extended or made permanent should circumstances allow.
Internal College applicants who are at risk of redundancy or in need of redeployment and pass the recruitment process, will be given priority over other applicants.
How to apply and contact information:
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, and as Public Servants we follow the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
We embrace diversity and promote equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
For further information visit our Work for us page.
What it's like working at the College of Policing
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail please contact Steven Brownlee - [email protected] - Head of Enablement.
We believe that a diverse workforce brings many benefits to the organisation including diversity of thought and improvements to the way we work internally and with partners and communities. We strive to be fully inclusive but we know there is more to do. We genuinely encourage people from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply for this role.
We want to continually improve our recruitment processes and to remove any barriers to equal opportunities that could disadvantage those from particular backgrounds. In order for us to have the information to do this, we ask you to please complete the diversity section of the online application process. We use a blind shortlisting process and we hope that by using this method we will be able to promote greater diversity in our workforce and remove any subconscious decisions based on biases.
Our vetting
If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.
Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn. DV clearance may be required for the role.
In order to work for the College of Policing you must have the Right to Work in the UK with indefinite leave to remain. Can you confirm if you have this? In addition, you will also be required to provide an address history in the UK for the preceding 5 years.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
