As an Analyst Manager, you will be leading your team to deliver on a wide range of tactical intelligence analysis products, projects, and operational taskings. This will include leading on their development and access of overt and covert capabilities, ensuring the team are well resourced, developed, and confident to inform decision making across the intelligence and operational landscape; as well as partnering with government, law enforcement, UK Intelligence Community and private third sector to support tactical objectives.
You will be expected to positively work alongside analyst managers and your team to ensure the tactical analysis profession is developed and delivering on the teams priorities, vision, and missions; including leading them to regularly work with large, multiple data sources to interpret and inform on threat, identify new lines of enquiry and disruption opportunities, present data visually in a way that is easy to comprehend. The post holder will be expected to be confident in their ability to provide leadership and direction to ensure their team are producing accurate, clear and quality analytical products, as well as ensuring they are proactively finding and delivering added value to inform the prioritisation of serious organised crime nominals and groups, inform threat areas understanding and decision-making processes at the highest levels of law enforcement.
This role will see the post holder working closely and building partnerships with the respective Intelligence, Investigation and Threat area officers; they will regularly lead their team through appropriate taskings, capacity, and novel approaches to tackle serious and organised crime through the use of tactical intelligence analysis.
The post holder will be expected to line manage senior intelligence analysts, support on tactical analysis team workstreams to develop the teams and overall profession; as we all ensuring the intelligence analysts within their teams are supported. The post holder will be supported through an analytical line management structure including Senior Intelligence Operation Analyst Managers, and Head of Tactical Intelligence. They will be expected to provide analytical feedback and guidance to enhance teams skills, with access to wider team support through forums and continuous professional development events.
National Tactical Analysis Unit
Intelligence Analysis forms a key component of the Intelligence Directorate. National Tactical Analysis Unit (NTAU) is part of both National Intelligence Hub – covering multi threat criminally – and also part of OIC Intelligence & Analysis. This has enabled closer working with Intelligence and Investigations, whilst still retaining close links to the data and technical professionals.
As an Analyst Manager, within NTAU NIH or NTAU OIC, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing Senior Intelligence Analysts in providing support to any area of business as required, internal and external. You will be expected to work across the tiers.
The roles will encompass all tactical aspects of intelligence analysis, proactive threat focused analysis working alongside the National Targeting Centre (NTC) as well as the operational analysis to support Regional Intelligence Teams (RITs) and our Investigations colleagues. You will be expected to increase the agencies impact against SOC through exploiting all source data and intelligence leading to improved targeting activity and understanding across priority threats. Additionally, you will be responsible for the provision of high-quality analysis to support intelligence development and tasked investigations supporting the IOLs and SIOs by informing, guiding and directing resources to reduce serious organised crime impacting on the UK.
Successful candidates will be required to utilise their experience of tactical analysis to produce, develop and oversee the production of exceptional analytical products, relying on strong criminal analysis and a range of analytical techniques - often to tight deadlines.
Excellent leadership, communication and influencing skills are essential. Successful candidates will need to engage with stakeholders and customers at all levels, developing strong working relationships to understand customer needs, analytical requirements, tools and techniques; and to communicate their findings appropriately.
As a Analyst Manager within NTAU, you will be responsible not only for delivering high quality analytical products, but also shaping analytical standards, embedding best practice, and driving professionalisation across threat areas – across classifications and tiers, operating at an All Source level. These products will aid in recommendations to identify, target, and disrupt SOC networks; up to and including supporting judicial outcomes with evidential material of analytical products.
NTAU NIH Multi Threat
NTAU NIH Multi Threat teams are an embedded function with the National Intelligence Hub, responsible for delivering high-impact tactical analysis across multi serious and organised crime threats, operating at the centre of the Intelligence Directorate, the team provides flexible and threat agnostic analytical capability that can be dynamically aligned to operation demand. The team is responsible developing and leading on the tactical analysis across operational commands in support of multi threat delivery; working closely with RITs, NTCs, investigations and external partners.
NTAU NIH Multi Threat also hold responsibility for the agencies ANPR function led by an ANPR Manager as well as a Analyst Manager post with Professionalisation as lead area.
NTAU OIC
NTAU OIC teams are responsible for the analytical strategies, operational support and thematic understanding to support and inform the NCA’s Lines of Efforts (LoEs) in this priority threat area. As the Analyst Manager in this threat area, you will lead and manage a team of intelligence analysts, engage with the LoE SRO to align workload to priorities and direct impactive analytical products to contribute to the OIC mission.
Please Note: Security Vetting requirements - To be considered, you may need to hold DV clearance before commencing the role, and for some roles you can achieve DV clearance within the first 12 months in post. Some applicants may also be required to achieve DV STRAP, depending upon the team they are allocated to. Applicants must be willing to undergo DV clearance and STRAP induction and be full UK Nationals. Dual Nationals, of whom one component is British, may be considered on a case by case basis. Any candidate who does not achieve DV or DV STRAP in post will be found a suitable alternative role at the same grade. For some roles DV may be required on Entry.
