CTPHQ Chief of Staff - Police Staff - SLT - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ in London

The starting salary is £62,310, which includes allowances totalling £3,009. The salary is broken down as £59,301 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £72,254. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

The Chief of Staff is a pivotal role within the Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters (CTPHQ), working to the Director General of CTPHQ, but also being a key support to the Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations (ACSO), the four Directors within the Headquarters, and the five OCU Commanders across the Specialist Operations business group. This core role is to help ensure the efficient and effective running of the HQ as a whole, monitoring and identifying issues, problem solving and resolving challenges, and delivering key, often bespoke, pieces of work across a wide range of potential areas, as required.

The CTP Headquarters is a function created to support senior leaders, and has a dual role in being the Headquarters for both the national counter terrorism policing environment, but also for the MPS Specialist Operations environment. As a result, this role offers a truly unique and challenging developmental opportunity in a high profile and critical area of the police service’s work to enhance and develop its national counter terrorism capacity and capability and is particularly suited to high calibre individuals with excellent analytical and communication skills and a good understanding of both the CT and Specialist Operations environments.

Please note, the line management this role may be subject to change as part of the CTPHQ review.

• Ensuring the cohesiveness of the work across the overall headquarters; overseeing and guiding the cross-pillar activity, identifying areas that may need review or assistance to operate efficiently, and co-ordinating activity across the senior leadership teams together with key problem solving.
• Providing the pivotal link between the pillar and portfolio leads in the CTPHQ operating environment.
• Influencing decision-making across CTPHQ, delivering advice, guidance and products to enable the CT Policing Executive to transact its business in an effective and efficient manner.
• Managing and driving forward the business of the Specialist Operations Chief Officer Group (COG) meetings; quality assuring meeting papers, agendas, actions, decisions and preparing high quality briefings for members where required.
• Representing the Director General at both external and internal meetings in discharging his responsibilities, including strategic engagement with key stakeholders (including at NPCC level and the senior civil service).
• Ensuring an excellent ongoing relationship with HMICFRS in relation to CT based national inspections, linking in and coordinating activity across the HQ and with all national Chief Constables, ACC’s and DCC’s where required.
• Chairing/attending key HQ staff meetings, including the CTPHQ Staff Engagement Forum, the SO IDE sub board, and the attendance management meeting, amongst others.
• Ensuring overall CTPHQ interests are maintained at various board meetings as required, including the SO Risk Board, SO Workforce Planning board, SO Health, Safety & Wellbeing board, CTPHQ Rewards and Recognition board, and the Organisational Development Unit (ODU) Board.
• Developing and delivering a wide range of exciting CTPHQ and SO staff events, including the CTPHQ Staff Engagement days, National Inclusion week celebrations, Supervisor development events, Commendations ceremonies and ongoing Lunch & Learn development events.
• Engagement with senior stakeholders across the national CT environment as required, including oversight of the CT Strategic Board arrangements involving Chief Constables, Police and Crime Commissioner and Deputy Mayors across the CT network.
• Delivery and maintenance of other specific activities and projects as directed, including the maintenance of the national CT Section 22a Collaboration Agreement.

Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) level before taking up the post. All appointments are subject to the post holder satisfying the required level of security clearance at the time of appointment and for the duration of the attachment agreement. Failure to achieve such clearance or removal of such clearance will result in the termination of employment. This does not affect your statutory right.

This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Developed Vetting (DV) level before taking up the post. This post requires British nationality (some dual nationals may be ineligible) and an Enhanced Security Check (eSC)/Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. As the post holder will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process. Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment. Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.

Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) continues to prioritize an inclusive and supportive working environment and culture, where all of our people feel a strong sense of belonging and are empowered to reach their full potential. CTP keeps the nation and everyone in it safe from all manner of threats and as those threats evolve, so do we - that’s why Inclusion, Diversity and Equality (IDE) is the key to supporting our greatest asset, our people.

Our people protect our national security across the UK. In order to continue to deliver against our organizational priorities, we collectively seek to ensure that all colleagues feel respected, supported and valued to fully participate in the delivery of our mission – “working to keep people safe from Terrorism”.

IDE is at the heart of our approach to make the composition of Counter Terrorism Policing more representative of the communities we serve. As Counter Terrorism is rooted in Local Policing, to tackle today’s complex policing challenges, applications from across all backgrounds, cultures and experiences are therefore essential and encouraged. The CTP Network is committed to ensuring that candidates identifying as disabled are able to realize their fullest career aspirations and, as such, will endeavour to accommodate any reasonable adjustments that you may require during the recruitment process. CTP also welcomes applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements, such as part-time working, job-share and where the role permits, hybrid working arrangements. All flexible working arrangements should be discussed and agreed with the hiring manager.

• Ability to think, plan and act strategically in a fast-moving and uncertain environment, with a creative approach to problem solving and delivery in demanding circumstances and ability to formulate and implement long term corporate strategic solutions.
• Ability to take the initiative, make judgements, make decisions, negotiate and influence strategic decision making.
• Proven ability as a self-motivator who can build strong working relationships with senior colleagues and peers across the CT Policing Executive, MPS and partners.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, including experience in writing strategic reports, proposals and in delivering briefings to senior management and partners.
• A good/recent understanding and knowledge of the CT Policing structure and wider operating environment, including its London (MPS) and National (UK Force wide) environment.
• A good/recent understanding of CT Policing relationships to Government, security and intelligence agencies including their governance arrangements.
• A good/recent understanding and knowledge of the Specialist Operations business group structure and wider MPS governance arrangements.

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The following competencies will be tested against during sift:

• We analyse critically at level 3
• We take ownership at level 3
• We collaborate at level 3

The following values will be tested against during sift:

• Integrity

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.