Intelligence Assistant (Home-Based/Sittingbourne)

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Location of Role: Sittingbourne

Advert Closing Date: 11/07/2025

Starting Salary: £24,768.00(pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time:Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to undertake the role of Intelligence Assistant within the Kent Central Analytical Team.

This position is a full-time permanent position. Flexible working applications will be considered (minimum 3 days per week), and full-time hours are flexible between core hours of 07:00 and 18:00 Monday to Friday.

This position within the Central Analytical Team meets the increasing demand placed on the force through external processes and valuable intelligence profiles received from National Crime Agency, Op Opal, the Home Office and the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU).

The main purpose of this position is to:

• support the management of Organised Crime Group (OCG), Serious Organised Crime (SOC) and Vulnerability investigation assessments through MoRiLE (management of risk in law enforcement) and recording the disruption activity carried out by officers, Kent and partners,
• receive and review intelligence and profiles that come into the team from external organisations and provide summary documents to the relevant team leaders and Senior Leadership Team,
• undertake scanning of media and current affairs issues to ensure that the team have a collective understanding of emerging threats and trends in crime that could affect the victims of Kent

You will work closely with the Analysts, Team Leaders and Senior Analysts in ensuring that the force is equipped with the knowledge and understanding of wider criminal activity and emerging ways that criminals commit crime. Your ability to communicate and network with the analyst teams is important so that you can understand what is relevant and important for them to be aware of.

To be considered for the role, you will need to demonstrate:

• Good level of Maths and English (preferably C/4 or above in GCSE)
• Your ability to write concise reports
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Proficient use of IT including Microsoft products
• Excellent communication skills and ability to network with colleagues.

It would also be desirable if you have an understanding of the use of intelligence and keep yourself up to date with media issues and current affairs. Experience in the use of Athena would also be beneficial although training can be provided.

There is an opportunity for you to undertake the Intelligence Professionalisation Programme which is a national programme led by the College of Policing. All training will be provided.

You will be required be able to travel to the Team Zone and Open Zones on a regular basis to work alongside analysts, you’ll also be required to travel to other police stations across Kent for training and meeting attendance as required, therefore a full driving licence would be an advantage.

This is a challenging and rewarding role that requires high levels of accuracy and attention to detail. If this sounds like an exciting challenge for your next role, then please submit an application.

The role will offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including the potential to work from home for those who would like to. In the event that home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend a designated Team Zone location as agreed with the line manager. The designated Team Zone for this role is located at Sittingbourne Police Station.

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of£28,239.00.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.

Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain.

If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.