This is an exciting opportunity to join the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as Head of Proactive Intelligence. The role focuses on growing and enhancing the SFO’s intelligence capabilities, deploying a full range of intelligence techniques and processes to identify and develop the most serious and complex economic crime cases.
Responsibilities
- Day‑to‑day leadership and oversight of the Intelligence Division’s covert capabilities and proactive team.
- Oversee the development and use of proactive intelligence and operational techniques.
- Ensure divisional performance supports the SFO’s Strategy and Business Plan.
- Effectively manage intelligence referrals and operations, intervening when necessary to ensure effective case progression and high‑quality outcomes.
- Provide visible leadership, actively promoting the values and priorities of the SFO.
- Lead proactive and covert operations, encouraging a culture of initiative, flexibility and accountability.
- Build and develop teams to improve performance.
Qualifications
- Significant and demonstrable operational experience leading senior intelligence or investigative teams in a multi‑disciplinary environment dealing with serious or complex crime.
- Experience building and developing teams to improve performance.
- Recent experience leading proactive and covert operations, with a good understanding of RIPA 2000 and IPA 2016 and the use of covert human intelligence sources.
- Skilled at managing relationships with intelligence partners, utilising sensitive intelligence across organisational and national boundaries.
Benefits
- Salary of £74,670.
- Contributory pension: £21,631 toward the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme; option to join the Civil Service pension scheme.
- 25 days annual leave (30 days after five years, plus one King’s Birthday day); option to buy/sell up to five days.
- Discretionary performance‑related bonus scheme.
- Interest‑free season travel ticket, bicycle loan, cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Rental Deposit Salary Advance Scheme.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Flexible working arrangements and family‑friendly policies.
- Eye‑care vouchers and discounted spectacles.
- Access to the Civil Service Sports and Social Club.
- Maternity and paternity leave above statutory entitlements.
- My CPS Rewards Gateway: discounts, grocery savings, salary‑sacrifice schemes, reloadable gift cards, instant vouchers.
Eligibility & Residency
- 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 with settled or pre‑settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for the 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.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before being appointed. Developed Vetting clearance is required.
