About the job

Summary

The National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) is advertising for a number of Senior Management roles to lead the fight against cyber-crime.

All these high profile roles are at the heart of the NCCU’s senior leadership team which provides unequalled opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the Agency.

We continue to deliver the National Cyber Strategy by leading the law enforcement response to the cyber threat, and represent the NCCU in strategic engagement with UK and international partners.

Job description

Incident Management, Operational Support and Exercising

The Senior Manager leads a number of teams responsible for the NCCU incident response function, working with partners to manage live incidents and coordinate a national response, as well as providing specialist cyber tactical support and intelligence capabilities to the wider NCA, national policing, domestic and international law enforcement partners. They will strategically manage incidents as they occur and ensure that teams are proactive in their response as well as leading cyber exercising and operational debriefing.

Enabling Functions

Based within Threat Leadership, the Senior Manager will manage people, governance and project delivery with responsibility for the Threat Management Team, NCCU People Team and NCCU Programme Office. With accountability for transformational business case development and delivery of cyber lifecycle programmes, they will act as a key stakeholder for NCCU.

Intelligence

This role leads the NCCU’s Operational Intelligence teams to deliver proactive intelligence support to cyber-crime investigations. Overseeing officers working in fused intelligence teams which bring sensitive and non-sensitive capabilities to bear against the threat, the Senior Manager understands the threat and links in closely with UK and International partners, whilst engaging with private industry.

Technology

With accountability for development of initiatives and delivery of end-to-end cyber engineering, the Senior Manager will have extensive understanding of delivering advanced cyber capabilities in a law enforcement environment. They will work closely with operational and intelligence colleagues across policing to understand how technological developments can actively contribute to work against the threat. They will manage technical and data experts designing bespoke, directed capabilities against the threat.

Strategy and Performance

As a NCCU Senior Manager, you are responsible for leading the Strategy and Performance team, and the Deputy Director’s private office, working in partnership with Government, partner cyber law enforcement and intelligence bodies to support the NCA’s response to the threat as well as reinforcing our position in the cyber security landscape. NCCU Strategy & Performance is heavily involved in understanding operational and intelligence activity, providing strategic direction, delivering briefs and support to Senior Leaders as they represent the NCA on cyber issues at the strategic level, and overseeing performance across the cyber law enforcement network.

Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of UK Law Enforcement’s strategy for tackling Cybercrime, working closely with NPCC and NCSC partners, through the Strategic Governance Group, associated delivery groups, and the Strategic Action Plan.

• Communicate the strategy, and the NCCU role in its tactical delivery via effective liaison with wider NCA, NPCC, NCSC and other stakeholders.

• Be accountable for delivery of performance of your remit against the Cybercrime threat and capturing their wider contribution to other SOC and National Security missions.

• Lead NCCU briefings on the Cybercrime threat and response to senior NCA, NCSC, Whitehall and Ministerial audiences, providing written briefings where necessary.

• Lead Heads of Profession work for officers under your remit.

• Own the NCCU corporate Risk portfolio, responsible for the reporting of corporate risks to NCA central teams.

***Intelligence, Technology, Strategy and Performance and Incident Management, Operational Support & Exercising***: DV is required on entry. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 7 out of the past 10 years***

***Enabling functions: SC Enhanced upon entry. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years***

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Developing Self and Others
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Understanding of cyber security crime methodology and the current threat landscape.
• Effective communication and presentation skills, including the delivery of written and oral briefings.
• Senior Manager – Incident Management, Operational Support & Exercising Proven experience of the management of cyber incidents, working in collaboration with cyber law enforcement partners, and good knowledge of cyber investigations.
• Senior Manager – Enabling Functions Proven experience of leading a team through a complex, high profile or large scale project to deliver good outcomes, including the management of senior stakeholder relationships.
• Senior Manager - Intelligence Proven experience of the management of intelligence operations, or of managing cyber incidents, working in collaboration with law enforcement partners in a Serious Organised Crime and/or National Security context.
• Senior Manager – Technology Significant experience of delivering technical capability (e.g. data science and/or cloud and/or targeted equipment interference and/or DevSecOps) from inception to delivery.
• Senior Manager – Strategy and Performance Proven experience of leading a team working to tight deadlines to deliver high level briefings and stakeholder engagement and/or strategic oversight.