Deputy Head of Intelligence Analysis
South Yorkshire PoliceSheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Yorkshire and the Humber
Overview
This is a emergency services role with South Yorkshire Police based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Role: Deputy Head of Intelligence Analysis
District/Department: Crime Services
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £44,700- £49,716
Hours: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join South Yorkshire Police as the Deputy Head of Intelligence Analysis, leading a high-performing function at the heart of intelligence-led policing.
Reporting to the Head of Intelligence Analysis, you will provide strategic leadership across our Strategic, Tactical, and Partnership Analysis portfolios.
You will directly manage three Senior Intelligence Analysts and provide second-line leadership to around 28 intelligence analysis practitioners, driving performance, professional standards, and continuous improvement.
This is a pivotal leadership role, responsible for shaping analytical capability, influencing force-wide decision making, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality intelligence products that support the National Intelligence Model and organisational priorities.
We are looking for an experienced, inspiring leader with a strong background in intelligence analysis, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a passion for developing people and driving innovation in a fast-paced policing environment.
- Provide leadership, direction, and coordination to Intelligence Analysis teams in the areas of strategic, tactical, operational, SOC and partnership support and development. Influencing decision making at a strategic, tactical, and operational level, to mitigate threat, harm, and risk.
- Manage the Senior Analysts, providing monitoring, coaching, guidance, and support to maximise staff development, efficiency, and morale, to deliver an effective intelligence service in line with organisational requirements.
- Prioritise and allocate resources appropriately for the analytical function and make risk-based decisions to deliver effective outcomes whilst optimising resource and skills deployment.
- Negotiate, develop, and maintain processes, analytical products, and other core intelligence functions to influence strategic organisational decision making.
- Ensure analytical products are informed and developed as a result of consultation and feedback with key stakeholders, customers, the wider organisation, and external customers.
- Prepare and deliver reports and presentations using information from a variety of sources in an appropriate format, and to a level suitable for a variety of audiences, both internal and external to the organisation.
- Drive awareness of innovation within intelligence and data analysis to ensure implementation of latest techniques and tactics, best practice, and information relevant to the role.
- Advise upon systems, software, and products within intelligence to ensure implementation of the latest techniques, best practice, and information relevant to the role.
- Be a professional advocate for analysis by providing advice, direction, and expertise across the force on all analytical matters to contribute to forces plans and the achievement of policing objectives.
- Deputise for managers within the intelligence department.
- Coordinate the continued professional development of the analytical function, including implementation of the Intelligence Professionalisation Programme (IPP) or equivalent whilst maintaining own accreditation.
- Commit to develop professional knowledge and skills in the field of intelligence analysis to ensure implementation of the latest techniques, best practice, and information relevant to the role.
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