CBRN Strategy & Policy Inspector – Police Officer – Counter Terrorism Policing WM

Counter Terrorism Policing; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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CBRN Strategy & Policy Inspector – Police Officer – Counter Terrorism Policing WM

This role is based in the Strategy, Policy & International Team at the National CBRN Centre near Coventry which supports, and delivers across four thematic teams: Training; Capabilities; Operations; and Performance & Development, to support, strengthen and assure the police response to CBRN Terrorism.

This is a critical function so we are looking for a suitably experienced and qualified Inspector to manage a small team of subject matter experts. Open to substantive Inspectors, this role is operational, however, may be suitable for a restricted officer dependant on adjustments required. The role is offered as a 2 year secondment or transferee opportunity to a national unit.

The role

As part of the NCBRNC leadership team the primary function of this role is to support the Protect & Prepare SRO for CBRN in developing and delivering guidance and policy, and maintaining and enhancing the CBRN specific International portfolio. The role includes supporting and influencing government departments and agencies, emergency services, the national CT network and industry. The role will require hybrid working within Homeland Security Group, Home Office with responsibility for co-ordinating tri-service policy development and representation including attendance at CBR Incident Cell (CBRIC) when needed. Secondary functions are strategic event organisation, income generation, research and development projects, performance management, quality assurance and promotion of equality, diversity and human rights in the workplace. The role includes line management of the NCBRNC Policy & Guidance Manager (police staff G7).

All NCBRNC Inspectors are required to undertake the Duty Manager function, this includes 24/7 on call responsibilities to support a response to international, national and local CBRN incidents. Duty Managers will also be required to command NCBRNC operational resources (e.g. Inland RN and Detection Identification Monitoring teams) which are available for immediate deployment to both live and protective security operations.

Responsibilities

• Ownership for delivering multiple national and international projects, with complex and competing priorities.
• Have strong technical skills, experience of business case writing, and confident in leading project managers and analysts to ensure requisite data and support is secured to deliver portfolio objectives.
• Partnership working in particular with other national and international organisations such as UN, IAEA, OPCW and CTPN, to determine, set and deliver against bespoke objectives demonstrating strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills at all levels of command and management structures.
• Strong people manager and leader, prioritising the wellbeing of teams alongside delivery commitments.
• Organise, host and present at conference, symposium, lecture and panel events to internal, partner and public audiences.
• Coordinate delivery of the CTP CBRN International Strategy, securing travel authorities and reporting progress accordingly.
• Deputise for the NCBRNC Senior Leadership Team – (Head and Deputy Head) including representation at national strategic CT, partnership, military and cross government meetings.
• Represent CTPHQ at strategic meetings with Government and Partners.
• Work with the Homeland Security Group developing and maintaining a CBRN framework to improve policies, strategies and programmes of national CBRN CTP work.
• Deliver prioritised annual income generation plans, budget builds and exploitation plans in line with the International portfolio.
• Track and develop clear reporting of progress against business plans on a quarterly basis, aligned to strategic priorities and performance.
• Lead and support a number of networks to ensure the CBRN community is informed, and co-ordinate educational and academic research.
• Build relationships and work flexibly with a range of stakeholders across the CT, CBRN, Military and Emergency Service networks to embed awareness and ensure consistent ways of working and high-quality outputs.
• Be a key member of the CTP CBRN management on-call rota. Updating and responding to Home Office and wider government requests on operational information as part NCBRNC on-call rota, and in response to any incident as part of the crisis management response.
• Attend and represent at local and national command meetings as a CBRN SME to support the incident response to a CBRN event.
• Command deployment of NCBRNC RN and Specialist assets when deployed to incidents or protective security operations.
• Represent NCBRNC and CTP on various relevant Police, Government and Industry working groups/committees.
• Lead performance improvement and business development work-streams to drive change, improvement and innovation – specifically in psychosocial and human factor areas.
• Produce high quality written reports, presentations and oral briefings to support Head of Centre, CTP and NPCC CBRN Thematic Lead.
• Develop and maintain specific programmes or project management products, putting in place and active management of appropriate project governance, project plans, risk and issue registers, tracking and monitoring updates, managing escalations and effective change control.

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