Information and Data Management Officer Ref. 3478

MI5; London; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Job description

Flexible Working: Full time, part time, and compressed hours are possible. Due to the sensitive nature of the work, the majority of the role is office based with limited opportunities for remote working (up to potentially one day per month working from home for learning and development).

About Us

We're MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service, or SIS. Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.

The Role

Our organisation is driven by knowledge and insights, and as an Information and Data Management Officer, you’ll maximise the impact of our intelligence and actively contribute to our mission. Working with a range of unique, interesting, and unusual information, you will use your specialist skills to drive business outcomes and inform key decision-making.

Working in a team environment, you’ll enjoy collaborating with others, and engage on a daily basis with partners and customers to meet business requirements. We will actively encourage and support your development to help you build your knowledge and experience. You’ll help implement best practice and share your existing knowledge to maximise the value of our information.

You’ll represent the Data and Information Department and its aims. You’ll likely complete your first role in a central team focusing on information, records or data management, to give you an understanding of our objectives and legal obligations. We value motivated people who will seize the opportunity to make their own career in Information and Data Management, depending on your areas of interest.

The role includes responsibility for wider customer teams within the organisation. So, using your expertise and influence, you will provide practical advice, empowering teams to make effective decisions. There may also be opportunities to provide customer training and drive excellence in information management behaviours across the organisation.

By joining us, you’ll have a key role in enabling digital and technological change, which could include contributing to the development of working practices and policies, and ensuring developments in information management tools are implemented.

About You

You’ll have a qualification in information management, records management or data management. Or you’ll hold a professional accreditation or chartership with the Information Records Management Society (IRMS), Chartered Institute of Library and Information professionals (CILIP) or the Archives and Records Association (ARA).

We are also keen to hear from those who have recently graduated with information, records or data management qualifications, and those with an existing broad set of data and information management skills. These could include customer engagement, communication and presentations skills, implementing best practice and knowledge sharing, planning, and organisation and prioritisation skills. You’ll bring all your expertise and skills into an interesting and unique environment that creates impact on a national scale.

In short, you’ll have a head for information and data, but not data science for which we have a separate section and recruitment opportunities. You might have worked with an electronic document and records management system and developed information policies. Experience of delivering policy or technological change or working with a change team would be an advantage.

You’ll have sound problem-solving skills and be able to demonstrate an ability to come up with practical and workable solutions in a variety of situations. You’ll work closely with other specialists, but also take ownership of your work. You’ll be proactive about contributing your expertise to the Data and Information Management community.

Training and Development

You’ll join a thriving Information, Data Management and Compliance community, working closely with experienced specialists. You’ll have opportunities to deepen and broaden your skill set, while developing your expertise in areas that interest you. We pride ourselves in offering a supportive environment for you to undertake subject-relevant learning as well growing your knowledge on-the-job. We would actively encourage you to work towards or maintain professional accreditation.

You’ll attend an induction where you’ll be introduced to the organisation, and you’ll also receive a section-specific induction with members of the team to enable you to learn the specific requirements of your role.

Rewards and Benefits

You’ll receive a starting salary from £41,737 plus other benefits including:

- 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- Paid parental and adoption leave.

Equal Opportunities

At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our websites:
https://www.sis.gov.uk/explore-careers.html

There is a wide range of extra support available throughout the recruitment process to enable you to do your best, see our website https://www.sis.gov.uk/apply-now.html for information on the reasonable adjustments we can offer.

We’re Disability Confident

MI6 is proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our ‘Offer of Interview’ (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:

• A qualification in information management, records management or data management, or professional accreditation or chartership with IRMS or CILIP or ARA, or demonstrable proficiency in a data, information, or records management role.
• Reaching the minimum pass mark in the application form questions on motivation for the role and organisation.

What to Expect

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:

• Application sift, looking at your motivation for the role and the organisation and experience/qualifications
• Competency based interview
• If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment.

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.

Before You Apply

To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here.

This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. You can find out more about the vetting process here .

Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.

Before you apply, we advise you to consider setting up a separate email address for your contact with us, to ensure your personal and application correspondence remain separate. Try to avoid having identifying features in your email address, such as your first and/or surname and date of birth. This is good practice and will help you to manage your application with us more securely.

The role is based in central London, so you’ll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application. An interest-free loan via our benevolent fund is available to assist with relocating into privately rented accommodation to take up the offer of employment.

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member.

Right to Withdraw Statement:

Please be aware that we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.