Joint Intelligence Organisation - Principal Intelligence Analyst (Emerging Risks and Climate Security)

About the JIO

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), the National Security Council, the Prime Minister and other key decision-makers by providing authoritative, robust all-source intelligence assessment on a vast range of national security and foreign policy priorities.

Our work covers, and goes beyond, ‘traditional’ national security topics such as geopolitical issues and threats to British interests. We apply a national security lens to issues such as emerging technology, economic and energy security, climate change and horizon scanning (for example, identifying and monitoring countries at risk of instability).

You can read more about working for the JIO in the information pack attached at the bottom of this advert. We are particularly interested in attracting applications from under-represented groups.

The Role

You will have responsibility for delivering the JIO’s all-source strategic assessments of a wide range of emerging risks and transnational issues. You will need to work flexibly to lead assessments of new topics, and work across HMG and externally to access expertise not available in-house. You will also lead the development of JIO’s climate security capability and deliver assessments on the impact of climate change on conflict, political stability, migration, food security and geopolitics. The role sits within the JIO’s Economics, Energy and Emerging Risks team, whose work covers a wide range of high-profile international issues.

This role involves working closely with senior customers (policy officials in the Cabinet Office, FCDO, DESNZ, MOD and other Whitehall departments) and developing a large network of collaborative working relationships across HMG and with international partners.

You will be helping to improve HMG’s preparedness for future global crises and shocks by providing early warning about developing global risks and their implications for UK national security. Your work will be read by the Prime Minister, Ministers, No.10, and senior officials, and have a real impact on policy and decision making. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to work flexibly during a crisis to support teams in wider JIO as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the JIO’s assessment of climate security risks, working in partnership with the HMG’s climate science and policy community and international partners.
• Analyse information from a range of sources to produce timely, robust and policy-relevant risk indices and related all-source assessments, in support of UK foreign and security policy;
• Establish collaborative relationships with Cabinet Office and Whitehall colleagues.
• Ensure the team products are focused on policy customers priorities and are used to inform policy discussions.
• Support you colleagues to deliver the wider team’s priorities.
• Establish a network of contacts from across think-tanks, academia and the private sector to draw in expertise and invite challenges to HMG thinking.

The successful candidate will very strong communication skills and experience producing evidence-based analysis or assessment for a senior audience. You should already possess solid research and analysis skills (including being comfortable working with big datasets), and be experienced at gathering and analysing information from diverse sources. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player, developing close working relationships with colleagues across Whitehall and international partners.

We invest in upskilling our team members to enable them to thrive once they start working with us. As such, if you don’t quite match these desirable skills, don’t let it put you off applying as we will equip the successful candidate with them once you are in post.

The essential criteria for this role are:

• Possess solid research and analysis skills (including being comfortable working with data and scientific evidence);
• Experience of developing and managing close working relationships with colleagues across organisational boundaries;
• Able to quickly develop your understanding of new topics and build new relationships with experts and policy customers unfamiliar with intelligence and national security;
• Able to draw conclusions from a large volume of (sometimes conflicting) evidence;
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player;
• Skills and experience in one or more of following: international climate policy, climate science, political instability, economics, data analysis, or futures analysis.

The desirable criteria for this role are:

• Experience of international development, foreign policy or national security;
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and able to apply a range of data visualisation methods to communicate insights.

Additional information:

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

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

• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

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

• Gathering, Organising & Evaluating Intelligence & Information (Highly Proficient)
• Analysis, Tradecraft and Assessment (Highly Proficient)
• Informing Decision Making (Highly Proficient)
• Written and Visual Communication of Intelligence Assessment (Highly Proficient)

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Crisis working: As the JIO and PHIA are at the heart of national security function for the UK, there are occasionally times where we need to respond to incidents of crisis or critical importance. Staff in any role may be asked to work extended or anti-social hours with little or no notice on such occasions.

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