Job Specifications
Post Title: ECPHQ Capability Development and Workforce Strategy Lead
Contract type: 1 year FTC, likely to extend to 3 years
Rank/grade: G
Salary: Starting Salary: £61,180 + £6,920 London Weighting + £200 London Weighting supplement
Directorate/department: ECPHQ
Vetting level required: MV/SC (find out more here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels)
Location: Guildhall Yard East
This role is open to all Police Staff / external candidates who meet the essential criteria of the person spec, regardless of current grade.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest borough in London, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Staff Member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from those who are disabled, have long-term health conditions, and/or are neurodivergent, those with Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds, female candidates, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
About The Team
The Economic and Cyber Crime Headquarters (ECPHQ) comprises all central Strategy and Engagement functions across Fraud, Economic and Cyber Crime for the City of London Police, workstreams under the National Policing People Strategy for Fraud, Economic and Cyber Crime, and the Economic and Cyber Crime Academy (ECCA)
You can find out more about working within National Lead Force here: https://vimeo.com/1124775531/c2ea98aee0?share=copy
About The Role
The role involves:
Leadership of economic and cyber policing’s national people strategy programme to deliver a sustainable workforce model in recruiting and retaining its staff for the future.
Oversight of ongoing workstreams under the workforce strategy. Namely, Direct Entry Detectives for Economic Crime, Financial Intelligence Officer Student Placements, and Volunteers.
Joint working with partners and leadership to deliver the new Association of Economic Crime Professionals (AECP). A holistic career offer and community across the public sector, law enforcement, and in future the private sector, for those working in Economic Crime. Part of this offer will include looking to upskill members on new and emerging topics, such as AI
Strategic lead for the Economic and Cyber Crime Academy (ECCA): Economic and Cyber Crime Academy
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
Understanding and contributing to the strategic objectives and direction of economic and cyber policing to ensure that the programme is able to shape and deliver the right workforce for the future and feed this into wider operational priority planning
Working with strategic internal and external partners across Policing, wider law enforcement, government, and the private sector.
Chairing project governance boards, holding workstream leads and dependencies to account, whilst similarly being held to account by economic and cyber policing leadership and government oversight.
Effective management of budget, contracts and commercial arrangements connected to the delivery of the programme.
Engaging and influencing senior leaders including at Chief Officer level and senior partners within and across economic and cyber policing, growing stakeholder relationships and building a strong bond between business needs and programme delivery.
Requirements
For this role, we need you to have experience of:
Knowledge and understanding of the policing landscape nationally and in particular economic, fraud and cyber crime threats affecting the UK.
The ability to build strong, trust-based professional partnerships with a range of stakeholders, constructively challenge and provide appropriate feedback
Demonstrable ability to utilise highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills, to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels, strategically influencing and negotiating with others positively, whilst maintaining good working relationships.
Strong problem solving skills and the ability to find innov
About the Company
Policing the Square Mile brings with it particular challenges, quite unlike any other policing area within the UK. The City of London is the world's leading international financial and business centre. It is an area where disruption to 'business as usual' would have significant impact on the diverse range of business interests located here. We are committed to fighting crime at all levels. Although we fulfil a national role tackling fraud and other serious criminality, our local role is no less important to us.
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