The Independent Football Regulator
The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve.
The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection.
The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football.
Senior Intelligence Analyst
The role of Intelligence is to focus resources in the most effective way. As an intelligence analyst in the IFR you will support IFR supervision cases to develop and implement intelligence collection plans to enable them to apply the IFR's functions.
Responsibilities Include:
- Progressing intelligence development and identifying opportunities to exploit intelligence opportunities
- Confidently engaging with other government organisations, including law enforcement and other regulators
- Accessing and developing intelligence records from all available intelligence sources
- Advising IFR supervisors on appropriate intelligence collection plans
- Briefing IFR senior leadership team on identified opportunities and risks
This is a sensitive and high-profile role due to the nature of the work. The position is suited towards an individual who has intelligence experience, including material above OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE classification, and the ability to work flexibly in a dynamic and changing environment.
Essential Requirements
- You should hold either:
- an appropriate intelligence certification, such as the Intelligence Professionalism Programme (IPP) or similar or
- equivalent experience gained from performing intelligence analyst functions in either a law enforcement or regulatory experience
- Experience of using systems and processes for intelligence collection, development and dissemination
- Be able to identify and manage risk across intelligence development work, implementing enhanced security practices
- Collaborative and able to work effectively with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders
- Able to work well on your own initiative (a self-starter)
- You must meet the required security clearance level (see later)
Desirable Skills
- IPP Supervisor qualification or similar level qualification
Experience in the use of the National Intelligence Model
Experienced in the use and application of open-source intelligence
We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by David Liebscher, and will take place on:
- Wednesday 21st January at 6pm
The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.
Please register your interest by filling out this form and you will be sent an invitation. The invites will be sent the night before the session. The sessions are not recorded.
Please note that the session will not focus on the IFR recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, on-boarding etc) to careers@footballregulator.org.uk
If successful you will join a Non Departmental Public Body and will be employed as a Public Servant.
If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension.
The terms and conditions of employment include:
- Pension 12% An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%.
- Flexible Benefit 8% Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension, or take as cash (post tax)
- Reward we will have a performance based reward programme.
- 31.5 days annual leave
- Flexible and hybrid working, 40% in office attendance
- Occupational sick pay
- 9 months paid Maternity Leave + generous paternity and adoption leave.
- A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees
- Cycle-to-work scheme and much more!
The Interview
The interview process will assess experience through competency questions and a presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, length of time, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.
Prior to the interview you will be sent the competency questions in advance. The questions will be based on the essential criteria listed on slide 7
Your interview will take place remotely via Teams.
Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
The IFR has a location neutral pay scale. For more information on this, please see the ‘Candidate Information Pack’ attached.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. To request an adjustment, please email careers@footballregulator.org.uk
Accessibility
If you are experiencing accessibility difficulties with any of the attachments, please contact us. Contact details can be found in the 'contact point for applicants' section of the job advert.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Developed Vetting (opens in a new window).
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Diversity and Inclusion
The IFR is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
Contact point for applicants
Email: careers@footballregulator.org.uk
