Chief Investigator, Criminal Investigation, South

About this role

Details

£57,367 to £63,319 (National) - £59,463 to £66,290 (London). Candidates are advised to address any questions on rates of pay prior to applying for the post.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Business area

Investigation Services – Enforcement Group

Type of role

Investigation

Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

About the job

Job summary

About Us

We help the UK move forward, faster.

For nearly 150 years, we've protected the UK economy with deep expertise and rigour, building the confidence that helps businesses access lending, investment and opportunity.

We help people deal with personal insolvency. We make statutory redundancy payments when insolvent employers can't. We investigate director conduct and take action where it's needed.

And right now, we're changing how we do all of this, becoming faster, more digitally driven, and more focused on stopping problems before they escalate.

More than 2,000 of us work in offices across England, Scotland and Wales. It might be time for you to join us.

Investigation Services within the Enforcement Group aims to deliver and promote a range of investigation and enforcement activities, both civil and criminal in nature, to support fair and open markets.

We do this by effectively enforcing the statutory company and insolvency regimes, maintaining public confidence in those regimes, and reducing the harm caused to victims of fraudulent activity and to the business community.

The Role

We're looking for a Chief Investigator who wants more than a job that ticks boxes. As a Chief Investigator, you will support your team, helping The Insolvency Service to meet one of its strategic objectives by combatting misconduct effectively, broadening our reach across emerging harms and making better use of intelligence, data and technology.

This is a role for someone who wants to think bigger, challenge the way things have always been done, and take ownership of the outcomes that matter.

We offer full-time, part-time, job share, and flexible working. We invest in your development and give our people the space to grow, take ownership and make decisions.

Job description

Reporting to the Assistant Director, this post is responsible for the leadership, management and operational delivery for a team of approximately 18 investigators/investigator managers carrying out criminal investigations (mainly under the Insolvency Act 1986, Fraud Act 2006, Companies Act 2006, Theft Act 1968, Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023) and for ensuring the team meets their objectives.

You will be based at Stratford, Croydon or Ipswich and will need to attend the relevant office regularly. Regular travel to other sites and to attend liaison meetings with stakeholders and other regulators, often at other offsite locations across the country will be required. Occasional overnight stays may be required.

What you'll do (Responsibilities)

• lead the operational delivery of serious and complex criminal investigations, ensuring cases progress effectively and support appropriate enforcement outcomes
• lead and manage Investigation Managers and their teams, including trainees, to build capability and deliver high-quality work
• ensure investigations meet Government Counter Fraud standards, best practice and relevant legal requirements, including PACE, RIPA, CPIA and UK GDPR
• manage team performance, governance and risk, taking accountable decisions and creating an open environment that supports challenge, change and innovation
• work with Legal Services, Insolvency Group, intelligence, proceeds of crime, civil investigation and case targeting teams, as well as law enforcement, prosecuting authorities and regulators, to progress enforcement action promptly
• represent the Insolvency Service in discussions with solicitors and counsel, at court where required, and in dealings with stakeholders and the media
• contribute to the Senior Leadership Group, Directorate Leadership Team and Chief Investigator network to deliver the enforcement strategy, improve consistency and develop organisational capability

In their own words

“ I’m proud to have delivered new digital software redaction capability to the agency, which has provided investigators across the board with the tools to effectively redact large volumes of material in line with guidance and at much speedier rate than previously. This is in line with the Enforcement Group strategy objective of investment in technology, to provide colleagues with the right tools to perform.”

Chris, Chief Investigator

Person specification

We're looking for someone who can

• lead serious and complex criminal investigations to successful prosecution or other appropriate enforcement outcomes
• inspire and lead investigation teams, set clear priorities and remain accountable for high-quality operational delivery
• apply criminal investigation standards and use your understanding of the criminal justice system to guide effective casework
• assess evidence, risk and competing priorities, explain your reasoning and make sound decisions, including when to challenge or refer an issue
• build constructive relationships with internal teams, legal advisers, law enforcement partners, prosecutors, regulators and other stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes
• identify and lead improvements to investigative practice, capability and ways of working.

Essential criteria

An accreditation as a Professionalising Investigations Programme (PIP) level 2 supervisor/manager (or above), or equivalent qualification held previously.

Desirable criteria

It is desirable for candidates to have experience in complex criminal investigations, although not essential.

Further information

The role requires the successful candidate to attain Security Check (SC) vetting clearance, current holders of SC (or above) can transfer their clearance across.

The Insolvency Service will commence SC for those who require it as part of the onboarding process.

Qualifications

An accreditation as a Professionalising Investigations Programme (PIP) level 2 supervisor/manager (or above), or equivalent qualification held previously.

Behaviours

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,367, Insolvency Service contributes £16,619 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

We want you to have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do, so we offer a great benefits package including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where the employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken.