Senior Education Officer

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• About the job
• Benefits
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• Apply and further information

Birmingham**, Bristol**, London*, Warrington**. *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Vauxhall, or such other reasonable location, on a temporary basis. For the avoidance of doubt as your contractual place of work is Stratford, the move from any temporary place of work will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy. ** Candidates who are based in the Birmingham, Bristol, or Warrington offices will be required to travel to the London office on a weekly basis.

About the job

Job summary

The National Crime Agency’s CEOP Education team aim to help protect children and young people from the threat of online child sexual abuse, reducing vulnerability factors to abuse, through a national education programme – CEOP Education (www.ceopeducation.co.uk).

The programme supports three key audiences: professionals, children aged 4 to 18, parents and carers, and aims to:

• Increase the knowledge of professionals working with children and young people in education settings, of online child sexual abuse (CSA).
• Increase children’s knowledge, skills and resilience, making them safer online and ensuring they know how to seek help when they need it.
• Increase the knowledge and capability of parents and carers to identify online CSA and support children and young people.

The team sits within CSA Threat Leadership in the National Crime Agency, and is a key part of the agency’s Protect response to the CSA threat. 

The programme focuses primarily on a preventative approach to tackling the threat, seeking to inform, support and educate children, young people and the adults around them.

Job description

As a Senior Education Officer, you will have significant experience of either working with children, young people, their families, or the wider safeguarding community. You will be a strong public speaker, with experience in training delivery or public speaking. 

The Senior Education Officer role requires someone with the skills and confidence to effectively line manage others. It also requires someone who can successfully manage projects; taking initiative to develop work-streams, build stakeholder relationships and manage competing demands. 

Please note; This role also requires some travel for the purposes of visiting schools, speaking events, and associated with the creation of educational materials. 

• To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role.***

Person specification

As a Senior Education Officer you will be part of a small, dynamic team, sitting within CSA Threat Leadership at the NCA. 

The team deliver all aspects of the CEOP Education programme, meaning that responsibilities and skills are varied and broad. This includes creating educational resources from conception to launch; drawing on the latest research and intelligence to create proposals, managing commercial processes and supplier relationships, resource writing and design, through to comms and launch plans. 

This may also include a range of other in-house skills such as social media content creation, and writing blog posts, articles and resources. 

Senior Education Officer’s on the team hold line management responsibility and will be working closely day-to-day to support and oversee a minimum of one Education Officer. 

Other significant aspects of the Senior Education Officer role are delivering our two training courses (currently held online) – Understanding Online Child Sexual Abuse and CEOP Education Ambassador training. 

The role also requires taking on tasks ad-hoc and at pace, when required to support the Education Manager or wider work of the team. This may also include attending working groups, speaking at events or writing briefings. 

Desirable Criteria

• Line management experience.

In the event of a tie-break at interview, the panel will progress the candidate with the highest score in the leading technical criteria to determine merit order. If the leading technical criteria scores are still tied, the panel will then assess desirable criteria to determine merit order. If scores are still tied following the review of desirable criteria, then the panel will revert to sift scores to determine merit order.

Behaviours

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

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

• Experience of utilising project management skills to oversee an education or communication resource (For example, training, lesson resources, publications, websites or campaigns) from inception to launch, with proven successful outcomes.
• Proven understanding of CSA threat, including how this presents in an online context and best practice in protecting children from online CSA.
• Experience of developing strategic partnerships, and working effectively with partner organisations to meet a joint objective.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively for a range of audiences.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,347, National Crime Agency contributes £11,163 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• If qualifying criteria is met new joiners to the NCA from UK Police Forces or UKIC will have service with those employers taken into account for continuous service purposes for Annual Leave entitlement only, this will be up to a maximum of 31 days leave (including 1 privilege day).
• Training and development opportunities
• Special leave
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Cycle to work scheme
• Blue Light scheme

For further details on benefits please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers/benefits-and-support

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : NCA Recruitment Team – GRS
• Email : ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : ncarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint in relation to any stage of the recruitment and selection process please email Central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk. please ensure that you refer to the campaign reference number. If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of your complaint you have the right to contact the Civil Service Commission to pursue it further.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-complaints/

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