Independent Football Regulator - Senior Intelligence Analyst

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.

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