Business/Performance Analyst 12 month Internship

Details

Reference number

447076

Salary

£36,057

Allowances are reviewed annually and may be increased, decreased or removed. All salary offers will be made in line with Remuneration Policy. Roles based in London will receive an additional London Weighting (Per Annum) of £4218. A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Job grade

Executive Officer

NCA Grade 5, Constable

Contract type

Internship

Business area

NCA - Threat Leadership - National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU)

Type of role

Analytical, Architecture and Data, Digital, Governance, Information Technology, Knowledge and Information Management, Policing, Policy, Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

Number of jobs available

2

Location

London, Warrington
For roles based in London, your contractual place of work will be Stratford. While the Stratford site is expected to become operational from November 2025 – March 2026, you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Vauxhall or another reasonable location on a temporary basis during the interim period. Please note that, as Stratford will be your contractual place of work, any subsequent move from a temporary location will not entitle you to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

About the job

Job summary

Information about the Command

Threat Leadership is responsible for the national response to the Serious Organised Crime (SOC) threats. Our role is to work with partners both inside the NCA and externally to set the strategic direction, facilitate effective delivery of the response, and ensure we understand the impact of our activity. Adopting a threat-led and intelligence-driven approach, we identify emerging challenges and changes to the threat landscape. A key objective is to tackle SOC threats by maximising the benefit of new capability across the system. This approach means we can achieve more with the resources we have and be more effective developing business cases to enhance our response. Driving the multi-agency UK 4P (PURSUE, PREVENT, PROTECT, PREPARE) response by agreeing threat priorities, influencing tasking of operational activity across law enforcement, facilitating partner action and informing policy, regulatory and legislative changes to better protect the public. Threat Leadership leads the national response for Organised Immigration Crime (OIC), Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT), Drugs, Firearms, Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and Borders. Threat Leadership is also home to the National Cyber Crime Unit, which combines Cyber threat leadership with an operational response.

Information about the Business Area

The NCCU is the UK lead for tackling the threat from cyber crime. For the first time, the UK has a single Unit with the responsibility and capability to lead the overall response, coordinate activity across a range of partners, and provide specialist cyber support and expertise across law enforcement.

Role Summary

Join the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) and bring your unique skills to lead the UK’s fight against cybercrime! No previous cyber experience is necessary, but you should be curious to find out more. We want to work with like-minded individuals who are inquisitive and are keen to drive work forward. We are looking for people from a range of backgrounds and/or degree disciplines to spend a whole year working in the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU). This role would be suited to those looking for a year in industry in their degree, who have just finished their studies, or who are seeking to transition to a role within cyber. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We welcome neurodivergent thinkers and offer reasonable adjustments to those who need them.

Job description

In this role, you will be at the heart of shaping the response to the cyber crime threat both within the NCA and beyond. It is a role requiring a strategic outlook, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to respond and deliver quickly and accurately. Depending upon your experience – your role will either be as a business or performance analyst working in one of our 4P, Strategy or Performance teams.

Our 4P teams lead the PURSUE, PREVENT, PROTECT, and PREPARE response to the cyber threat, working with a range of partners across the system to set the strategic direction, agree priorities, coordinate activity, and deliver specific projects to tackle the threat. PURSUE focuses on the UK’s operational, law enforcement response to tackling cyber-crime. PREVENT is focused on deterring, diverting, and disrupting individuals from becoming involved in and committing cyber offences. PROTECT looks at ways to build resilience and keep businesses and individuals safe from cyber-attacks. PREPARE works to test the preparedness of the UK to large scale cyber events at the highest priority level across national and regional levels.

The Strategy and Performance teams lead the NCCU’s strategic engagement with Her Majesty's Government (HMG), Team Cyber UK incl. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and other Partners in support of the response to cyber crime. The team leads on corporate briefings and supports senior leaders across the agency as they represent the NCA on cybercrime issues. The ability to analyse data, information, and statistics and write reports will be beneficial.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Promoting a whole-system approach to tackling cybercrime, ensuring that the NCCU’s work is accurately measured, aligned with national objectives, and continuously improved, by engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
• Problem solving - Tackle problems in an efficient manner, utilising innovative and/or automated approaches where appropriate.
• Undertake research and analysis - Understand how NCCU and wider Team Cyber UK (TCUK) work together best.
• Team working - Work closely with colleagues across all teams to build and deliver new tooling and/or approaches.
• Stakeholder relationship management - Contributing to effective System Leadership, working with stakeholders to drive collaboration and performance across the network, maintaining a network of contacts to enable communication and access to information across TCUK.
• Data-driven approach - Ensuring that the NCCU operates with a data-driven, intelligence-led approach to cybercrime disruption. Responsibility for performance tracking, system-wide impact analysis, ambition setting, disruption monitoring, and reporting; providing strategic oversight that enables the NCCU to align resources effectively and respond proactively to emerging cyber threats.
• Compliance - Ensure the quality, secure handling, and dissemination of information, maintaining confidentiality, sensitivity, and duty of care in line with NCA policy. Ensure oversight in data ethics standards and legislation frameworks, and uses these to review and improve existing processes.

Person specification

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Preparing and delivering slides for a range of senior Governance forums. Consolidating whole-system performance data for strategic insights, allowing for a clearer understanding of NCCUs overall impact.
• Data analysis - Uses analytical skills, varied sources of information, and different methodologies to support decision-making.
• Quality assurance - Supporting the delivery of high-quality, data-led strategic briefings to internal and external stakeholders (including media engagement/coordination), ensuring messaging is consistent, accurate, and aligned with NCCU’s strategic direction.
• Cyber awareness - Understanding the impact of new technologies in creating opportunities for offenders.
• Keen collaborators - Able to seek new, and maintain existing, internal and external relationships.

Behaviours

• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,057, National Crime Agency contributes £10,445 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Benefits include learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options, a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, and a Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Things you need to know

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Selection process details

Your application will be assessed against Experience Criteria with a focus on Cyber Security awareness, data analysis, and experience of planning and meeting deadlines. A panel will evaluate your application based on these criteria. If necessary, a longlist process will be applied.

Assessment includes an interview testing behaviours and experience related to working together, managing quality service, awareness of cybersecurity threats, and data analysis capabilities. Outcomes will be communicated via the NCA recruitment portal, and reserve lists may be utilized.

Vetting requirements - SC Enhanced

Prior to commencing the role, you will need SC Enhanced clearance, which requires UK presence for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failing residency requirements will result in rejection of your security clearance application and individuals will be required to pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.

Hybrid Working

The NCA supports hybrid working, subject to role requirements, which will be discussed at the offer stage.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and an inclusive employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.

Security

Security requirements must be met before appointment, needing baseline personnel security standard checks.

Nationality requirements

This role is open to UK nationals, nationals of Commonwealth countries with right to work in the UK, EU nationals with settled or pre-settled status, among others. Further details on nationality requirements are available.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attracting, retaining, and investing in talent, promoting diversity and inclusion across all levels.