El1 Operational Compliance and Coordination

Location: Canberra
- Job Type: Ongoing Full-time
- Salary: EL1 $108,995 - $131,404 pa plus superannuation

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is Australia’s national criminal intelligence agency. We advise senior decision makers on serious and organised crime impacting Australia. We are a full member of the National Intelligence Community, an Attorney General’s Portfolio agency, and a member of the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group.

The ACIC is at the forefront of tackling serious and organised crime targeting Australia, both within our borders and offshore. Our staff operate against a pervasive, transnational and globalised criminal threat, and work hard to realise an Australia hostile to criminal exploitation. As a small agency that makes a real impact on serious and organised crime, we need talented and dedicated people who are intelligent, highly capable and seeking to make a difference to the lives of all Australians.

**About the branch**
The ACIC Intelligence Group business model is founded on four core capability pillars—examinations, technical intelligence, human intelligence and data analytics. These pillars are interconnected and inform one another to guide intelligence collection priorities and methodologies. Collection Operations branch works collaboratively with internal investigations and operational teams and external partners to collect criminal intelligence through covert and sensitive means.

The Operational Strategy Branch aims to develop strategies and programs of work that deliver actionable criminal intelligence to our partners. We do this by leveraging off our national and international footprint to collect intelligence and coordinate operational activity to significantly disrupt domestic and offshore organised crime syndicates adversely impacting on Australia. It also develops opportunities to identify new and emerging threats posed by serious organised crime and ways to mitigate these threats.

The Operational Strategy Branch also involves the international deployments of our transnational criminal analysts to partner agencies. These deployments allow us to leverage off international collaboration to collect unique intelligence in line with the agency mandate. The transnational analysts leverage off our international partners and collect intelligence relevant to our Determinations which adds to our national criminal intelligence holdings to help us discover new threats previously unknown to law enforcement.

**About the role**
The ACIC conducts operations domestically across a range of challenging environments, some of which require staff to exercise discrete policing powers including the use of force (UOF). Consequently, some ACIC officers are required to carry a firearm and other accoutrements.

When operating internationally, ACIC officers are often deployed in small teams into complex environments requiring heightened security awareness in order to safely and effectively deliver operational effect.

This position is responsible for managing the legislative and policy requirements governing the use of firearms and accoutrements within ACIC, leading the training of ACIC officers in the use of force, and for developing ACIC policies and procedures towards industry best practice benchmarks.
- Experience in legislative and policy compliance with respect to the storage, auditing and maintenance of firearms and accoutrements.
- Experience in overseeing the auditing and servicing of accountable firearms, accoutrements and associated storage facilities.
- Can lead the national coordination of training, equipment and quality standards of UOF qualified ACIC Officers.
- Experience in managing internal risk processes around operational safety, training and compliance.
- Has a comprehensive understanding of, or an ability to rapidly acquire a comprehensive understanding of, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Special Member program.
- Identifies opportunities for operational safety skills development.
- Liaises with Australian and foreign law enforcement agencies regarding emerging operational safety issues and technologies.
- Experience in legislative and policy compliance with respect to the storage, auditing and maintenance of firearms and accoutrements.
- Experience in overseeing the auditing and servicing of accountable firearms, accoutrements and associated storage facilities.
- Can lead the national coordination of training, equipment and quality standards of UOF qualified ACIC Officers.
- Experience in managing internal risk processes around operational safety, training and compliance.

**Essential qualifications**
- An ability to obtain Australian Federal Police special membership, including the ability to use force, by virtue of being a current or former sworn member of a state, federal or international law enforcement agency (within the past 5 years).
- Successfully complete an operational medical assessment prior to employment.
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