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Salary- Location: Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney
- Job Type: Ongoing/Non-ongoing, Full-time
- Salary: $108,995 - $131,404 per annum plus 15.4% superannuation (salary effective from 30 December 2022)
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 group
The Intelligence Group is responsible for delivering intelligence outcomes across the four core capability pillars —coercive examinations, technical intelligence, human intelligence and strategic intelligence / data analytics. These pillars are interconnected in order to maximise criminal intelligence insights and inform operational opportunities to disrupt serious and organised crime.
With a number of branches across two divisions, the Intelligence Group covers the breadth of serious and organised crime issues – from illicit drugs and money laundering, to financial crime, illicit firearms, gangs and criminal networks.
About the roles
Investigators lead, plan and implement the ACIC’s intelligence operations to generate both unique insights into transnational serious and organised crime (TSOC) and opportunities for enforcement agencies to disrupt these networks. Investigators employ intelligence collection tradecraft, investigative methodologies and project management skills whilst leveraging ACIC capabilities including coercive powers, human intelligence, physical and technical surveillance, bulk data and advanced analytics. They do this within multi-disciplinary teams to understand and shape the environment to ensure operational intelligence strategies deliver on ACIC objectives. Senior Investigators will also support the delivery of ACIC’s legislated capability for conducting criminal intelligence assessments for certain licences on request from Department of Home Affairs.
Investigators are results orientated, adept at managing risk and comfortable with partial operational autonomy. Successful applicants may be required to travel domestically or internationally. They must be able to develop productive working relationships which enhance or leverage opportunities with Law Enforcement and National Intelligence Community partners, to ensure the ACIC is positioned to deliver intelligence insights and operational outcomes.
Our ideal candidate
- Has significant experience in implementing complex intelligence operations and/or investigations that generate unique insights into TSOC or similarly complex networks.
- Collaborates with stakeholders, including state and federal police and five eyes law enforcement group partners, to ensure optimal outcomes for ACIC intelligence operations.
- Can extract relevant information from intelligence operations and investigations to produce unique and impactful information and intelligence reports.
- Understands, and operates effectively, within the context of relevant legislative, policy and legal frameworks domestically and offshore.
- Has highly developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to develop and maintain collaborative and productive internal and external working relationships.
- Demonstrates a proven capacity to operate as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a dynamic, agile environment to drive intelligence outcomes.
- May have experience in the cultivation, recruitment and management of human sources and the effective deployment of human sources against operational objectives.
- Investigators at this level will have significant experience in an intelligence or investigative role in either the National Intelligence Community or law enforcement.
- Successfully complete the Investigator Training Program on commencement with the ACIC.
- As an employee in a designated high-risk role, complete an annual psychological assessment.
- The ability to obtain and maintain Australian Federal Police special membership, including the ability to use force, either as a result of being a current or former sworn member of a state, federal or international police or law enforcement agency, or the ability to undertake the appropriate training.
- If this role is being advertised as ongoing and non-ongoing, it may be offered as ongoing or non-ongoing subject to operational requirements and/or candidate preference. Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for a specified term of up to 18 months. A specified term may be extended up to a maximum period of 3 years.
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the APS, unless the agency head has agreed otherwise, in writing. For further information, contact the Recruitment Team.
- The Australian community expects ACIC employees to maintain the highest levels of security and integrity. Successful applicants will be required to obtain and maintain, or continue to hold, the required security clearance for this role. All ACIC employees are required to hold a minimum Negative Vetting 1 security clearance, unless otherwise specified.
- All candidates must satisfy an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) prior to being offered employment at the ACIC. This requires the applicant to undergo character and background screening, and participate in a psychological assessment. Please refer to our Character Standards for further information.
- To be eligible to work at the ACIC, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Being fully vaccinated ensures the health and safety of all employees, and the Australian community. Satisfactory proof of vaccination status will be required before you are able to commence employment with the ACIC.
More information about our conditions is available in the ACIC Enterprise Agreement 2016–2019 and Determination 2019/1 on our website.
