Senior Manager - National Cyber Crime Unit Strategy

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

National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) is the UK lead for tackling the threat from cyber crime - a single Unit with the responsibility and capability to deliver operations, lead the overall UK response, coordinate activity across a range of partners, and provide specialist cyber support and expertise across law enforcement.

Job description

This is a high profile and exciting opportunity to join the NCCU Threat Leadership Strategy function. You will be at the heart of shaping the response to the cybercrime threat both within the NCA and beyond, leading your team to deliver key governance functions as well as directing and influencing tasking to mitigate the threat. It is a role requiring a strategic outlook, strong interpersonal skills with a range of stakeholders, and the ability to deliver quickly, accurately and collaboratively.

Role Description

The Threat Leadership function within the National Cyber Crime Unit comprises the Strategy, Performance & Impact, and 4P Hub teams. The Strategy team is responsible for shaping and

driving the strategic direction across Team Cyber UK; better enabling us to tackle the cybercrime threat. It does this through four core functions: Development and maintenance of threat understanding and strategic response frameworks (National Control Strategy & Strategic Action Plan); HMG Engagement including advocating for legislative reform; Coordination with International Partners and overseeing Briefings for NCA and other seniors. As G2 Senior Manager, you will work closely with a range of partners, including law enforcement, Government and private sector, to plan, coordinate and drive delivery of the cybercrime response.

Person specification

Drive NCCUs engagement across Government (HMG) to ensure cybercrime policy, legislative frameworks, and strategic responses align with national security, HMG and SOC priorities. - Leading engagement with the Home Office, NPCC and HMG stakeholders. Advocating for legislative and regulatory reforms to enhance cybercrime enforcement. Representing NCCU at national strategic forums. Monitoring and reporting on cyber threats to inform government decision making. Collaborating with partners and industry stakeholders to ensure alignment on cyber threat responses.

Strategically position the NCCU with global partners to enhance collaboration against serious organised cybercrime (SOC) targets - Developing and maintaining a prioritised list of countries for engagement based on threat impact and feasibility. Creating country-specific plans outlining collaboration objectives, mechanisms, and key stakeholders and monitoring performance against those plans. Coordinating international visits and engagements, ensuring alignment with NCCUs Threat Response. Liaising with CILOs and NCA International teams and HMG to align global efforts. Arranging and conducting international visits in order to progress the Strategic objectives of the NCCU and develop opportunities, relationships and understanding. Developing the NCCU’s contribution to International forums, and supporting DD NCCU to further ambitions for international collaboration. This includes forums such as International Pillar Meeting (IPM), Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI), Cybercrime9 (C9) and FVEYs Law Enforcement Group (FELEG), Joint Cyber Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and EMPACT.

Inform, influence and advise seniors through delivering high quality, strategic briefings to internal and external stakeholders (including media engagement/coordination) - Preparing and delivering strategic briefings for government officials, senior leadership, industry partners, and law enforcement agencies. Collating intelligence and operational updates to ensure briefings remain current and impactful. Ensuring clear, consistent messaging that informs and influences decision making. Maintaining NCCU core narrative, structured briefing templates and processes for efficiency. Inform, advise and influence the strategic direction by providing high-quality, strategic briefings to internal and external stakeholders (including media engagement/coordination). Ensure NCCU provides consistent and accurate messaging whilst maintaining operational security both internally and externally

Develop, maintain, and govern the cyber contribution to the National Control Strategy (NCS) and ensure delivery against the Cyber Strategic Action Plan (SAP) to drive an effective response to cyber threats - Establishing clear threat response frameworks in collaboration with NCCU and TCUK subject matter experts (SMEs) for inclusion in the NCS. Developing and driving activity against the SAP, ensuring it remains consistent with the NCS and provides clear direction on the required response – holding deliverable owners to account. Coordinating and driving senior governance meetings to oversee SAP and strategic priorities. Guiding the approach to strategic cyber assessments, including National Strategic Assessment (NSA) and National Intelligence Requirements (NIRs). Providing governance oversight and assurance at senior-level forums. Influencing Agency strategy through engagement with NCA Strategy teams. Engaging with Delivery Hub leads, operational teams, and intelligence units to ensure strategic alignment and communicate strategic direction. To ensure strategic resources are allocated effectively, the team will review the SAP in consultation with threat SMEs, regional/network leads and NCCU leadership, ensuring the SAP remains aligned with national priorities.

Leadership - Lead your teams effectively by remaining flexible, agile and open in thought and action. Providing oversight of national strategies and action plans, ensuring that they align with strategic objectives, through established governance structures.

People development - Being passionate about diversity and developing people inclusively, strengthening their ability to deliver and enabling them to grow in their roles and careers. You will actively coach and engage people, building their resilience through supporting them in their roles and enabling their wellbeing.

Decision-making - Being threat-led and data-driven in decision making, identifying and utilising data streams to inform on unit posture and to enhance evidence based decision making. Navigating team members through ambiguity by making evidence and/or values-based decisions to prioritise strategically. Being proactive and ambitious on efficiencies, finding opportunities to remove duplication and standardising and simplifying where possible. Doing so, you will balance financial and people resources to deliver against changing priorities.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Knowledge of the serious and organised crime (SOC) system - Good knowledge of the serious and organised crime (SOC) system – in particular cybercrime and/or online crime – including partnership working, law enforcement processes and disruption opportunities.

Negotiating and Influencing - Ability to influence tasking decisions and to broker resource internally and externally.

Communication skills - Strong report writing and presentation skills.

Interpersonal skills - Excellent interpersonal skills with experience of working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to progress complex work.

Effective decision making - Experience in effective decision-making, demonstrating accountability and good judgement.

Seeing the bigger picture - Understanding the strategic drivers for tackling the cyber threat and remaining cognisant of, and aligned with, wider NCCU and Agency priorities.

Leadership - Ability to lead a team or group of colleagues/stakeholders to deliver an objective.

Delivering at pace - Experience of working to tight deadlines and managing competing demands.

Entry requirements: Skills, Knowledge or Experience

Good knowledge of the serious and organised crime (SOC) system – in particular cybercrime and/or online crime – including partnership working, law enforcement processes and disruption opportunities - Knowledge of Serious Organised Crime (SOC) particularly cyber or online crime is essential before undertaking a senior cyber strategy management role due to the increasingly interconnected nature of modern criminality and national security threats. Cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime underpin a wide range of organised criminal activity, including fraud, ransomware, money laundering, child exploitation, and hostile state activity. A senior manager must understand how organised crime groups exploit technology, digital infrastructure, and online platforms to conduct and conceal criminal operations. This knowledge enables informed strategic decision-making, credible engagement with operational and intelligence partners, and alignment with national threat priorities. Prior understanding of SOC and cyber also ensures strategies are grounded in operational realities, legislative considerations, and evolving threat methodologies. Without this foundation, there is a risk that strategic direction may lack relevance, fail to address key threats, or overlook opportunities for disruption and prevention. Demonstrable knowledge of SOC particularly cyber and/or online crime should therefore be considered a prerequisite for the role.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £70,179, National Crime Agency contributes

£20,330 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• All NCA employees are members of the UK Civil Service and eligible for the Civil Service pension scheme, alongside your salary the NCA contributes £19,586. Further information on the benefits of the scheme is available on the Civil Service Pension Website.

New entrants to the NCA receive 26 days annual leave, rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service, plus 8 bank holidays.

If qualifying criteria is met new joiners from UK Police Forces or the UK Intelligence Community (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).

Other benefits include:

• Flexible working, including flexi-time, compressed hours and job sharing (in line with business requirements)
• Family friendly policies, notably above the statutory minimum
• Learning and Development opport