Contract type: Secondment - please note, this role is currently funded only for Financial Year 25/26, with the expectation of continued grant funding
Rank/grade: Police Staff – E Grade
Salary: Starting Salary £40,910, plus £6,710 London Weighting.
Directorate/department: NPCC Cybercrime Team
Vetting level required: MV/SC
Location: Guildhall Yard East. However, the role includes agile working, with a requirement to travel across England, Wales and Scotland
This role is open to all Police Staff candidates who meet the essential criteria of the person spec, regardless of current grade.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest borough in London, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Police Staff Member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from those with disabilities and long-term conditions, those with Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds, female candidates, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
About the team
The Cyber Digital Specials and Volunteers programme, hosted by the National Cybercrime Programme, was established to enhance the capability of Cyber Crime Units across England and Wales, by recruiting skilled individuals from industry and academia to provide their expertise.
The programme is now being expanded to incorporate specialist volunteering to support Fraud and Economic Crime Teams. The effective recruitment and deployment of volunteers across the network is a key workforce strategy workstream, and part of City of London’s Fraud, Economic and Cyber Crime Strategy 2023-2028.
About the role
The National Volunteer Workstream Lead and Deputy Lead are newly created posts for City of London Police, offering significant influence in developing a sustainable structure for national, regional and force-level tasking of highly specialist volunteers, building on existing good practice and implementing the recommendations from the 2024/2025 academic review of the Cyber Digital Specials and Volunteer Programme.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Influence Fraud, Economic and Cyber Crime Teams across England and Wales, at Force and ROCU level, to identify skills gaps, recruit and effectively deploy specialist volunteers
- Work with Home Office and other government departments to build specialist volunteering into law enforcement strategies (including Police Reform programme)
- Management of national volunteer management platform
- Develop consistent, relevant training and CPD for volunteers
- Drive recording of activity for reporting, analysis and evaluation of impact
Requirements
For this role, we need you to have experience of:
- Excellent public speaking, influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels, within policing and external stakeholders, including at senior and executive levels
- Confident, dynamic and resilient, able to drive forward strategy and delivery with limited supervision
- Experience working in fraud, economic and cybercrime or wider SOC welcome but not essential
- Experience working with volunteers (in any context) welcome but not essential
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK.
If you would like to discuss the role, please contact:
Chief Inspector Leanne Alleyne [email protected]
Selection Process
As part of the initial application process, you will be asked to evidence how your experience, skills, and knowledge demonstrate your ability to meet the person specification of the role.
The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 1st July 2025 at 23:59.
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, to be held week commencing 14th July 2025.
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Benefits:
- LGPS Pension Scheme - Local Government Pension Scheme explained - Which?
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme - Welcome to Blue Light Card
- Discounts within the Square Mile specifically for City of London Police employees
- Free access to our Force Gym (with dedicated time for female colleagues throughout the week), Personal Training Instructors with a range of specialisms, and a large variety of fitness and wellbeing programmes
- 29 days’ annual leave + bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with continuous service
- Season Ticket Loans
- Cycle to Work Scheme
A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office-based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit:
https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/police-forces/city-of-london-police/areas/city-of-london/about-us/about-us/equality-and-diversity2/equality-and-diversity-support-networks/
