Immigration Officer Jobs – DIRECTOR OF ENFORCEMENT

Overview

Position Title: DIRECTOR OF ENFORCEMENT

Company: UK Home Office

Location: Liverpool, UK

Job Description

Border Force’s mission is to protect the public through a secure border, facilitate legitimate travel and trade and adapt to face the challenges of an increasingly uncertain world. This is achieved in a variety of ways including through the immigration and customs checks carried out by our staff at ports and airports. Immigration Enforcement is responsible for preventing abuse, tracking immigration offenders and increasing compliance with immigration law. It works with partners such as the police and the National Crime Agency to regulate migration, in line with government policy, and tackle organised immigration crime, while supporting economic growth. Our officers across both commands operate together with a number of key partners at over 140 sea and air ports across the UK and overseas. Our combined resources make us the second largest law enforcement organisation in the UK.

Our Enforcement Compliance and Crime directorate is responsible for the frontline enforcement of immigration laws within the UK. The directorate oversees Reporting and Offender Management Centres, unformed immigration and compliance teams, criminal and financial investigators who deal with all facets of organised immigration crimes, as well as those who prevent access to work, benefits and services for those in the country illegally. This director role offers an exciting opportunity to demonstrate strategic and transformational leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment where we work with multiple partners, including faith and community groups, to disrupt organised crime and illegal migration whilst protecting vulnerable people.

Responsibilities:

• Communicating a clear and strong vision for immigration operations to frontline staff.
• Leading the command to tackle illegal migration across the nation
• The post holder will lead a large team of approximately c.1600 staff and will need to work closely with the Clandestine Channel Threat Command in relation to deploying resources to deal with small boats.
• Be responsible for delivery of the Government’s Access to Work, Benefits and Services strategy (compliant environment). In particular, work with Ministers and x-HMG stakeholders to increase the intensity of these measures and be the operational lead for Recommendation Seven of the Wendy Williams Lessons Learned report.
• Leading transformational change of the enforcement teams so that they are fit to respond to new demand and resource challenges by 2025, including location of offices, digital, policy guidance and process changes
• Leading the transformational change of reporting centres, using technology to streamline processes and allow teams to focus on tasks that support a reduction in the illegal population;
• Overseeing reporting centres and transition them to a modern form of contact management. Maximising the opportunities that regular face-to-face interactions presents, including being a source of enforced and voluntary returns;
• Setting the strategic community engagement priorities and leading key relationships and external messaging with faith and community leaders, as well as the media. The purpose is to provide an avenue for low-harm illegal migrants to depart voluntarily from the UK through links with faith and community groups
• Setting the strategic engagement and partnership priorities and leading relationships with senior officials, Ministers, HM Revenue & Customs and other law enforcement bodies to tackle illegality
• Leading and providing direction to the Criminal and Financial Investigations teams, ensuring that, working closely with the NCA, they continue to disrupt Organised Crime Gangs who deal with clandestine and other immigration crime.
• This is a highly politicised working environment and so the post holder will also have regular engagement with Ministers and senior external stakeholders.
• Designing, developing and delivering the strategic and operational law enforcement plans for Borders and Enforcement in line with the Government’s immigration priorities, both in the UK and with our near neighbours in Europe.