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WEAPONS SYSTEMS ANALYST REF. 3257

Department  
Analysis
Location(s)  
Cheltenham
Job description  

Salary: £34,663, plus the opportunity for a skills payment, at level 2
(specialist skills) which candidates attain typically between 2 – 3 years in the
role and would see you qualify for a skills payment starting from £7,800.  On
reaching level 3 typically between 5 – 7 years there’s the potential to qualify
for skills payments starting from £14,560.

Flexible Working: we offer a strong work-life balance and support full-time,
part-time, and compressed hours. You’ll be predominantly office-based, with
working from home limited and subject to business need.

About Us

GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK
safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity, and partnerships to identify,
analyse and disrupt threats. Working with our intelligence partners MI5 an MI6,
we protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks, and espionage. At GCHQ you’ll
do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that
puts the emphasis on teamwork.

The Role

As a Weapons Systems Analyst, we’ll train you to understand the capabilities of
certain systems. You’ll be working across all three intelligence agencies, we’ll
train you to understand the capabilities of certain systems growing your
knowledge, with plenty of opportunity to develop yourself and others. This role
is unique and varied and you’ll find yourself working at the cutting-edge of
data analysis. 

The UK Intelligence community maintains a detailed overview of the threats
always posed by foreign weapon systems. This is your opportunity to play a vital
part in the nation’s defence and procurement planning as you learn to paint a
picture of weapons, risks, and threats.

You’ll use a wide range of tools and techniques, some of which will already be
in use. Seeking the best solutions, you’ll bring fresh ideas to the team,
influencing leaders and working diligently to build close relationships with
customers, partners, and the wider team.

Working both on your own and together with colleagues across the intelligence
community, you’ll set the standard for what good looks like, understanding
customer business outcomes and translating this into informed guidance to an
expert community both in this country and overseas.

In the future, as you develop your knowledge and experience, you’ll become the
go-to person. You'll take an active role in mentoring and coaching colleagues,
contributing to the Analysis community, supporting others to upskill and build
their career in an inclusive environment.

About You

To be successful in this role you’ll have – or expect to achieve- a minimum of a
2:2 degree or an equivalent qualification with a scientific content. Or maybe
you have technical or engineering experience, gained in government or the
military. Whatever your background, you’ll have performed detailed data analysis
and have experience writing reports based on that data. You’ll also have four or
more GCSEs at Grade 4/C or an equivalent level 2 qualification including passes
in mathematics and English.

Crucially, you’ll be attentive to small details, confident in handling numbers,
data, and tech with a proactive approach. Comfortable engaging with stakeholders
at all levels, you’ll be working with large, disparate datasets and solving
complex problems, so you’ll have an aptitude for problem solving and a keenness
to work with others, finding solutions to unique challenges. You’ll enjoy
analysing data to reach a conclusion and then using your communication skills to
share your findings in a variety of written formats and in presentations.  

Experience using Microsoft Office, which you’ll use to manipulate and extract
data, would be desirable. Whatever your background, you’ll be adaptable,
motivated, and collaborative, eager to make a positive difference and ready to
learn a wide range of analysis techniques.

Any directly relevant experience – for example, working with military hardware
or languages like Python or MATLAB – would be an advantage, as would practical
knowledge of data science. But please do not rule yourself out if you do not
have these. More importantly, you’ll be tenacious, curious, and enthusiastic,
and be committed to acquiring new skills and learning about unfamiliar
technology.

Training and Development

From day one we’ll support you as a new starter with a dedicated mentor who’ll
help you complete your training plans. While there is some formal or
classroom-based training, much of the learning takes place on-the-job.

This means you’ll take on business tasks and receive full support and training
within months of joining. You’ll be encouraged to move around within the team,
so you’ll constantly be exposed to new learning experiences across multiple
specialisms, providing you with the chance to connect with colleagues and learn
new things.

There’ll even be opportunities for postings to other UK or overseas locations
once you’re fully trained. In short, it’s a role like no other, where you can
use your knowledge and comprehension to become an authority in your field.

Rewards and Benefits  

You’ll receive a starting salary of £34,663, plus the opportunity for a skills
payment, at level 2 (specialist skill) which candidates attain typically between
2 – 3 years in the role and would see you qualify for a skills payment starting
from £7,800. On reaching level 3 typically between 5 – 7 years there’s the
potential to qualify for skills payments starting from £14,560.

Other benefits include:

 * 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service,
   and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
 * Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
 * Interest-free season ticket loan (travel and parking)
 * Excellent pension scheme
 * Cycle to work scheme
 * Facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some
   locations)
 * Paid parental and adoption leave

Equal Opportunities 

At GCHQ diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK,
we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This
includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds,
ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and
those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and
encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are
under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority
background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic
backgrounds. 

Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our
website: 

https://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/life-at-gchq/diversity-inclusion.html 

We’re Disability Confident 

GCHQ are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability
Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently
about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and
develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a
person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and
meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our ‘Offer of Interview’
(OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria which
will be assessed at application sift (in order of application process) are: 

 * Demonstrate the ability to make sense of complex data
 * Demonstrate the use of a range of methods for presenting your findings
 * Demonstrate a willingness towards learning in order to keep pace with
   technology

What to Expect 

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a
brief overview of each stage, in order: 

 * Application sift, looking at your motivation for the role and the
   organisation
 * Competency and technical interview, looking at your motivation for the role
 * If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, subject to
   vetting

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to
the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including
vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have
received your final job offer. 

Before You Apply 

To work at GCHQ, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British
nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here.

This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting
(DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. You
can find out more about the vetting process here.

Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application,
you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous
drug usage at the relevant stage. 

Before you apply, we advise you to consider setting up a separate email address
for your contact with us, to ensure your personal and application correspondence
remain separate. Try to avoid having identifying features in your email address,
such as your first and/or surname and date of birth. This is good practice and
will help you to manage your application with us more discretely. 

The role is based in Cheltenham, so you’ll need to live within a commutable
distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before
submitting an application, as we do not offer relocation costs. 

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you
are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an
application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress
your application. You should not discuss your application, other than with your
partner or a close family member.  

Right to Withdraw Statement:  

Please be aware that we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for
this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications
have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at
your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.




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