**NP Policy Adviser

Online Pursue and Prevent TeamThis team is focussed on bringing more offenders to justice by ensuring that law enforcement have the intelligence, powers and capabilities required to identify, respond to and prevent child sexual abuse from happening in the first place. The role holder will support the development and delivery of policing policy to best tackle this ever growing and evolving online threat, optimising the law enforcement response for both victims and justice. From digital forensics and cloud capabilities to artificial intelligence and the dark web, legislation has struggled to keep up with the way the internet is used by the police, offenders, and children and young people. Partnering closely with the National Police Chiefs Council, the role holder will play a pivotal role in improving the investigative, technological, and legal handling of online child sexual abuse cases and introducing innovative solutions to emerging issues in a complex, contentious, and high-profile environment.Strategy and International TeamThe work of this team spans oversight and governance relating to strategic cross-government activities and our whole of system response to tackle child sexual abuse; early intervention and prevention work; sponsorship of the independent Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse; and international leadership and stakeholder engagement, including through the UN, Council of Europe, Five Country and G7 forums and with civil society organisations. The role holder will be placed in the Strategy and Early Intervention Team and will support TCSAUs early intervention and prevention work, which includes education resources, harmful sexual behaviour and sponsorship of the Prevention Programme. Key responsibilities The above roles will give the post holders the opportunity to experience the work of implementing a top government policy priority, working in a sensitive and often fast-paced environment to deliver across government and through and with external stakeholders to: Developing policy, leading ok key deliverables and influencing the delivery of policy and projects through others. Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across police, law enforcement, civil society and academia, among others. Providing advice to ministers and working across government to deliver on key priorities. Maintaining core briefs and press lines, ensuring they are up to date across the unit, and responding to correspondence and requests for input to speeches, briefings and other documents relating to work within your policy area. Engaging with stakeholders through multiple forums and representing UK government interests at various events. Please note that the list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder will need to be flexible in light of changing Ministerial priorities. In addition, the post holder will be expected to work flexibly and may be asked to provide support on wider Group priorities as needed.Occasional travel may be required to attend meetings and other stakeholder engagements. The cost associated with any travel will be met by the business area in line with HO policy.