• Details

Reference number

400724

Salary

£29,475

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Executive Officer

Contract type

Fixed term

Length of employment

9 - 12 Months

Business area

HMRC - CDIO - Emerging Talent

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

10

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Leeds, Telford

About the job

Job summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you’re seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.

Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.

Want to fight cybercrime and build a rewarding career?

Are you currently studying for a degree and looking for a game-changing industrial placement?

Imagine earning while gaining invaluable skills as a Cyber Security Analyst.

This is your chance to make a real impact – apply today and protect our IT!

With our Cyber Security Analyst Industrial Placements, you’ll have the chance to explore different workstreams tailored to your skills and interests. There’s also the potential to rotate across functions during your placement, giving you broad exposure to the world of cyber security.

Role Area 1: Cyber Operations

Here you’ll be at the heart of our cyber security command centres, tackling exciting tasks such as:

• Handling cyber incidents and gathering cyber intelligence.
• Conducting real-time monitoring of HMRC’s environment.
• Leveraging internal security data to implement solutions and identifying potential threats across multiple data sources.

Role Area 2: Identity Verification & Authentication (IDVA)

You’ll be joining the team that protects our Identity and Access Management services. You’ll contribute to high-profile projects that detect and prevent impersonation and account hijacking.

Key responsibilities Include:

• Using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools like Splunk to analyse customer interaction data.
• Identifying suspicious activity and collaborating with teams across HMRC to investigate and intervene.

Program Highlights:

• Exposure to advanced cyber security technologies and methodologies.
• Mentorship from experienced professionals within HMRC’s cyber security team.
• Meaningful contributions to high-profile projects with national impact.

This industrial placement offers university students a demanding yet enriching opportunity within a mission-critical cyber security environment, providing a robust foundation for a successful career in the field. Apply now to contribute to our vital work.

What Can we offer you?

Real-World Impact:

• You’ll be encouraged to bring innovative ideas to the table, with the opportunity to see them implemented in real-time, delivering value across teams.

Hands-On Experience:

• Take part in team exercises and simulations (where available), helping you develop critical problem-solving, collaboration, and teamwork skills.

Professional Development:

• Gain exposure to a variety of cyber security functions, building practical skills and industry knowledge that will support your future career.

Person specification

We are looking for industrial placement students with:

• Strong team working skills
• Strong analytical skills.
• Has attention to detail.
• Effectively communicate using verbal, written and presentation skills to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Interest and awareness of the importance of Cyber Security.
• Ability to handle and analyse data from external sources
• Strong communicator, with excellent technical writing and dealing with external partners and interfaces.

Essential Criteria

• Undergraduate student with a mandatory or optional 9-12 month Industrial Placement course requirement
• You must be in the penultimate year of your degree course
• Studying full time at university, towards a degree in one of the following: Cyber Security, IT, Computer Science, Design/Web Design or Forensic-related degree

Other Information

We’re here to answer any questions about the Industrial Placement Scheme or the role, if there is anything you’d like to know please contact us at:digitalapprenticeshipsandindustrialplacements@hmrc.gov.uk

If you are successful, your placement will start once you have passed all pre employment checks. the Placement will be for a minimum of 9 months. We cannot accept placements any earlier than this.

Due to operational needs, these posts are full-time; however, applicants who need to work a more flexible arrangement are welcome to apply. We can’t guarantee that we can meet all requests to work flexibly as any agreement will be subject to business ability to accommodate. Any request to work a more flexible arrangement should be made prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £29,475, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £8,538 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

To find out more about HMRC benefits and find out what it’s really like to work for HMRC hear from our insiders or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences which will be scored against the experience required outlined in the advert. Think of your CV as a snapshot of your skills, knowledge, and experience. Don’t forget to mention the degree you’re currently pursuing and what year of study you’re in.

• A 500-word personal statement demonstrating “What excites you about this role, and why do you believe you’re a good fit based on the essential criteria.”

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

We acknowledge that AI can assist you in your application. Find our guidelines here.

Sift

In the event of a large number of applications being received, we will focus on your personal statement.

At full sift, your CV and personal statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Interview

As part of the recruitment process at interview, you will be required to verify your student status by providing one of the following:

• A valid, in-date Student ID.
• Official university confirmation of your full-time undergraduate status and a 9 -12 month industrial placement requirement.

Please email these documents to: digitalapprenticeshipsandindustrialplacements@hmrc.gov.uk upon request and before the interview. Failure to provide the required documentation may result in the withdrawal of your application.

During the panel interview, we’ll assess your experience. We’ll dive into your application, exploring your knowledge, experience, and skills related to the essential criteria. Just a heads up, feedback will only be given if you’re selected for an interview. Best of luck!

Interviews will take place virtually. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via:

unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – 400724 & vacancy closing date [insert date]

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

Merit List

After interview, merit lists will be created for each location advertised within the vacancy. If you are successful at interview, you will be placed on the merit list for any locations you have expressed an interest for. Appointments from each merit list will be made in strict merit order.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Additional Security Information

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers

Please note that this role is unsuitable for contractual homeworkers due to the nature and/or requirements of the role.

Terms and Conditions

Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.

HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.

Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.

Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.

If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles .

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Kyle Collins
• Email : digitalapprenticeshipsandindustrialplacements@hmrc.gov.uk
• Telephone : 03000 575076

Recruitment team

• Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of the Recruitment Principles.

In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via ubsrecruitmentcomplaints@hmrc.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.