Reporting and Insights Officer

Job summary

The AI Security Institute (AISI) is the largest team in a government dedicated to understanding AI capabilities and risks in the world.

Our mission is to equip governments with an empirical understanding of the safety of advanced AI systems. We conduct research to understand the capabilities and impacts of advanced AI, and develop and test risk mitigations. We focus on risks with security implications, including the potential of AI to assist with the development of chemical and biological weapons, how it can be used to carry out cyber-attacks, enable crimes such as fraud, and the possibility of loss of control.

The risks from AI are not sci-fi, they are urgent. By combining the agility of a tech start-up with the expertise and mission-driven focus of government, we’re building a unique and innovative organisation to prevent AI’s harms from impeding its potential.

Job description

The AI Safety Institute (AISI) is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented SEO to support the delivery of high-impact reporting products that translate technical insights on artificial intelligence (AI) risks into accessible, policy-relevant outputs for policy and assessment customers. Generating world-leading scientific insights into AI risk is only the beginning – those insights must reach the right decision makers at the right time.

Working closely with the G7 Reporting Lead and AISI’s Research Unit, you will play a key role in shaping how AISI communicates its findings across government, converting our research outputs into short, decision-relevant reports for time-poor policy makers and risk owners and disseminating these across HMG..

Tasks will range from small, well-defined pieces of work, where both output and process are defined, to long term programmes where you will need to establish relationships; visiting stakeholders, attending meetings virtually or in person and seeking out relevant information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver reporting products that meet government user needs and uphold methodological rigour.

• Help integrate AISI insights into national security assessments, assisting the G7 reporting lead in representing AISI publications and insights at the appropriate .forums.

• Assist in building and maintaining feedback mechanisms to improve the quality and relevance of AISI outputs, collecting metrics of impact from AISI reports and feeding these back to the authoring teams and senior leadership.

• Develop a strong working relationship with the delivery managers from the technical teams within AISI’s Research Unit to anticipate upcoming research outputs, and build a quarterly forecast of upcoming publications so that AISI reporting products can be resourced and prioritised.

• Make AISI products accessible across government platforms, maintaining and continuously improving the systems we use to share AISI reports across HMG – including email distribution lists, SharePoint, INDEX and national security databases. This includes monitoring these systems and responding to requests to quote AISI reporting or requests to share it with a wider audience.

• Assist the G7 reporting lead in delivering on our strategy for sharing AISI reporting with allied governments.

• Develop a deep knowledge of AISI’s research output and be able to speak authoritatively in cross HMG fora on AISI’s areas of published reporting.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how the UK Government responds to emerging AI risks.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Deep commitment to public service and long-term impact.

• Excellent communication skills, especially with technical content.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively and excellent attention to detail.

• Proven ability to deliver in a fast-changing environment.

Desirable Criteria:

• Familiarity with cross HMG publishing infrastructure (SharePoint, INDEX, Outlook distribution tools) and the processes for sharing reporting across government and with international partners.

• Familiarity with intelligence assessment methodologies.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £47,355, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £13,718 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 500 words) to advise how you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Applications will be sifted on when the job closes.

Please note - the CV incorporated into the application form is for information purposes only and will not be scored.

The interview will consist of 3 stages assessing behaviours and experience with a written task in interview 2.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

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