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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Establish project scope
   • Identify intelligence projects in line with jurisdictional priorities.
   • Identify clients/stakeholders to facilitate communication and establish ownership of project.
   • Formalise communication with clients/stakeholders to develop common understanding.
   • Identify client/stakeholder expectations to formulate project objectives and priorities.
   • Compare project to workload in order to determine priority, scope, and resource requirements.
   • Negotiate timeframes for project in accordance with client/stakeholder requirements.
   • Identify potential implications and constraints that may impact upon the project.
2. Develop a project plan
   • Identify objectives and key issues to direct and inform intelligence activities.
   • Select strategies and methodologies to complete project objectives.
   • Identify resources required to achieve project objectives.
   • Negotiate with clients/stakeholders for allocation of resources.
   • Consider risks to the project in order to identify and select mitigation measures.
   • Develop measures to mitigate risk and build resilience in the project.
   • Develop information collation strategies to ensure accessibility and retrievability of information.
   • Draft project plan for recording, approval and implementation purposes.
3. Establish project scope
   • Identify intelligence projects in line with jurisdictional priorities.
   • Identify clients/stakeholders to facilitate communication and establish ownership of project.
   • Formalise communication with clients/stakeholders to develop common understanding.
   • Identify client/stakeholder expectations to formulate project objectives and priorities.
   • Compare project to workload in order to determine priority, scope, and resource requirements.
   • Negotiate timeframes for project in accordance with client/stakeholder requirements.
   • Identify potential implications and constraints that may impact upon the project.
4. Develop a project plan
   • Identify objectives and key issues to direct and inform intelligence activities.
   • Select strategies and methodologies to complete project objectives.
   • Identify resources required to achieve project objectives.
   • Negotiate with clients/stakeholders for allocation of resources.
   • Consider risks to the project in order to identify and select mitigation measures.
   • Develop measures to mitigate risk and build resilience in the project.
   • Develop information collation strategies to ensure accessibility and retrievability of information.
   • Draft project plan for recording, approval and implementation purposes.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

aligning identified projects with organisational priorities and workload

liaising and negotiating with stakeholders

identifying scope, priority, time frames and phases, and resources of intelligence project

identifying financial, human and physical resource requirements and limitations

developing and recording intelligence plan, including aims/objectives/key issues

evaluating strategies, methodologies and information collation techniques to best achieve intelligence project objectives

evaluating and responding to risks

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

Commonwealth, state and territory legislation applicable to intelligence practice, including privacy, freedom of information, security classifications, and the collection of information

jurisdictional policies, procedures and memoranda of understanding related to the sharing of information, planning processes, resource management, and information sourcing processes

jurisdictional goals and objectives

jurisdictional information management systems, including intelligence databases

information security principles

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