92255 - Executive Head of Membership Guidance & Advice

Salary   The national salary range is £68,967 - £78,842, London salary range is £73,115 - £83,585. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. Number of jobs available   1 Detail of reserve list   12 Months Region   East Midlands, London, National, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber City/Town   National Building/Site   NATIONAL Grade   Grade 6 Organisation Grade for MoJ   Grade 6 Post Type   Permanent Working Pattern   Full Time Role Type   Operational Delivery Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?   Yes Job description  

Overview

Members of Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) are unpaid public appointees (volunteers) who provide statutory, independent scrutiny of the treatment and care of people in prisons and immigration detention. There are approximately 1200 IMB members, organised into around 130 Boards, each with its own Chair. They are appointed by ministers and operate in prisons and young offender institutions (run by HM Prison and Probation Service - MOJ), in immigration removal centres, various short-term holding facilities and on repatriation flights for those being removed from the UK (run by the Home Office).

Lay Observers (LOs) are also unpaid public appointees, whose responsibility it is to check on the welfare of individuals in court custody suites and while they are traveling in the care and custody of escort contractors.

As independent scrutiny bodies, IMBs and LOs have a growing public profile and play an increasingly crucial role in providing assurance to ministers and the public on the conditions and treatment of those held in detention. They are members of the UK’s National Preventive Mechanism, under the UK’s international human rights obligations to prevent torture and other ill-treatment of people in detention. They work closely with HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, who also play a key part in the oversight and assurance of places of detention. The findings of IMBs and LOs are fed into the performance and scrutiny information used by government to contribute to prisons and immigration detention policy and process changes, in line with their commitment to ensuring safe, humane and effective places of detention.

Purpose

This is a significant senior leadership role with considerable freedom to set aims and objectives. As such, the postholder will be held accountable for the performance and delivery of the work areas in remit.

The postholder will deal with complex and contentious issues, of reputational risk to the organisation, solving problems without precedent. They will need to be a creative and future thinker, considering long-term impacts and unintended consequences. They will deliver decisions with authority and defend decisions in the face of opposition. The role will demand a high level of resilience. They will apply highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills with individuals of statutory importance to the organisation. The postholder will lead work across a number of functions and across a wide geographical area.

They will therefore have excellent organisational skills and the ability to deliver well through others. This role will be responsible for excellent customer service and so will need an in-depth knowledge of our functions and requirements.

This role is accountable for operational delivery, the element of our work that carries the greatest strategic risk. 

Responsibilities

The postholder is accountable for our operational activity which supports circa 1200 IMB and LO members to deliver their roles. The G6 will be the most senior point of staff contact for the membership on all operational matters and will act as an escalation point for their team and membership. The postholder will be responsible for the development and application of all policies, guidance and practice applied to the IMB and LO monitoring roles and will ensure these are developed through effective joint working with staff and members alike. This will cover process compliance as well as monitoring and Board management requirements. 

•    Accountable for the member journey from application to end of tenure, this includes member recruitment, induction, training and compliance, such as to data and security requirements.

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