National IOM Partnership and Stakeholder Lead (Ref: 22762)

This position is based Nationally

The National IOM Team is seeking a collaborative and strategic National IOM Partnership and Stakeholder Lead to join our multi-agency team of Police and Probation professionals, driving the development of Integrated Offender Management (IOM) across England and Wales.

The role requires strong partnership-building and stakeholder engagement skills, with responsibility for coordinating national governance, supporting performance and assurance activity, and translating complex information into clear strategic insights for a range of audiences.

Working within a fast-paced national team, the successful applicant will need to demonstrate excellent communication, organisational and analytical skills, alongside the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple agencies and professional disciplines.

There may be some national travel and overnight stays as the role covers England and Wales.

Overview of the job

The Partnership & Stakeholder Lead is responsible for the development of the systems capability to build senior stakeholder relationships between the NPS, CRCs and other partnerships.

NPS has a diverse range of programme and policy areas, most of which are delivered with other partners – this diversity can make it challenging for us to co-ordinate our activities and to avoid confusion. The job holder will not ‘control’ NPS partnership and stakeholder activities, but will act as adviser to Deputy Directors and their Divisions, helping them to target their input and find the best routes through.

The role is also responsible for delivering business change partner support to NPS Divisions and Deputy Directors at a regional level as directed by the System Integration Senior Manager

Summary

The System Integration team will be responsible for ensuring the NPS works as effectively as possible with CRCs and other delivery partners. The roles will include identifying and coordinating delivery to improve effectiveness of operations. In Wales these roles will go further than Probation – they will also include Prison / Probation integration.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

Partnerships & stakeholder development

• Provide key strategic insight, to enable ministerial briefing, on effecting change and engaging key stakeholders
• Lead NPS’ work on developing a professional approach to managing networks and key stakeholders in order to provide a key delivery mechanism for the NPS and its relationships with Partners
• Take an authorship and commissioning role to establishing new and effective partnerships for the NPS
• Develop a relationship management approach for the NPS, in line with HMPPS approaches
• Experiment with new relationship management ideas and processes across the NPS
• Coordinate other Divisions’ developments related to relationship management
• Co-ordinate NPS’ input into cross-Whitehall processes and systems.

Implementing associated change management

• Plan and design the change required to make partnerships with delivery partners as effective as possible
• Coordinate operational input to HQ projects to improve the interfaces between stakeholders and partners

Use communication effectively

• Providing information, feedback and advice
• Influencing and persuading
• Using appropriate skills, styles and approaches

Enhance own performance

• Manage own resources and professional development

Use information to take critical decisions

• Liaise with staff to receive, collate and analyse information, developing

systems and compiling reports as necessary

• Develop and utilise data to identify trends and take appropriate action to maintain and enhance performance
• Plan, implement and manage systems for the exchange of sensitive

information, data and intelligence

Manage Diversity and Quality

• Contribute to a culture and systems that promote equality and value diversity
• Implement the diversity policies of the service and collaborate effectively with the Equalities and Diversity Unit

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alternations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the Job Holder.

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

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