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87907 - Partnership and Stakeholder Women's Lead - East Of England

Job details
Posting date: 18 June 2024
Salary: £40,604 to £45,500 per year
Additional salary information: * Please note: Additional London Weighting allowance of £4,126 is applicable to Watford only in East of England Probation Service.
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 July 2024
Location: Eastern England, UK
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company: Ministry of Justice
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 87907

Summary

* Please note: Additional London Weighting allowance of £4,126 is applicable to Watford only in East of England Probation Service.

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.