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89589 - Training Officer, Independent Monitoring Boards and Lay Observers
| Posting date: | 12 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £31,169 to £32,760 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 September 2024 |
| Location: | E14 4PU |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 89589 |
Summary
Summary
This role provides an excellent opportunity to get involved in the work of the IMB and LO’s delivering training to new voluntary IMB and LO members and leaders plus to work with a wide range of paid and voluntary staff including senior stakeholders.
The postholder will be highly organised and confident with dealing with a wide range of stakeholders, particularly volunteers, in a fast-paced environment.
PLEASE NOTE the Training Officer will be required to attend the IMB courses for members in person. This means a period of 48 hours at various locations across England on a roughly monthly basis. Each course requires one or two nights away and often includes Saturday working. Overtime/time off in lieu will be applied where appropriate.
Purpose
Members of the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) are unpaid public appointees who provide statutory, independent scrutiny of the treatment and care of people in prisons and immigration detention. They are appointed by ministers and operate in prisons and young offender institutions (run by HM Prisons 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 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.
The postholder will oversee and deliver the core training offer to IMBs and LOs nationally and regionally plus provide logistical support to the roll out of new training programmes.
The postholder will:
Manage a core annual programme of training events including attendance at events
Lead on the administration and analysis of robust delegate feedback mechanisms
Responsibilities
Event management, attendee management, liaising with the national training team, managing training content and feedback management. They will ensure that the needs of individual delegates among our diverse membership are catered for.
Support planning and delivery of logistics for up to two National networking events.
Responsible for delivery of the national training timetable to cover a year of dates, published in good time to the membership and to trainers.
Establish effective and mutually trustful relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including members, board leaders and the national training team.
Ensure that the national training team and other trainers are well supported including new recruits, assigning of mentors, overseeing new trainer training and that trainers have all the materials they need in a timely fashion to deliver member training.
Working within guidance ensure that rigorous and effective training record keeping is maintained to ensure all members receive required and mandatory training within an effective timescale and that members’ training experience is not incomplete.
Maintain an effective training content management system using shared storage via the Kahootz platform and ensure that all national trainers are confident with accessing and using the system.
Build on existing mechanisms for capturing delegate feedback to combine surveys, My Learning and other recording methods to deliver a comprehensive training feedback programme and ensure that themes and recommendations are fed effectively into future training delivery.
Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion is considered during the application of all tasks and championed during interaction with the membership.
Performing other job related duties as required.
Knowledge, skills & behaviours
Understands how to work with and through volunteers.
Has experience in organising events and event attendance including venue management and delegate care
Enjoys working with a wide variety of people at multiple levels of seniority
Can quickly build positive working relationships with colleagues and voluntary public appointees.
Is experienced at identifying problems before they arise and taking mitigating action
Has excellent organisational skills, a strong eye for detail, can prioritise effectively and is focussed on quality delivery and meeting deadlines
Can apply learning from previous events to continual improvement of future events
This role provides an excellent opportunity to get involved in the work of the IMB and LO’s delivering training to new voluntary IMB and LO members and leaders plus to work with a wide range of paid and voluntary staff including senior stakeholders.
The postholder will be highly organised and confident with dealing with a wide range of stakeholders, particularly volunteers, in a fast-paced environment.
PLEASE NOTE the Training Officer will be required to attend the IMB courses for members in person. This means a period of 48 hours at various locations across England on a roughly monthly basis. Each course requires one or two nights away and often includes Saturday working. Overtime/time off in lieu will be applied where appropriate.
Purpose
Members of the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) are unpaid public appointees who provide statutory, independent scrutiny of the treatment and care of people in prisons and immigration detention. They are appointed by ministers and operate in prisons and young offender institutions (run by HM Prisons 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 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.
The postholder will oversee and deliver the core training offer to IMBs and LOs nationally and regionally plus provide logistical support to the roll out of new training programmes.
The postholder will:
Manage a core annual programme of training events including attendance at events
Lead on the administration and analysis of robust delegate feedback mechanisms
Responsibilities
Event management, attendee management, liaising with the national training team, managing training content and feedback management. They will ensure that the needs of individual delegates among our diverse membership are catered for.
Support planning and delivery of logistics for up to two National networking events.
Responsible for delivery of the national training timetable to cover a year of dates, published in good time to the membership and to trainers.
Establish effective and mutually trustful relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including members, board leaders and the national training team.
Ensure that the national training team and other trainers are well supported including new recruits, assigning of mentors, overseeing new trainer training and that trainers have all the materials they need in a timely fashion to deliver member training.
Working within guidance ensure that rigorous and effective training record keeping is maintained to ensure all members receive required and mandatory training within an effective timescale and that members’ training experience is not incomplete.
Maintain an effective training content management system using shared storage via the Kahootz platform and ensure that all national trainers are confident with accessing and using the system.
Build on existing mechanisms for capturing delegate feedback to combine surveys, My Learning and other recording methods to deliver a comprehensive training feedback programme and ensure that themes and recommendations are fed effectively into future training delivery.
Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion is considered during the application of all tasks and championed during interaction with the membership.
Performing other job related duties as required.
Knowledge, skills & behaviours
Understands how to work with and through volunteers.
Has experience in organising events and event attendance including venue management and delegate care
Enjoys working with a wide variety of people at multiple levels of seniority
Can quickly build positive working relationships with colleagues and voluntary public appointees.
Is experienced at identifying problems before they arise and taking mitigating action
Has excellent organisational skills, a strong eye for detail, can prioritise effectively and is focussed on quality delivery and meeting deadlines
Can apply learning from previous events to continual improvement of future events