8758 - Immigration Policy Lead
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £40,014 i £42,859 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | E14 4BB |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 8758 |
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About Independent Monitoring Boards
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 1100 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 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 (LOs) are also unpaid volunteers appointed by ministers, 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 the government’s commitment to ensuring safe, humane and effective places of detention.
About the role
The post holder will lead on and be responsible for the development and provision of immigration detention policy and research advice, although will also be required to work across the team when necessary on prison and court custody and escort policy and research advice. They will provide support to the IMB National Chair and to individual IMBs to maximise the reach and impact of the work of IMBs. They will be line managed by the Policy Manager and work closely alongside the Prison Policy Lead and the Lay Observer Policy Lead.
The post holder will also be key to identifying avenues where the IMB can influence immigration detention policy development. They will ensure that the IMB is up to date with immigration detention policy changes so that we can inform the membership and ensure that monitoring is in line with latest guidance.
Key responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to (note hyperlinks are embedded within the text to point to published examples of key responsibilities):
• Drafting presentations, policy positions, briefing papers and national / thematic reports
• Collating and analysing various internal and external sources to identify themes/trends and inform policy development, including IMB annual reports and quarterly feedback, associated surveys/information and numerical data sets
• Supporting research as required for policy and impact work, including proposing an appropriate methodology, collecting and analysing data and drafting national/thematic reports
• Supporting the IMB National Chair to develop and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Identifying, coordinating, managing and drafting IMB responses to external consultations in liaison with individual Boards/members and the National Chair
• Drafting and producing written submissions to relevant parliamentary committee inquiries, collating information from Boards and recent annual reports
• Providing briefings, Q&A and support for parliamentary committee hearings etc, including attending, advising and taking notes
• Delivering presentations and providing presentations, briefings, Q&A and supporting information for internal and external stakeholder meetings, including the immigration detention forum, identifying agenda items and following up actions as necessary
• Considering, trialling and embedding better IDE reporting methods for easier policy analysis
• Reviewing Board quarterly feedback to provide top-level analysis of themes prior to the quarterly immigration detention forum
• Being the first point of contact for IMB members on immigration detention policy queries
• Providing policy updates to members via the members’ website or equivalent
• Summarising new policy frameworks and updating the members’ website
• Providing immigration detention policy input to the monitoring advice and guidance team when required
• Briefing the National Chair/CEO for visits to Boards/establishments/external events
• In conjunction with the Policy Manager, horizon scanning for developments in policy, research or practice affecting the work of immigration detention IMBs including identifying opportunities to influence these
• Alongside the Communications Lead, organising internal engagement sessions for IMB members on a range of immigration detention policy topics, including liaising with speakers, and producing summaries
• Working closely alongside the Prison and Lay Observer Policy Leads, covering prison and court custody and escort policy work whenever necessary
• Ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion is considered during the application of all tasks and championed during interaction with the membership
• Working collaboratively with the IMB/LO staff team.
• Performing other job-related duties as required.
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 1100 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 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 (LOs) are also unpaid volunteers appointed by ministers, 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 the government’s commitment to ensuring safe, humane and effective places of detention.
About the role
The post holder will lead on and be responsible for the development and provision of immigration detention policy and research advice, although will also be required to work across the team when necessary on prison and court custody and escort policy and research advice. They will provide support to the IMB National Chair and to individual IMBs to maximise the reach and impact of the work of IMBs. They will be line managed by the Policy Manager and work closely alongside the Prison Policy Lead and the Lay Observer Policy Lead.
The post holder will also be key to identifying avenues where the IMB can influence immigration detention policy development. They will ensure that the IMB is up to date with immigration detention policy changes so that we can inform the membership and ensure that monitoring is in line with latest guidance.
Key responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to (note hyperlinks are embedded within the text to point to published examples of key responsibilities):
• Drafting presentations, policy positions, briefing papers and national / thematic reports
• Collating and analysing various internal and external sources to identify themes/trends and inform policy development, including IMB annual reports and quarterly feedback, associated surveys/information and numerical data sets
• Supporting research as required for policy and impact work, including proposing an appropriate methodology, collecting and analysing data and drafting national/thematic reports
• Supporting the IMB National Chair to develop and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Identifying, coordinating, managing and drafting IMB responses to external consultations in liaison with individual Boards/members and the National Chair
• Drafting and producing written submissions to relevant parliamentary committee inquiries, collating information from Boards and recent annual reports
• Providing briefings, Q&A and support for parliamentary committee hearings etc, including attending, advising and taking notes
• Delivering presentations and providing presentations, briefings, Q&A and supporting information for internal and external stakeholder meetings, including the immigration detention forum, identifying agenda items and following up actions as necessary
• Considering, trialling and embedding better IDE reporting methods for easier policy analysis
• Reviewing Board quarterly feedback to provide top-level analysis of themes prior to the quarterly immigration detention forum
• Being the first point of contact for IMB members on immigration detention policy queries
• Providing policy updates to members via the members’ website or equivalent
• Summarising new policy frameworks and updating the members’ website
• Providing immigration detention policy input to the monitoring advice and guidance team when required
• Briefing the National Chair/CEO for visits to Boards/establishments/external events
• In conjunction with the Policy Manager, horizon scanning for developments in policy, research or practice affecting the work of immigration detention IMBs including identifying opportunities to influence these
• Alongside the Communications Lead, organising internal engagement sessions for IMB members on a range of immigration detention policy topics, including liaising with speakers, and producing summaries
• Working closely alongside the Prison and Lay Observer Policy Leads, covering prison and court custody and escort policy work whenever necessary
• Ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion is considered during the application of all tasks and championed during interaction with the membership
• Working collaboratively with the IMB/LO staff team.
• Performing other job-related duties as required.