15435 - Senior Member Capability Manager
| Posting date: | 05 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,783 to £51,884 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary is £40,783 - £47,361. London salary is £44,736 - £51,884. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 March 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 15435 |
Summary
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for ensuring the Board has members capable of delivering the tasks required of their role. You will oversee and ensure delivery of clear learning pathways for members, including core training and accreditation. You will clearly align Member L&D these against the needs of the organisation, assessing data to identify deficits to improve and ensure a consistent approach to allow members to deliver the objectives of the Parole Board Business Plan and make quality decisions.
You will ensure that Parole Board members are supported in their wellbeing and tenure management
You will work with the Senior Quality Assurance and Learning Manager to identify areas for development to support members to grow their skills and deliver the objectives of the Parole Board Business Plan.
Scope of Responsibilities: The Senior Capability Manager: Members has responsibility for activities and actions relating to
• Assessing capability needs for members
• Setting the strategic development and delivery of core Member Learning and Development programmes
• Delivery of Member accreditation programmes
• Digitisation of learning
• Managing a team of 6
Primary Deliverables in the first 6 months of role
Delivery of core L&D for:
o MCA
o Chair training
• Delivery of accreditation programmes for:
o NMI (Nov 25 and Jan 26)
o MCA
o Chair training
• Build relationships to support member progression
Person Specification
Essential
• Experience delivering and/ or creating training and/or events.
• Experience of assessing and supporting organisational capability
• Exceptional skills and experience in relationship building
• Demonstrable understanding of working with People
• Approachable and collaborative
• Good understanding of excel and data gathering and reporting
• Strong report writing skills
• Change agent
Willingness to learn new skills and work at pace
Desirable
• Working with Parole Board members or similar membership organisation
• Understanding of the parole process
• Understanding of the delivery requirements of the Parole Board
• Strong presenting skills
Main Duties:
Strategic leadership
• With the Senior Member Standards Manager and relevant HEOs, produce a learning and development strategy for all members.
• Promote an organisational culture of transparency, fairness and independence.
• Actively contribute to, support and shape the capability of the PB business plan, change and organisational priorities.
Capability and accreditation
• Responsibility of progressing members through their accreditation programmes including training, practice development and quality development
• Proactively engage with Members so that they remain committed and engaged in their accreditation programme and that they achieve accreditation in a reasonable timeframe
• Maintain records and data to report on capability, member progression and accreditation, to inform training needs and propose changes.
• Monitor capability data and report on emerging trends and issues
• Identify development pathways linked to delivery of the Parole Board Business Plan and broader strategy.
• With the Senior Member Standards Manager, lead the work driven by Member Education Review Group.
Delivery of core L&D programme
• Delivering the core L&D programme for members ensuring this develops to meet changing needs and fully utilises innovative approaches to L&D in person and hybrid events including but not limited to:
o New member induction training
o MCA training
o Chair training
o TACT training
• Embed new e-learning systems ensuring these are fully utilised, trackable and updated as an L&D tool
• Implement the direction provided by MERC for the content, delivery and evaluation of training and events
• Work closely with the Senior Manager of Quality to close feedback loops for them to develop a member CPD programme.
Relationship building
• Be a reliable and supportive source for all members.
• Work closely with the Member Standards team.
• Build excellent working relationships with colleagues across the Board.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with members who support L&D as facilitators, practice developers and quality developers.
• Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with external stakeholders to ensure the Parole Board’s L&D needs are fully supported
Management
• Manage a team of up to 6.
Other
• Other tasks appropriate to the role as assigned from time to time by the Head of Capability, COO and CEO.
This role is responsible for ensuring the Board has members capable of delivering the tasks required of their role. You will oversee and ensure delivery of clear learning pathways for members, including core training and accreditation. You will clearly align Member L&D these against the needs of the organisation, assessing data to identify deficits to improve and ensure a consistent approach to allow members to deliver the objectives of the Parole Board Business Plan and make quality decisions.
You will ensure that Parole Board members are supported in their wellbeing and tenure management
You will work with the Senior Quality Assurance and Learning Manager to identify areas for development to support members to grow their skills and deliver the objectives of the Parole Board Business Plan.
Scope of Responsibilities: The Senior Capability Manager: Members has responsibility for activities and actions relating to
• Assessing capability needs for members
• Setting the strategic development and delivery of core Member Learning and Development programmes
• Delivery of Member accreditation programmes
• Digitisation of learning
• Managing a team of 6
Primary Deliverables in the first 6 months of role
Delivery of core L&D for:
o MCA
o Chair training
• Delivery of accreditation programmes for:
o NMI (Nov 25 and Jan 26)
o MCA
o Chair training
• Build relationships to support member progression
Person Specification
Essential
• Experience delivering and/ or creating training and/or events.
• Experience of assessing and supporting organisational capability
• Exceptional skills and experience in relationship building
• Demonstrable understanding of working with People
• Approachable and collaborative
• Good understanding of excel and data gathering and reporting
• Strong report writing skills
• Change agent
Willingness to learn new skills and work at pace
Desirable
• Working with Parole Board members or similar membership organisation
• Understanding of the parole process
• Understanding of the delivery requirements of the Parole Board
• Strong presenting skills
Main Duties:
Strategic leadership
• With the Senior Member Standards Manager and relevant HEOs, produce a learning and development strategy for all members.
• Promote an organisational culture of transparency, fairness and independence.
• Actively contribute to, support and shape the capability of the PB business plan, change and organisational priorities.
Capability and accreditation
• Responsibility of progressing members through their accreditation programmes including training, practice development and quality development
• Proactively engage with Members so that they remain committed and engaged in their accreditation programme and that they achieve accreditation in a reasonable timeframe
• Maintain records and data to report on capability, member progression and accreditation, to inform training needs and propose changes.
• Monitor capability data and report on emerging trends and issues
• Identify development pathways linked to delivery of the Parole Board Business Plan and broader strategy.
• With the Senior Member Standards Manager, lead the work driven by Member Education Review Group.
Delivery of core L&D programme
• Delivering the core L&D programme for members ensuring this develops to meet changing needs and fully utilises innovative approaches to L&D in person and hybrid events including but not limited to:
o New member induction training
o MCA training
o Chair training
o TACT training
• Embed new e-learning systems ensuring these are fully utilised, trackable and updated as an L&D tool
• Implement the direction provided by MERC for the content, delivery and evaluation of training and events
• Work closely with the Senior Manager of Quality to close feedback loops for them to develop a member CPD programme.
Relationship building
• Be a reliable and supportive source for all members.
• Work closely with the Member Standards team.
• Build excellent working relationships with colleagues across the Board.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with members who support L&D as facilitators, practice developers and quality developers.
• Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with external stakeholders to ensure the Parole Board’s L&D needs are fully supported
Management
• Manage a team of up to 6.
Other
• Other tasks appropriate to the role as assigned from time to time by the Head of Capability, COO and CEO.