9806 - Counter Corruption Administration Specialist

Ministry of Justice; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental agency is seeking an individual for an administration support role within the Counter Corruption Unit. This position involves managing the CCU's caseload and supporting counter-corruption efforts in regional prisons. The role requires excellent organizational skills, a deep understanding of corruption-related policies, and the ability to liaise with various stakeholders. Daily travel to two prison establishments is necessary, and some contact with prisoners may be required.

Qualifications

• Understanding relevant legal and policy frameworks relating to corruption, security and HR.
• Ability to maintain accurate records and correspondence with relevant stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide administration support for the CCU’s counter-corruption caseload.
• Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for the local counter corruption manager.
• Coordinate awareness sessions on behalf of the counter corruption unit.

Job description

Overview

This regional role may require delivering work within other sites in the region based on business need. The role holder is responsible for the following cluster of sites:
• HMP Aylesbury
• HMP Bullingdon
• HMP Grendon/Spring Hill
• HMP Huntercombe
• HMP Woodhill

The role sits in the Counter Corruption Unit (CCU) within the Security, Order and Counter Terrorism (SOCT) Directorate. HMPPS’s efforts to tackle corruption are integral to delivering safe and secure prisons and probation. HMPPS has developed a future strategy for tackling corruption with four objectives: Protect, Prevent, Pursue, and Prepare. These objectives will be delivered at every level through prisons and probation, strengthening frontline resilience. The CCU is being restructured to provide senior operational leaders, prisons and probation teams with an improved counter-corruption service. This role is non-operational with no line management responsibilities and is not rotational.

Summary

The role sits in the newly restructured Counter Corruption Unit (CCU). Its objectives are to support prisons and probation in managing corruption threats, in particular helping establishments prevent corruption within HMPPS.

The core service is to provide administration support for the CCU’s counter-corruption caseload for two establishments within the region, working alongside the local counter corruption manager to effectively manage corruption risks in prison establishments. The role will also support the management of known corruptor prisoners in custody to prevent them from corrupting staff. The job holder reports directly to the Regional Corruption Pursue Manager, who reports to the Regional Corruption Pursue Lead. The post holder will not have management responsibilities. This is a regional post and will be based in two establishments, with daily travel to one prison and frequent travel to regional offices. Occasional travel outside the region (e.g., to London) may be required. Contact with prisoners may be required depending on the area of work.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

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

• Having a contemporaneous understanding of the operational context in prisons—priorities, risks and opportunities to better tackle corruption.
• Understanding relevant legal and policy frameworks relating to corruption, security and HR, and ensuring these are followed when providing services to prisons.
• Organise, produce and maintain accurate records for the local counter corruption manager.
• Act as contact point for all communications to the counter corruption team, prioritise and distribute to the local counter corruption manager in the establishment and the regional counter corruption team.
• Complete any monitoring returns required on behalf of the establishment for the counter corruption unit.
• Coordinate awareness sessions on behalf of the counter corruption unit.
• Prepare paperwork for checking by their manager and conduct initial checks as required.
• Correspond with relevant stakeholders and agencies to ensure information related to corruption is shared in line with agreed process.
• Maintain and check establishment databases for managing corruption, filing systems and logs of information with responses within timescales, producing reports as required.
• Arrange meetings including preparation of paperwork, minutes and action points for effective management of corruption.
• Be the first point of contact for prisons to signpost policies, procedures and key contacts to support counter corruption work.
• Coordinate CCU prevent teams’ attendance/cover to support establishments in delivering their prevent agenda.
• Identify blockages to progress and take action; escalate to the Regional Corruption Unit as appropriate.
• Monitor and review the relative priority of corruption work and caseloads, escalating to the Regional Corruption Prevent Manager as needed.
• Enter data onto CCU systems, ensuring information is captured accurately and is easy to understand.
• Understand the team’s caseload, including working with analysts to report on management information and data on volumes, timeliness and outcomes of cases across the region.
• On direction of the Regional Corruption Prevention Lead and Regional Corruption Prevent Manager, may work with prisons to understand capability gaps and signpost wider capability opportunities, best practice and guidance, and support light touch research to inform our evidence base on corruption.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and are not exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations 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 with the job holder.