Senior Contract Manager, Probation & Offender Services

The Methodist Church in Britain; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid working

Training and development

Season ticket loan

Descripción de la vacante

The Ministry of Justice, via HMPPS Wales, is seeking a Senior Contract Manager to oversee a portfolio including Commissioned Rehabilitative Services, with line management responsibility and a hybrid working pattern including some London-based presence.

You will ensure performance, value for money, and compliance across contracts, engaging with national operational teams and supplier partners while leading governance boards and service improvements.

Formación

• Senior management experience in probation or a comparable criminal justice or public offender services environment.
• Senior-level contract or performance management, or service development and commissioning of community offender services.
• Detailed knowledge of policy and strategic developments in community and through-the-gate offender services.
• Understanding of managing and assuring large, complex commercial contracts.

Responsabilidades

• Manage a portfolio of regional contracts, including CRS, for service outcomes, value for money and timely payments against performance.
• Ensure assurance on designated contracts, including on-site presence to observe operations, processes and practice.
• Identify service quality, compliance and supplier performance issues, working with the National Operational Audit Team on the assurance plan.
• Lead contract governance, including dispute resolution, chairing the Service Management Board and Contract Strategy Board, and convening the Change Management Board.
• Oversee interfaces between suppliers, the Probation Service, prisons and other community offender service providers.
• Liaise with the Probation Service in the area to inform the divisional SLA and oversight of the Rehabilitation Services system.

Conocimientos

Staff leadership

Stakeholder management

Contract governance

Change management

Risk & audit

Descripción del empleo

The Ministry of Justice, via HMPPS Wales, is seeking a Senior Contract Manager to oversee a portfolio including Commissioned Rehabilitative Services, with line management responsibility and a hybrid working pattern including some London-based presence.

You will ensure performance, value for money, and compliance across contracts, engaging with national operational teams and supplier partners while leading governance boards and service improvements.