About the job

Job summary

As CEO of the Parole Board, you will play a key role in leading and directing the work of the Parole Board and its 220 staff and its 315 members who are public appointees.

The Board has begun a period of modernisation to help it deliver significant improvements following the Root and Branch Review of the Parole System in 2022, and further transformation may be needed in response to the Victims and Prisoners Bill. Alongside this the workload and membership has grown as the prison population is now greater than it has ever been. The successful candidate will, therefore, need to be a strong and inclusive leader who can work across a range of challenges and provide fresh insight.

A priority for the new CEO will be, alongside the Chair, formulating and delivering a strategy that brings innovation, delivers value for money, and maintains public confidence.

This is a Nationally based role.

Job description

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Person specification

The post represents an exciting opportunity to lead a highly regarded organisation, to help it maximise its impact within Whitehall and deliver real results. To be successful in the role, the CEO will be a very experienced and successful leader, capable of organising, facilitating, and motivating members, employees and stakeholders alike.

A key responsibility of the CEO is ensuring that a complex system, which interfaces with a number of other stakeholders, works efficiently and safely. To be effective, the CEO must be able to foster strong joint working with colleagues across the system.

You must resilient and robust with the ability to influence, challenge appropriately and persuade at all levels. Have high levels of political awareness and emotional intelligence and the ability to apply this and to solve problems or prevent them arising. As well as having excellent people skills to achieve the best results from working collaboratively with members, staff and key partners. 

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Additional Information

Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £97,000, Parole Board contributes £29,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.