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**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 237535**Salary**:

- £37,450 - £41,193**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Borders and Enforcement**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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**Summary**:
Immigration Enforcement (IE) is part of the newly formed Borders and Enforcement established on 01 April 2021 under the One Home Office transformation programme.

Immigration Enforcement (IE) is the operational arm of the Home Office responsible for reducing the size of the illegal population and the harm it causes. Its key missions are:

- To prevent illegal immigration through greater compliance with immigration laws.
- Maximising returns of immigration offenders and Foreign National Offenders from the UK.
- Tackling the threats associated with immigration offending.

IE works with law enforcement and cross-government partners to tackle serious and organised immigration crime with a focus on bringing to justice those who exploit the vulnerable, for example cases of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Immigration Enforcement prides itself on being an open and supportive workplace. We actively embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity, to enable us to reflect the communities that we serve. We provide people with the opportunity to work at pace and deliver in stretching roles.

**Job description**:
Detention and Escorting Services (DES) is part of Immigration Enforcement (IE) and supports compliance across the immigration system through the detention and removal of individuals who no longer have the right to remain in the UK, and for whom other enforcement approaches have been unsuccessful. DES is responsible for running the immigration removal estate, which principally comprises seven immigration removal centres (IRCs). We have a responsibility to ensure that people in detention are held securely, safely and are treated with dignity and respect. DES is also responsible for the safe escorting of detained individuals within the UK and on removal to countries of return.

Both immigration detention and escorting are highly scrutinised in the media, Parliament and by independent bodies and inspectorates. DES is responsible for ensuring recommendations are addressed and continuous improvements are made within the detention estate.

The Corporate Operations and Oversight Team (COOT) sits within DES and has a dynamic remit to support the operations of the detention and escorting estate. Our work includes; responding to Ministerial and public correspondence, PQs, FOIs and complaints; and leading for DES in responding to litigation and deaths in detention. Additionally, we undertake detention-related audit, assurance and risk management, and respond to external reviews of the immigration removal estate (including but not limited to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration [ICIBI] and the National Audit Office); driving improvements for DES and the wider business. The team collaborates with partners across the business to motivate change in operational policy development.

**Responsibilities**:
This post sits within the Corporate Operations team within COOT. The primary responsibility of the post is to lead the team responsible for a key corporate function in DES, briefing and correspondence focused on detention and escorting. The role has direct line management responsibility for 2 x Higher Executive Officers (HEOs) and their teams (approximately 4 staff in total) and reports to the Grade 7 Head of Corporate Operations.

The post holder’s main duties will include:
Oversight and management of the briefing and correspondence functions for Detention & Escorting Services, including:

- Responsibility for the quality and timeliness of all ministerial and treat official correspondence, written responses and background notes for Parliamentary Questions, ensuring consistency and accuracy;
- Leading on drafting press lines, Q&A and providing advice to Ministers (submissions) for ad-hoc topics as required;
- Leading on the development of briefing packs for HASC, Home Office Orals and other Parliamentary or ad-hoc briefings;
- Being responsible for engagement within Corporate Operations and Operational Policy to ensure corporate briefing materials reflect changes and improvements in real-time;
- Empowering teams to develop valuable use of management information which highlights trends and enables strategic and business-wide links to be made;
- Engaging and managing relationships with key contacts and teams across IE, Asylum & Protection, Border Force, Policy teams and relevant stakeholders to ensure collaborati