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Looking to move roles but not leaving the Mitie family?

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Role : Contract Director Immigration and Justice

Location: C&C IRC - Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre Kidlington Oxfordshire OX5 1GN

Job Overview
Are you a strong leader with experience overseeing service delivery? Have you managed the execution of projects and ensured all contractual obligations are met efficiently and effectively? Do you have a proven ability to manage budgets, lead teams, and build lasting relationships with clients to achieve operational excellence in a detention, custodial, policing environment? If yes this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

Lead, coordinate, and manage multiple units within the department, ensuring resources—whether personnel, financial, or assets—are optimised to meet strategic objectives and standards.
Develop policies and plans, implementing strategies that align with business goals and deliver key performance targets.
Conduct regular strategic reviews to ensure contract deliverables are aligned with client expectations, business strategies, and regulatory requirements.
Manage planning and budgeting processes, ensuring accuracy in financial forecasts, resource allocation, and timeline adherence.
Establish best practices for resource management, personnel development, and continuous process improvements.
Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, fostering long-term partnerships through effective communication.
Monitor operational performance, manage financial forecasts, work-in-progress, and debt levels, and identify initiatives to enhance efficiency and service delivery.

Candidate Profile

Proven leadership experience within detention, custodial, policing, or similar environments at a director level.
Experience managing large teams (typically 200+ staff), including Heads of Function, with a focus on performance and development.
Strong commercial awareness and a clear understanding of contractual compliance.
Demonstrable experience in budget management, particularly relating to operational staffing costs.
Level 6 qualification such as a Degree Apprenticeship, Bachelor's Degree (BA/BSc), or equivalent professional qualification.
Please note that all employment offers are subject to security clearance and thorough background checks, including verification of citizenship status, financial history, and criminal records.

Eligibility Criteria

Must be a British citizen, EU citizen with settled status, or hold Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) from a Commonwealth country.
Resided in the UK for at least the past three years, with limited travel outside the UK.
No significant criminal record, bankruptcy history, or adverse social media activity.

Our market-leading benefits package is designed to support your lifestyle and professional growth.

Join us in creating better places and thriving communities.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.