diff --git a/krkn/scenario_plugins/managed_cluster/manifestwork.j2 b/krkn/scenario_plugins/managed_cluster/manifestwork.j2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1b27866
--- /dev/null
+++ b/krkn/scenario_plugins/managed_cluster/manifestwork.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+apiVersion: work.open-cluster-management.io/v1
+kind: ManifestWork
+metadata:
+  namespace: {{managedcluster_name}}
+  name: managedcluster-scenarios-template
+spec:
+  workload:
+    manifests:
+      - apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+        kind: ClusterRole
+        metadata:
+          name: scale-deploy
+        rules:
+        - apiGroups: ["apps"]
+          resources: ["deployments/scale"]
+          verbs: ["patch"]
+        - apiGroups: ["apps"]
+          resources: ["deployments"]
+          verbs: ["get"]
+      - apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+        kind: RoleBinding
+        metadata:
+          name: scale-deploy-to-sa
+          namespace: open-cluster-management
+        subjects:
+          - kind: ServiceAccount
+            name: internal-kubectl
+            namespace: open-cluster-management
+        roleRef:
+          kind: ClusterRole
+          name: scale-deploy
+          apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
+      - apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+        kind: RoleBinding
+        metadata:
+          name: scale-deploy-to-sa
+          namespace: open-cluster-management-agent
+        subjects:
+          - kind: ServiceAccount
+            name: internal-kubectl
+            namespace: open-cluster-management
+        roleRef:
+          kind: ClusterRole
+          name: scale-deploy
+          apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
+      - apiVersion: v1
+        kind: ServiceAccount
+        metadata:
+          name: internal-kubectl
+          namespace: open-cluster-management
+      - apiVersion: batch/v1
+        kind: Job
+        metadata:
+          name: managedcluster-scenarios-template
+          namespace: open-cluster-management
+        spec:
+          template:
+            spec:
+              serviceAccountName: internal-kubectl
+              containers:
+              - name: kubectl
+                image: quay.io/sighup/kubectl-kustomize:1.21.6_3.9.1
+                command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
+                args:
+                  - {{args}}
+              restartPolicy: Never
+          backoffLimit: 0
diff --git a/tests/test_managed_cluster_scenario_plugin.py b/tests/test_managed_cluster_scenario_plugin.py
index 2f5a5d25..424e868a 100644
--- a/tests/test_managed_cluster_scenario_plugin.py
+++ b/tests/test_managed_cluster_scenario_plugin.py
@@ -404,5 +404,72 @@ class TestCommonFunctions(unittest.TestCase):
         )
 
 
+class TestManifestWorkTemplate(unittest.TestCase):
+    """
+    Test suite for the manifestwork template used by the managed cluster scenarios
+    """
+
+    def test_template_file_exists(self):
+        """
+        Test the manifestwork template file is present in the plugin directory
+        """
+        import os
+
+        template_path = os.path.join(
+            os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))),
+            "krkn",
+            "scenario_plugins",
+            "managed_cluster",
+            "manifestwork.j2",
+        )
+        self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(template_path))
+
+    def test_template_renders_valid_manifestwork(self):
+        """
+        Test the template renders into a valid ManifestWork document with
+        the variables the scenarios pass in, including multiline args
+        """
+        import os
+
+        import yaml
+        from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
+
+        template_dir = os.path.join(
+            os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))),
+            "krkn",
+            "scenario_plugins",
+            "managed_cluster",
+        )
+        env = Environment(
+            loader=FileSystemLoader(os.path.abspath(template_dir)),
+            autoescape=False,
+        )
+        template = env.get_template("manifestwork.j2")
+        body = yaml.safe_load(
+            template.render(
+                managedcluster_name="test-cluster",
+                args="""kubectl scale deployment.apps/klusterlet --replicas 3 &&
+                                kubectl scale deployment.apps/klusterlet-registration-agent --replicas 0 -n open-cluster-management-agent""",
+            )
+        )
+
+        self.assertEqual(body["kind"], "ManifestWork")
+        self.assertEqual(body["metadata"]["namespace"], "test-cluster")
+        self.assertEqual(body["apiVersion"], "work.open-cluster-management.io/v1")
+        manifests = body["spec"]["workload"]["manifests"]
+        self.assertEqual(len(manifests), 5)
+        cluster_role = manifests[0]
+        self.assertEqual(cluster_role["kind"], "ClusterRole")
+        self.assertNotIn("namespace", cluster_role["metadata"])
+        job = manifests[4]
+        self.assertEqual(job["kind"], "Job")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            job["spec"]["template"]["spec"]["containers"][0]["args"][0],
+            "kubectl scale deployment.apps/klusterlet --replicas 3 && "
+            "kubectl scale deployment.apps/klusterlet-registration-agent "
+            "--replicas 0 -n open-cluster-management-agent",
+        )
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()