About the job

Job summary

This position is National

Job description

Benefits Lead

Location: National*

Closing Date: Sunday 14th July

Interviews: w/c 29th July

Grade: G7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £58,847- £66,670. National: £54,358- £61,585.

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working.

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 88436

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Benefits Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Technology Services team.

We’re looking for a talented and tenacious Benefit Lead to support Technology Services in delivering quality Business Cases and Benefits (Financial and Non Financial, including modelling) for upcoming portfolio activities including contract ends and other large-scale Projects. We need skilled resources to help us produce strong business cases and articulate existing and future benefits including the use of financial modelling of strategic options.

With colleagues based across the UK, we recognise the importance of producing clear strategies, frameworks and standards to keep our MoJ stakeholders informed and engaged in this portfolio’s aims.

Background

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is one of the largest UK government departments, employing over 70,000 people, with a budget of approximately £8 billion.  Each year millions of people use our services across the UK, including courts, tribunals and prisons in England and Wales.

The MoJ are coming to the end of large technology contracts with suppliers who provide End User Computer Services and Network Infrastructure Services. Evolve is a portfolio of eleven projects working to define and implement a future oriented technology strategy and operating model for the MoJ, including multiple contract re-tenders, new contract awards, building internal capability, in-sourcing key services and new ways of working.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the organisations portfolio Benefits Management Strategy and Framework, setting the standards for Benefit Management.
• Ensure an effective set of metrics and processes are in place to successfully identify, track and realise benefits.
• Maintain the portfolio-level Benefits forecast with awareness and foresight of any deviations.
• Promote more effective Benefits Management practices and provide advice and support to areas of the business including BAU.
• Facilitate Benefit-mapping workshops, ensuring the appropriate benefits are identified, quantified and their realisation planned.
• Quality checking of benefits to ensure benefits are measurable and evidenced.
• Monitor the handover of benefits, particularly when transferring to BAU or outside of the portfolio or business,
• Undertake financial analysis of benefits options with a view to proving the case for strategy and/or delivery.
• Review of risks to ensure no dis-benefits are being recorded as risks incorrectly.
• Assess the costs and benefits of each strategy to make sure it is value for money.  
• Initiate benefit reviews and provide advice on the best benefits structure.
• Oversee analytics and reporting on benefits. 
• Manage and maintain the performance dashboards and metrics, their timely completion, validation, submission, tracking and reporting in line with expected timescales.
• Foster and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders, with accountability for supporting the development of business cases, and increasing organisational awareness of benefit tools. 
• Deliver Introduction to Benefit Management awareness sessions to the portfolio.
• Be responsible for supporting the development and production of particularly complex and/or high value business cases, preparing and presenting cost-benefit analyses to support business case development and the implementation of initiatives where required
• Ensure business case benefits are concise and clearly written with the audience in mind, ensuring technical information is translated into plain language and the financial and commercial aspects of the project are clearly and concisely justified.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

 Person Specification

Essential

• Experience in benefit management.
• Analytical Skills: You have the ability to think strategically and translate strategy and plans into robust business cases and benefits. You also have significant knowledge and experience in performance measurement and reporting
• Delivery focus: You have a natural ability to deliver quality services to end users. You are an expert planner, able to identify and manage dependencies and have strong experience in delivering complex deployments whilst not impacting live service 
• Problem ownership: You take a problem statement and can work with a multidisciplinary team to validate the problem, refining it and narrowing its focus until it becomes feasible and valuable to solve. You understand how problems fit in the larger context of the portfolio, and build the problem-solving capabilities of others. 
• Communication: You have strong communication, networking and influencing skills and have operated at a senior level
• User focus: You understand users (who they are, what their needs are, how they behave and how they change over time) and deliver products and services that meet these needs. You can prioritise users’ most pressing needs, and are able to coach other Managers to do the same. 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,358, Ministry of Justice contributes £15,165 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Communicating & Influencing
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference and will be asked to present on a topic shared one week before the interview.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on ‘Experience of benefit management’ will be conducted before the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.