About the job

Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

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

Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?

Overview

We have 1 Data Improvement Manager role in the Data Improvement team, within the Data & Analysis Directorate. 

We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. These are based at the following JCCs: Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham, South Tyneside, Brighton, Ipswich and Liverpool, and the following JSOs: Ashford, Beverley, Haverfordwest, Hull, Merthyr Tydfil, Manchester, Newport, Birmingham, Sheffield, North Shields, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Weston-Super-Mare, Stafford, Truro, and Winchester.

Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks. 

Interviews are likely to take place in May 2024 and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post. 

The MOJ and HMMPS Data Improvement Team

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the exciting Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) Data Improvement Team.

This role is within a team leading on the transformation of decision-making at the MOJ and HMPPS. The MOJ is committed to improving justice outcomes for millions of people through data-driven insight and innovation, so we’re investing in essential work to ensure that data meets user needs and to build a culture that values data as a strategic asset. We are also leading work within the CJS to tackle shared problems with data and drive better strategic and operational decision-making. In this three-year improvement programme, we are looking at complex issues around sharing data between departments, data literacy, data quality and governance.

We work collaboratively with teams across Data and Analysis, Digital, MOJ and the wider Criminal Justice System – including digital teams, learning and development teams, data scientists and engineers etc. As part of a change programme, we are working at a fast pace and getting things done. We’re open about the work we’re doing and want to get feedback from our colleagues and are always looking for ways to iterate and improve.

If successful, you will join an established team of data professionals working across several important MOJ and HMPPS data transformation programmes. Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?  

Why work in Data and Analysis?
The Data Improvement Team sit within the Data and Analysis Directorate. In Data and Analysis, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff. 

What we offer

• Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity – including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office.
• Career development – regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.
• Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques – we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).
• Analysis is at the centre of the Department’s decision making – our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes. The Ministry of Justice’s Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven – your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact
• Vibrant community – part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.
• See the frontline and what your work is influencing – regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting. 

What you’ll do 

• Engage with Data and Digital teams to map their ways-of-working and governance structures to identify how enhanced interactions can arise.
• Develop, pilot and implement policies, procedures and guidance for enhanced ways-of-working between various teams.
• Track and record the risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies of pilots implemented to enhance ways-of-working.
• Design, institute and report on means of recording the outputs of pilots implemented to enhance ways-of-working.
• Represent the MOJ/HMPPS Data Improvement Team at various forums and groups to ensure our aims are appropriately represented.
• Work, depending on the needs of the HMPPS Data Improvement Team, with other Digital teams/in other thematic areas of HMPPS data improvement in the future.

Who you are 

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, ability to form and maintain strong relationships with people inside and outside of your immediate team.
• Strong communicator, who works collaboratively to build consensus in a fast-changing strategic and delivery environment.
• Demonstrated track record of managing complex and diverse stakeholder relationships.
• Is comfortable changing their approach to respond to emerging issues and risks, while maintaining a strong focus on overall strategic goals.
• Passionate about data and has a track record in working with data and data systems, understanding the value of high-quality data in enabling analysis that drives positive outcomes.
• Proactively manages their own priorities, taking a vision and making it reality.
• Spots opportunities outside of immediate work area to help improve data driven decision making .
• Possesses and confidently deploys project and portfolio management skills.

Essential criteria:  

• Experience with eliciting requirements from stakeholders and capturing user needs – especially from users of data or data systems.
• An ability to plan and prioritise competing work strands.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, both within and outside your immediate colleagues, particularly acting as a translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in Leading Knowledge and Information Management.
• Experience of supporting and influencing organisational behavioural and cultural change

Desirable criteria:

• Experience working in digital or agile teams and awareness of agile ways of working
• Experience in process/governance mapping.
• An ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

How to apply 

You’ll need to submit an anonymised CV and demonstrate how you meet the following behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Bigger Picture 

Your CV should be no more than 2 pages long and should show us your work history and previous experience. It should be well structured, succinct and written in clear language.    

Selection Process

Those who make it through the initial sift will be invited to a Civil Service Success Profile interview. In the Civil Service we use Success Profiles to help us find the right person for the job. We will be using a mixture of methods to assess your abilities, strengths, experience, technical skills and behaviours. We highly recommend learning about Success Profiles and using the Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection (STARR) framework when structuring your answers. 

The highest scoring candidates that pass the interview will be offered the roles. The whole process can take up to a month. 

Behaviours

You will be assessed against the Civil service success profiles framework and strengths at interview stage: 

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving 
• Working Together 

Please note that strengths are not disclosed in advance of the interview.

Please also refer to the CS Behaviours framework for more details at this grade. 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf  

Further Information
If you require any additional information about the role, please contact: Art Mitchells-Urwin, Data Improvement Lead, art.mitchells-urwin@justice.gov.uk

Person specification

Please refer to job description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,868, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,804 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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

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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.