About the job

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

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.

Directorate:  HMCTS Strategy, Analysis and Planning  

Team:          Data, Analysis & Insight

Job Title:      Data Management Lead

Pay Band:   G7

Post Type: Permanent (minimum 30 hours per week worked over 4 days)

Location:  National at any HMCTS site. Some travel is required to attend meetings.

Based on current ways of working, work location is likely to be a combination of working from home and from the office, dependent on business needs.

About Us 

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family courts and tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice.  We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and want to make a difference in people’s lives in delivering justice. If you’re interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.

Data, Analysis and Insight is responsible for acquiring, assuring, and managing performance data, using it to produce performance reports and dashboards, analysis, forecasts and models. We produce performance reports and dashboards for the HMCTS Board, performance packs for Jurisdictional Boards and Business Authorities along with comparison tools on specific issues like early guilty pleas. Our remit also includes delivering new MI products for services that are being reformed.

We lead on workload forecasting, HR modelling and managing resource models such as, those for judicial complementing and the Spending Review. We are responsible for sharing our data externally, working with MoJ to publish official statistics, managing Data Sharing Agreements with other Government departments, and providing access to academia.

HMCTS has invested in a cloud-based strategic data platform to transform the ways in which we work with data and enable us to add more value than ever to the organisation and the public. This platform is now technically complete, and we are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our team and help us exploit our new technology.

About You

This role will be based in our Data Management and Engineering unit, reporting to our Head of Data Management and Engineering. It is a pivotal role for HMCTS to ensure that we are holding, curating, and protecting our data to drive value for our organisation both now and into the future.

• You will lead HMCTS’s evolution of its approach to data management, helping us to become a best practice organisation and manage and lead a team of data management professionals to support development and maintenance of a modern data warehouse using Microsoft Azure technology.
• You will represent Analysis and Performance in the development of a strategic master and reference data management capability for HMCTS and become the business owner for the management of this data and support the design and implementation of new data dictionary and data cataloguing tools for HMCTS, becoming the product owner for these tools.

Application 

Please provide a CV giving details of your employment history and the role you have played in projects and a Statement of suitability outlining how you meet the criteria for the role as described in the essential and desirable criteria in the attached “Further Information” document. You will also need to complete the Leadership (level 4) behaviour statement.

If we receive a high volume of applications, we will sift in the first instance on the behaviour “Leadership”. If you meet the acceptable criteria for this we will then sift your CV and statement of suitability.

Please see the attached “Further Information” document for a full job description and the essential and desirable criteria for the role.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,358, HM Courts and Tribunals Service 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours 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

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

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.