About the job

Job summary

The justice system is an essential public service, relied upon by millions of victims, families, and businesses across our country. At the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), we are privileged to be part of a team of nearly 90,000 people, all working towards the goal of protecting and advancing the principles of justice in the UK.

MoJ combines a wide range and scale of operational, policy and major programme delivery challenges, and there has never been a more important time to join the team. As a leader in your field, you will be contributing directly to Government’s top priorities of public protection, reducing reoffending and providing swift access to justice.

Creating the new Business Architecture Division is an exciting opportunity to prepare MoJ for the political and financial challenges ahead and drive forward an agenda that looks beyond. With an upcoming Spending Review and General Election, the new Deputy Director will support and work with the MoJ leadership team to advise ExCo on the people, skills, capability, resilience and infrastructure needed to put us in the best possible place to deliver for current and future Governments.

This role becomes the third part of the strategic triangle alongside Strategy and Innovation and Strategic Finance, to ensure we have a future workforce and wider architecture that is flexible and responsive in a challenging, ever-changing political landscape, and meets the needs of the business and where we secure a place in a world of new technology and new societal expectations.

This is a Nationally based role.

Job description

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack.

Person specification

• Develop an organisational strategy, underpinned by business architecture principles, that enables ExCo to provide strategic direction and leadership for transformation of the department’s future capability and infrastructure. 

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the core business, the capability, processes and ways of working of the Department in order to monitor the change and development as directed by ExCo and SLG. 

• Create a business architecture toolkit and bring together a focus on business architecture as a ‘profession’ to best enable change for the whole of the MoJ. 

• Alongside the Deputy Director for Functional Reform, interface into cross department projects and programmes that define a departmental operating model. 

• Take an active lead in and contribute at a senior level in the preparation, delivery and implementation of fiscal and political events for the MoJ through the lens of people, infrastructure and capability. 

• Build relationships and work collaboratively with senior stakeholders inside and outside of the organisation to influence and drive the agenda across the department, including our wider periphery workforces in our ALBs, public servants and volunteers. 

• As the organisational strategy is developed, work alongside colleagues in policy and analysis teams to ensure decisions taken about the future policies of the department align with and further the delivery of that strategy. 

• Build wider partnerships at a senior level and strengthen collaborative networks to encourage a culture of engagement and co-production in the Directorate and wider COO Group, working with colleagues across the COO leadership community to deliver shared outcomes and build collective solutions. 

• Harness the talents of others to secure high levels of engagement and create an environment where individuals are enthused, ambitious to succeed and happy in their work. 

• Demonstrate and encourage leadership behaviour that is consistent with the values of the organisation (Purpose, Humanity, Openness and Together).

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

Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £20,925 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

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

Security

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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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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.