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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.

Judicial Appointments Commission - Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO)

Are you passionate about building strong and collaborative stakeholder relationships? Is delivering impactful and inspiring remote events your forte? Do you want to contribute to supporting the creation of a judiciary that better represents the society it serves? If the answer is yes, you could be exactly who we are seeking.

The Role

We’re looking for a Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO) to help us reach and connect with our target audiences. As an independent public body, the Judicial Appointments Commission is responsible for designing, planning, and running recruitment campaigns to select judges in the courts and tribunals, up to and including the High Court, as well as non-legal tribunal members. You can read more about our work on our website: http://judicialappointments.gov.uk

With a new recruitment campaign launched every couple of weeks, and statutory responsibilities to make sure we select candidates on merit and through fair and open competition, it’s essential that our processes are robust, inclusive, and attractive to candidates from the widest possible backgrounds. It’s also essential that our audiences and stakeholders understand our work and our commitment to supporting the creation of a more diverse judiciary. Our Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager plays a vital role in helping us to achieve that ambition. 

As part of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach and Research (TOR) team, who have responsibility for supporting judicial applicants from underrepresented groups, the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager will lead key projects aimed at improving judicial diversity. They will play a central role in coordinating our engagement with our target audiences, managing our rolling stakeholder events calendar, and leading on the design, delivery, and evaluation of remote outreach events. 

The successful applicant will lead promotion of our initiatives across a range of partners and stakeholders to encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to consider applying for judicial appointment. The role will also play an important part in supporting the Targeted Outreach Team’s Judicial Guide Scheme – which matches experienced judges with candidates from diverse backgrounds during their application journey. 

You can read more about the work of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach Team here: Targeted Outreach and Research Team – Judicial Appointments Commission.
This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys working in a small but dynamic team, collaborating with colleagues who are passionate about the JAC’s mission. 

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager of the Targeted Outreach and Research team, your main responsibilities will be to:

•    Lead stakeholder interaction for the Targeted Outreach team by developing a programme of rolling outreach and engagement activities that links to the judicial recruitment programme and TOR initiatives. 
•    Ensure stakeholders are kept appropriately informed on the teams work and able to constructively contribute their perspective and specialist input. 
•    Maintain and implement a stakeholder strategy and action plan to direct engagement of existing and emerging stakeholders. Ensure team activities align with JAC diversity strategy and complement outreach and engagement work undertaken elsewhere in the JAC and wider MoJ. 
•    Oversee liaison with external stakeholders to arrange TOR team attendance at remote outreach events, draft content for outreach briefings, prepare materials for use at outreach events and deliver presentations. 
•    Develop, implement, and evaluate audience feedback tools and data, to support and enhance outreach with user led insights. 
•    Work with partners in the legal professions, Judicial Office and JAC to support a coordinated approach to candidate development programmes and other diversity initiatives, including development of new resources for potential candidates to familiarise themselves with the selection process. 
•    Support new strands of research focussed on the Commission’s emerging priorities around neurodiverse candidates and better understanding barriers for black candidates. 
•    Collaborate and coordinate with stakeholders to develop and engage existing and new candidate pools, prioritising underrepresented and harder to reach groups. 
•    Work with the Director of Training for the TOR Judicial Guide Scheme to deliver, evaluate and expand the training offer for volunteer judges. 
•    Manage and update corresponding stakeholder engagement tools and databases. 
•    Work with statisticians to support the monitoring of progress of Targeted Outreach participants through the JAC selection process. 

We are a small team who work collaboratively, and the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager may need to get involved in other projects and work beyond what is listed above to support the wider TOR team (and wider organisation).

Essential Criteria

•    Experience of delivering informative events, sessions, or workshops for varied audiences. 
•    Excellent IT proficiency, including experience utilising video conferencing platforms to deliver remote events and garner feedback.
•    Experience of engaging and communicating confidently with senior staff and stakeholders, building constructive relationships with a variety of internal and external partners and other stakeholders 
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to confidently present to public audiences.
•    Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
•    Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects with varied deadlines.
•    Strong team working skills and ability to work flexibly to support a small team. 
•    Strong IT and digital skills, including the ability to quickly learn to use unfamiliar software to a good standard, with appropriate training.

Desirable criteria 

•    Experience of working with the judiciary. 
•    Experience of diversity monitoring data collection and analysis. 

What we can offer you

We offer a range of benefits including an attractive annual leave allowance, flexible and hybrid working opportunities, and choice of pension schemes. We actively encourage all staff to undertake learning and development as part of their personal objectives. 

While the JAC is an independent executive non-departmental public body, we are considered an arms-length body of the Ministry of Justice and share many of the same policies, processes and terms and conditions as Civil Servants employed directly by the MoJ. This includes being part of the MoJ pay remit, enabling transferees from other government departments to retain their continuity of service and Civil Service Pension arrangements. 

Though located at Clive House, Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ JAC staff are currently working in a hybrid way with some days in the office and some days working remotely. It will be necessary for the successful postholder to work at the JAC location regularly to support business need.

Recruitment Process

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the recruitment process: 

Communicating and Influencing 
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Application process 

•    Your CV 
•    A statement of suitability detailing the relevant experience and skills you have that would make you suitable for the post (500 words max). 
•    Written evidence of the 2 core behaviours for this role: Communicating and Influencing and Working Together (250 words per behaviour)

Sift 

Applications will be sifted based on the CV, Statement of Suitability and the 2 behaviours: Communicating and Influencing and Working Together. 

Interview 

At interview you we will assess you against 3 behaviours: Communicating and influencing, Working Together, and Delivering at Pace. You will also be asked about your experience. You can find out more about the Civil Service success profiles here. 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
Applicants invited for interview may be required to undertake a brief presentation on the day as part of the selection process. More details will be provided if you are invited to interview.
Interviews are expected to take place from late April/ early May 2024. 
Interviews may be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. More details on the arrangements will be provided to candidates invited to interview. 

Reserve List

As well as appointing to the vacancy listed above, we may place other candidates on a 12-month reserve list for future vacancies.

Further Information

If after reading this job description you require any further information, please contact Nikita Sharma, Head of Targeted Outreach and Research, at Nikita.Sharma@judicialappointments.gov.uk 

If you have any questions about the recruitment campaign, or any terms and conditions relating to the role, please contact the JAC Recruitment Team: 
Recruitment@judicialappointments.gov

Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,174, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,074 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

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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.