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.

Project Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 12 March 2024

Interviews: From 26 March 2024

Grade: SEO

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

Salary: London: £45,824 - £50,039; National: £39,868- £43,535

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 84794

*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 Project Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Justice Digital Project Delivery team.

Project Managers ensure teams have the right environment to deliver the vision, products and services, iteratively, and ensure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important.

They work at the heart of teams to provide direction within a project, service or programme. They are accountable for building, motivating, supporting and facilitating teams as well as removing obstacles and blockers that get in their way.

They challenge approaches inside and outside of the team they are working with and facilitate a focus on the outcome. They are responsible for working proactively, effectively and collaboratively with a number of external supplier organisations

Project Managers proactively develop and manage sometimes complex plans and risks, they build and proactively manage significant project budgets, identify and manage project dependencies and priorities, and get the best value against constraints.  They assess and evaluate the business readiness for change managing all aspects of the governance of projects ensuring continued integrity and coherence is maintained.Our team is part of a wider and growing network of project professionals across Government, working together to build Project Management capability critical to government’s modernisation and reform plans.

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:

• Takes responsibility for the definition, documentation, planning and safe execution of a single project or a number of smaller initiatives, actively participating in all phases of the project, Identifying, assessing and managing risks to the success of the project.
• Waterfall, Agile and Lean Practices - Identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use. Ability to recognise when something does not work and encourages a mind-set of experimentation. Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Ability to use a blended approach depending on the context and measure and evaluate outcomes. Help teams to manage and visualise outcomes.
• Communicate between the technical and non-technical - Listen to the needs of the technical and business stakeholders and interpret between them.
• Manage stakeholders’ expectations and be flexible, is capable of proactive and reactive communication. Facilitates difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
• Maintaining delivery momentum - Facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo, actively addressing internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team.
• Making the process work - Ability to identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. Adds value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. Guides teams and the business through the implementation of a new process.
• Planning - Understands the environment and can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. Uses data to inform planning and manages internal and external dependencies. Can remove blockers or impediments and develops a plan for difficult situations. Ensures teams plan appropriately for their own capacity.
• Team dynamics and collaboration - Ability to bring people together to form a motivated team, empowering delivery teams and creates the right environment for teamwork. Recognises and deals with issues and facilitates the best team makeup depending on situations.
• Commercial management - Acts as the point of contact for contracted suppliers and understands appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department including how and when third parties are brought into Digital Data and Technology (DDat) projects.
• Financial management - Balance cost versus value with ability to consider the impact of user needs. Reports on financial delivery and monitors cost and budget and escalates any issues.
• Business Cases – Manage government Business Cases with input from specialists. Manage and deliver the Business Case processes including through to delivery of an appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy.
• Governance & Assurance – develop, support and manage appropriate governance, assurance and decision making at all points through a project.
• Lifecycle perspective - Recognises when to move from one stage of a project lifecycle to another. Ensures the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase. Manages the delivery projects or services at different phases.

 This post may occasionally require travel to other sites.

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.
• We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning etc.
• 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
• 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.
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
• 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

• You’ll take ownership of problems and show initiative in aligning the necessary resources to bring about a successful outcome for the business demonstrate a passion for digital and technology and understand how it can be used to enable new ways of working, increase efficiencies and productivity and reduce costs.
• You’ll have the ability to visualise, articulate and solve problems and make disciplined decisions based on available information, by applying logical thinking, information analysis and the use of comprehensive tools and techniques, formulating day-to-day and long-term strategic plans.
• You’ll have an overall perspective on business issues, events, activities and an understanding of their wider implications, including determining patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
• You’ll understand user needs, based upon evidence. You’ll engage in meaningful interactions and relationships to translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs.
• You’ll have strong planning and reporting skills with experience on Microsoft Project and preparing reporting papers for presentation.
• You’ll have a good understanding of working in diverse business/operational environments, and be able to demonstrate examples of activities, structures, and team, organisation or departments for which services are provided.
• Experience working in digital, waterfall and hybrid methodologies - Ability to recognise and influence the correct methodologies for delivery.
• Experience of working to relevant Project Management certification or equivalent levels and experience of using recognised methodologies and tools to develop and deliver technology projects and maintaining financial controls.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

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

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and may also submit an optional 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, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Working Together

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.

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. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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.