About the job

Job summary

This is a National 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.

Senior Delivery Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 21st January 2024

Interviews: w/c 5th February 2024

Grade: 7

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

Salary: London: £58,847 - £66,670 (which may include an allowance of up to £4,828)

National: £54,358 - £61,585 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,517)

Working pattern: Full time/ Part time/ Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Senior Delivery Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Prisons area of Justice Digital. Digital Prisons are responsible for the design, delivery & support of digital services & software within our prisons estate. The things we build are used by prison staff, prisoners, their friends & family members, other government departments & the private sector.

We’re looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills who’ll enjoy working in a delivery focused, agile environment with multidisciplinary teams. You will contribute to our Agile Delivery community and share your skills and experiences with others across the MoJ, and wider government departments.

You’ll be an experienced senior delivery manager leading a multidisciplinary team, supporting and continuously improving products of significant scale and complexity. You’ll get support from your people manager, delivery manager peers, the wider delivery community and from formal learning opportunities to develop in this role.

Working as a senior delivery manager, you’ll be responsible for building, maintaining and motivating teams; protect the team and make sure the team collaborates to focus on what is most important. You’ll coach team members and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement in the team. You will proactively manage dependencies and risks to overcome obstacles to delivery.

You’ll be an active part of the broader delivery management community, receiving coaching and mentoring from your senior colleagues, and will also have the chance to participate in informal support networks with peers.

More information around what it is to be a senior delivery manager can be found here.

To learn more about being part of the delivery community in MoJ, please watch some of these recent videos from Lianne, Nic & Harry, or read a recent blog.

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:

• You’ll be responsible for building, maintaining and motivating teams; protecting the team and ensuring collaboration to focus on what is most important. You’ll coach team members and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement. You will proactively manage dependencies and risks to overcome obstacles to delivery.
• Build trust with Leaders, Stakeholders and Teams so as to encourage a culture of experimentation, advocating for lean and agile practices to create better outcomes
• Be a people advocate - you will help teams evolve their practices for optimal team health and performance. You will be skilled in assessing team health in the context of the systems they operate and in providing feedback, reflections or support
• As a people manager you’ll use your skills to support delivery management professionals and the wider delivery community in meeting its obligations.
• Be a community advocate and share your own learnings by contributing regularly to your profession through education, coaching and mentoring and taking part in informal support networks with peers. This may also require you to represent the community to larger audiences inside and outside of government.

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, GDS Academy, 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 26-30% depending on salary.
• 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:

• Agile and Lean Practices - coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team create or tailor new ways of working, and constantly innovate
• Communicating Between the Technical and Non-Technical - mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government
• Maintaining Delivery Momentum - optimise the delivery flow of teams actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists identify innovative ways to unblock issues
• Team Dynamics and Collaboration - identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick accelerate the team development cycle
• Planning - lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment plan beyond product delivery identify dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery coach other teams as the central point of expertise
• Leadership - promote diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity, respecting difference and external experience, coaching and mentoring delivery managers. As well as a proven background in leading digital and/or technology delivery and are passionate about delivering positive outcomes for our users.

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of 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.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way 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

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,358, Ministry of Justice 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

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and 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
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Leadership

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview, which may include a task,  held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your experience in working with agile and lean practice in digital or technology delivery will be conducted prior to the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for, but demonstrated the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and potentially offer you the position without the need for a further application.

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

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.