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.

Role: Senior Delivery Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 11th February

Interviews: from 21st February

Grade: G7

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

Salary: London £55,720 - £64,135 which may include an allowance up to £4,280 National £51,767 - £59,590 which may include an allowance up to £3,433

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible Working, Job Share

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 83912

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

Here in Justice Digital work is well underway towards meeting the actions laid out in the greening government commitments (GGCs) which set out the actions UK government departments and their agencies will take to reduce their impacts on the environment in the period 2021 to 2025.

They set out targets for UK government departments and their agencies to:

• reduce water consumption
• reduce their greenhouse gas emissions
• minimise waste and promote resource efficiency

They also set out commitments for departments to:

• improve sustainable procurement
• develop and deliver nature recovery plans
• develop and deliver climate change adaptation strategies
• reduce environmental impacts from ICT and digital services

Do you want to be part of the team making this vision a reality? If so, we are looking for an experienced individual who can transform their passion for tackling climate change into practical action that changes how Justice Digital and the wider department of MoJ works, and which leads and inspires suppliers and partners to do the same.

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:

High-level strategic delivery would include contributing to the following objectives:

• Co-creating a Digital and Technology Sustainable Action Plan between the Digital and Sustainability teams
• Greening Government ICT & Digital Services Strategy – Implementation of the strategy in the MoJ
• Greening Government Commitments – report on the MoJ’s implementation of the Greening Government ICT & Digital Services Strategy and targets
• Annual STAR reporting and representing the MoJ at the STAR Community of Interest
• Reporting to the Senior Sustainability Board on progress in this area

Developing and revising Policy and Guidance relating to sustainability and MoJ’s Digital systems

• Leading the development of social and environmental sustainability criteria and providing specialist input to support the Justice system to make sustainable digital choices to support the Net Zero agenda
• Proactively engage with other teams and provide specialist advice to ensure that sustainability is factored into decisions about architecture, platforms, standards and technology
• Developing sustainability metrics and KPIs, having responsibility for ensuring delivery against these and that mechanisms are in place to track and report on delivery

Building strong relationships

• Ensure that digital is factored in as an enabler across the Net Zero agenda by building strong working relationships with other teams across the organisation
• Building strong working relationships with digital transformation teams, cross-government working groups and suppliers (where appropriate) to ensure alignment of MoJ sustainability goals

Data Management and Analysis

• Establish methods for the measurement and quantification of the environmental impact of digital technologies, including accounting for the embodied carbon, Water Usage Efficiency (WUE)and Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) of data centres
• Collating, interpreting and analysing data from across the organisation relevant to STAR and GGC reporting requirements
• Establish methods for the measurement and quantification of the carbon impact of digital technologies

Strategy and Reporting

• Reporting on progress against carbon reduction targets to the Senior Sustainability Board, as required.
• Developing a long-term Net Zero digital strategy by building the evidence base for sustainable service design and supporting alignment with cross-government initiatives
• Baselining and identifying priorities for carbon reduction, and ensuring progress are made on early carbon reduction areas, for example, Cloud storage, digitising of paper processes, sustainable procurement, and recycling of devices.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential

• You will be delivery-focused, and have experience in managing complex projects and delivering on time and to budget.
• You will have experience in contract management and will have dealt with external contractors and partnership organisations.
• You will have experience in managing complex data and ensuring that best practice is followed
• You will have Team management experience leading and developing a small delivery team.
• You will be able to communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way to build trust. You will explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand. Be able to provide updates for senior stakeholders and adept at explaining complex issues to a non-technical audience.
• You will ensure everyone clearly understands and owns their roles, responsibilities and priorities, ensuring timely quality outcomes are delivered.

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.

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 King’s 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 Careers & 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.

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 both a CV and a Personal statement (Approximately 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification and should describe how you meet the following three requirements from the Person Specification:

• You will be delivery-focused, and have experience in managing complex projects and delivering on time and to budget.
• You will have experience in contract management and will have dealt with external contractors and partnership organisations.
• You will have experience in managing complex data and ensuring that best practice is followed.

Please note - applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.

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, and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working together
• Delivering at pace

You will also be required to develop and deliver a presentation on a topic which will be provided if you are successfully sifted through to interview.

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 held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the following criteria will be conducted before the sift:

• You will be delivery-focused, and have experience in managing complex projects and delivering on time and to budget.

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

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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.