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.

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Security Policy Technical Writer to be part of the warm and collaborative Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Security Policy, Awareness, Culture and Education (SPACE) team.

This role focuses on developing and maintaining security policy and guidance information. The goal is to enable and advance a healthy security culture across the MoJ.

You'll work with staff who help deliver and enhance the security of a wide range of essential Justice services. You'll engage with stakeholders and information users at all levels in the MoJ. You'll use these insights to develop and support information resources in a variety of media formats. You'll help improve security compliance and outcomes.

The ways you help MoJ colleagues to understand and practice good security in their work drive your success indicators. Your deliverables will include formal (but readable!) policy, easy-to-follow guidance, and informal posters, briefing notes and similar lighter material. The content will reflect current and forthcoming MoJ and Government security requirements.

You'll produce information showing quantitative and qualitative measures and improvements. You'll share information, processes, and improvements across the MoJ and outside.

Key Responsibilities 

· Help develop and maintain the MoJ Security Policy and Guidance portfolio
· Help build the MoJ reputation for quality security information and best practices.
· Deliver valuable and valued security information for internal and external channels. This includes appropriate social media and direct messages.
· Use agile methodologies to progress and deliver security information.
· Help maintain and optimise the security policy content build environment and processes.
· Work with corporate communication colleagues to include security messages in MoJ information.
· Check and help action the team inbox and direct message channels.
· Live the MoJ values and behaviours.
· Build understanding of the security strategy across the team, the department, and the wider MoJ. Enable compliance with cross-government requirements.
· Support the security team in engaging with stakeholders. Help establish a clear understanding of security policy and requirements.
· Help test the effectiveness of security information processes, and deliver ongoing improvement.
· Understand and apply content development techniques to support all accessibility requirements.

Does this feel like an exciting challenge? Is it something you are enthusiastic about? Would you like to join our team? Read on and apply!

This is an SEO role with a salary of £39,868 - £43,535, London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location plus great benefits:

· 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home/remote working, 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: 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 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 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.

Person Specification

Essential

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, particularly drafting, presenting and facilitation skills.
· Experience of project work and delivery using GitHub and DITA. (In other words, XML-based ContentOps workflow.)
· Experience of content single-source and re-use processes and best practices.
· Effective communication engaging with a wide range of audiences.
· Collaboration across teams, functions and organisations.

Desirable

· Experience developing and applying information taxonomies.
· Experience building content for multi-platform delivery.
· Experience of project work and delivery using Markdown, and Jekyll static site generation.
· Experience building campaigns to support key deliverables.
· An industry-recognised security certification.
· Use of analytics and engagement data and feedback results to measure effectiveness of content, and drive development.

Applicant profile

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 about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and a letter of suitability containing no more than 1500 words which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

We recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

· Changing and Improving
· Communicating and Influencing
· Working Together
· Leadership
· Seeing the Bigger Picture

Your application will be reviewed and sifted 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 previous advocacy successes in technology domains will be conducted prior to the sift.

Further Information Please review the following Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role.

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

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. 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.