Delivery Manager (Ref: 17896)

Job summary

This position is based nationally.

Job description

Delivery Manager
Location: National
Grade: SEO

The Delivery Manager role sits within the MoJ Information Security Team (MIST), supporting the Security Assurance Team (SAT) in the coordination and delivery of key security assurance activities across the Ministry of Justice. SAT provides central oversight of assurance processes including GovAssure, supplier assurance, application assurance, incident response coordination, and continuous improvement of assurance practices.

Delivery Managers help structure and maintain the flow of work across these assurance areas, ensuring effective engagement between Security, service teams, suppliers, and wider MoJ stakeholders. They play a vital role in keeping assurance workstreams organised, removing blockers, managing dependencies, and supporting consistent and high‑quality delivery.

This role is ideal for someone with delivery or delivery‑support experience who is keen to apply those skills in a security and risk environment, working at the heart of a team that shapes assurance activity across the department.

A Delivery Manager in SAT will:

Support coordination of assurance activities, including GovAssure, supplier assurance reviews, application assurance workflows, and incident response follow‑up actions.

Help manage the flow of work across multiple assurance streams, ensuring progress is clear, dependencies are tracked, and teams are supported to deliver on time.

Use Agile and Lean delivery practices to structure assurance processes and improve predictability and transparency.

Maintain and updates assurance artefacts, such as CAF trackers, supplier assurance templates, application assurance logs, and incident response action registers.

Facilitate cross‑team communication, ensuring service teams, suppliers, technical colleagues, and security practitioners understand expectations and next steps.

Remove blockers to progress, including delays in evidence gathering, access to documentation, or engagement with service teams or suppliers.

Support the continuous improvement of assurance processes, contributing to refinement of templates, checklists, guidance materials, and working practices.

Help coordinate activity arising from security incidents, including tracking actions, organising wash‑ups, and ensuring follow‑on assurance tasks are captured and completed.

Work independently or alongside senior delivery managers, depending on the scale of the assurance activity or the number of stakeholders involved.

Occasionally may support engagement with suppliers or MoJ delivery teams, which may involve attendance at MoJ offices or online workshops.

To be effective in this role, individuals are expected to have experience or knowledge in:

• Experience supporting delivery or coordination activities, within digital, technology, risk or assurance environments.
• Experience maintaining structured trackers or dashboards across multi‑stakeholder environments.
• Understanding of technology services and how they interact with assurance processes such as supplier assessments, application assurance or incident response.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including suppliers and service owners.
• Ability to manage risks, actions and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation and clear tracking.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean practices, and willingness to develop these within an assurance context.
• Understanding the importance of collaborative working, team dynamics and continuous improvement.

Desirable

• Awareness of GovAssure, CAF, and other security assurance frameworks.
• Experience supporting assurance, governance or audit‑related processes.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

Person specification

Please refer to the Job Description

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,914, Ministry of Justice contributes £12,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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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

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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.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5359

Recruitment team

• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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