Strategic Priorities Manager (Ref: 13458)

Job summary

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Job description

Strategic Priorities Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 22nd January 2026

Interviews: w/c 2nd February 2026

Grade: SEO

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

Salary: London: £49,325 - £53,081

National: £42,914 - £46,182

Working pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 13458

*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 up to two Strategic Priorities Managers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital & Data Enabling Services Team, part of the CDIO Group.

The Strategic Priorities Team supports the smooth and effective running of the Justice Digital function; it is an opportunity to work at the most senior levels of the function and influence the way in which the function operates, as well as to build a broader understanding of the MoJ as a whole.

This is a varied role that requires an awareness of, and interest in, both the strategy and ways of working of Justice Digital, the Service Delivery Transformation Group, and the Ministry more broadly. It has a wide remit that requires effective management and co-ordination, quick thinking, and the ability to facilitate and persuade. You will face tight deadlines for work and will need to manage your time effectively.

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:

The Strategic Priorities Manager will deal with information requests and commissions from the Director General’s office as well as other internal and external sources. You will be responsible for prioritising incoming requests, collating the relevant information and drafting the response, all within a demanding timeline and from varied sources across Justice Digital. You will also be responsible for supporting the Strategic Priorities Lead on private office functions and organising SLT events. More specifically this means:

• Manage key relationships with MoJ and external stakeholders:

• Making sure the Strategic Priorities Lead and Head of Strategic Priorities know what executive boards and senior meetings are happening, supporting with the organisation and preparation for these events.

• Work closely with Business Managers and Chiefs of Staff to ensure that the Directors have access to the right information at the right time.

• Be credible across departments.

• Be responsive to change and manage time effectively.

• Be a proactive member in a team which ensures the SLT is focussed on the right things:

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of the SCS cadre in Justice Digital.

• Maintain a forward plan of corporate, delivery and operational activities to inform SLT agendas.

• Support in ensuring that all recurring SLT events are sent in good time and have the correct attendees.

• Support in the organisation of SLT events and on delivery of these with the team, leading on this where appropriate.

• Contribute to the building of agendas for SLT meetings to ensure they are discussing the right things at the right time, leading on this where appropriate

• Maintain the plan for, and record of, the right information for SLT sessions to enable data-led decision-making.

• Be a proactive member of the Strategic Priorities Team in information requests and commissions

• Build productive and collaborative relationships with the Director General’s Private Office.

• Maintain the process for responding to information requests and commissions, ensuring that all have been responded to in time, and have been cleared by the appropriate people.

• Prepare templates and introduce changes to improve the process for information handling.

• Collate the information for responding to the requests from varying sources across Justice Digital.

• Draft responses using the correct templates.

• Support the team in the demanding and fast-paced environment of information handling and commissions.

• Be proactive in continuously reflecting and adopting new innovative ways of working.

• Manage any conflict that arises.

• Manage a continual planning process in a complex and fast-paced environment.

• Respond to change effectively.

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.

• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms

• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow

• 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.

• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

• You can shift context across a wide range of subject matters and manage a wide range of issues with diplomacy and discretion.

• You can build relationships and trust easily with people at various levels of an organisation.

• You have experience of working with senior leaders and private offices to respond to, and deliver, complex requests for information.

• You are proactive and efficient, with the ability to deliver at pace.

• You are flexible, adaptable, and have a willingness to learn, recognising how people best work together and facilitating the best team make-up depending on the situation.

• You have experience in solving issues and unblocking problems, ensuring you are working towards delivery commitments, and have a proven track record of managing various dependencies across teams or areas of work.

• You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical, and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for 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.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

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

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Candidates must submit CV and Statement of Suitability (750 words max) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

Application Guidance

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement

Application Guidance

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:

• Leadership

• Communicating & Influencing

• Delivering at Pace

• 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, which may include a task, held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on “You have experience of working with senior leaders and private offices to respond to, and deliver, complex requests for information” will be conducted before the sift. The panel will be conducting a sift on the following criteria from the Person Specification above:

• “You can shift context across a wide range of subject matters and manage a wide range of issues with diplomacy and discretion.”

• “You can build relationships and trust easily with people at various levels of an organisation.”

• “You have experience of working with senior leaders and private offices to respond to, and deliver, complex requests for information.”

• “You are proactive and efficient, with the ability to deliver at pace.”

• “You are flexible, adaptable, and have a willingness to learn, recognising how people best work together and facilitating the best team make-up depending on the situation.”

• “You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical, and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity.”

Candidates who do not demonstrate examples/details of their experience of the requirements stated under the Person Specification above in their Cover Letter will be rejected on this basis.

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.

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.

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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