Strategy Hub Engagement and Portfolio Support Officer (Ref: 21454)

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

Strategy Hub Engagement and Portfolio Support Officer

Location: National*

Interviews: Week commencing 21st September 2026

Grade: HEO

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

Salary**: National: £35,335 - £37,847, London: £40,014 - £42,859

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

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 21454

*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

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Strategy Hub Engagement and Portfolio Officer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative PMO & Data Strategy Hub team.

This role will support the Strategy Hub Portfolio and Alignment Lead in maintaining a clear view of priorities, dependencies, risks, actions and engagement across the Directorate.

The postholder will work closely with the SEO Portfolio and Alignment Lead, Head of Strategy Hub, PMO colleagues, G6 strategy and hub leads and other stakeholders to support a joined-up strategic-delivery system. They will help coordinate the rhythms, evidence and artefacts that allow strategic conversations to be better prepared, better recorded and easier to act upon.

This is a practical and varied role for someone who is organised, confident working with information and comfortable engaging with people across different teams. It requires someone who can turn discussion into clear actions, support the development of concise briefings and help maintain shared artefacts without adding unnecessary process burden. The role will not act as a delivery authority or central gatekeeper. Instead, it will provide enabling support that helps the Strategy Hub operate with credibility, pace and consistency.

This role offers the opportunity to help shape how the Data Directorate improves strategic coherence, supports prioritisation and connects delivery activity to organisational outcomes. You will work close to senior strategic conversations while developing strong experience in portfolio support, stakeholder engagement, governance preparation, strategic communications and evidence-led decision-making.

It is a strong opportunity for someone looking to build their experience in strategy, transformation, PMO or portfolio environments within a complex and mission-driven public sector setting. You will play an important enabling role in helping the Strategy Hub operate as a trusted, practical and useful function that supports better Justice outcomes.

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Strategy Hub to maintain an outcome-led view of Directorate priorities, helping collate information that links initiatives to the MoJ Data Direction, Directorate priorities and wider organisational outcomes.
• Coordinate inputs for Strategy Hub artefacts, including strategic roadmaps, outcomes frameworks, portfolio alignment assessments, dependency and duplication views, action logs and trade-off or decision registers.
• Gather, structure and quality-check information from PMO reporting, governance papers, portfolio updates, engagement sessions and other sources to support portfolio-level insight.
• Prepare first drafts of meeting packs, briefings, slide decks, notes, summaries and action records, turning discussion and information into clear, concise products.
• Support regular engagement with G6 strategy and hub leads by scheduling sessions, preparing agendas, capturing key issues and tracking follow-up actions relating to priorities, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
• Work closely with PMO colleagues to keep strategy and delivery information connected, helping ensure actions, risks, dependencies and narrative updates are reflected consistently where appropriate.
• Maintain well-organised records, evidence logs and shared working documents so that strategic conversations are traceable, current and easy for stakeholders to use.
• Support the identification of emerging duplication, dependency or sequencing issues by collating evidence and highlighting themes.
• Help create clear narratives that explain how local delivery activity contributes to wider strategic outcomes, adapting messages for different audiences and governance contexts.
• Provide practical support to workshops, prioritisation conversations and trade-off discussions, including logistics, pre-read preparation, facilitation support, note-taking and action tracking.
• Contribute ideas for improving Strategy Hub processes, templates and artefacts based on stakeholder feedback and evidence of what is most useful.
• Support a culture where strategic challenge is constructive, decisions are evidence-led and teams can better understand how their work contributes to better Justice outcomes.

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 can organise meetings, actions, information and deadlines across multiple stakeholders, maintaining momentum and attention to detail in a busy environment.
• You can gather, structure and interpret information from a range of sources, identify themes and present evidence in a way that supports decision-making.
• You can build effective working relationships across teams, engage confidently with colleagues at different levels and follow up constructively to secure inputs and actions.
• You can apply sound judgement, prioritise competing demands and know when to escalate issues, risks or gaps in information to colleagues.
• Experience supporting meetings, workshops or governance forums, including preparing papers, recording decisions and tracking actions.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS 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.

Salary Information**

Base salary for this role is from £35,335 - £37,847 (National) or £40,014 - £42,859 (London)

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.

Use of 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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Person specification

Please refer to the attached Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,335, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,236 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• 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

How to Apply

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using the Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application

A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.

A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.

• You can organise meetings, actions, information and deadlines across multiple stakeholders, maintaining momentum and attention to detail in a busy environment.
• You can gather, structure and interpret information from a range of sources, identify themes and present evidence in a way that supports decision-making.
• You can apply sound judgement, prioritise competing demands and know when to escalate issues, risks or gaps in information to colleagues.

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on you can gather, structure and interpret information from a range of sources, identify themes and present evidence in a way that supports decision-making. will be conducted before the sift.

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance

Stage 2 - Interviews:

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience and the following Behaviours:

• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the working together behaviour will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.

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 basic (or equivalent) 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.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).

Apply and further information

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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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