Transformation Office Deputy Director

Job summary

This is a National based role

Job description

Working as part of the Service Strategy and Transformation Senior Leadership Team, the Deputy Director will oversee the Ministry of Justice transformation landscape, provide portfolio oversight, build leadership capability, tackle systemic barriers that affect transformation delivery across the MoJ and set drive the Transformation Strategy across the Department.

The Deputy Director will oversee: The Transformation Portfolio, which creates joined-up view of the MoJ’s highest-priority transformation activity; the Capabilities team equips senior leaders with the skills, behaviours and resources to lead transformation; the Design team works across organisational boundaries to address systemic obstacles and improve the conditions for deliver; and set the Department’s Transformation Strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Transformation Office Function

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the Transformation Office pillar within Service Strategy and Transformation.

Manage the Transformation Landscape

• Oversee the enterprise transformation landscape across MoJ, HMCTS, HMPPS and relevant arm's-length bodies, maintaining an independent view of delivery confidence, performance, risk, affordability and cross-programme dependencies across major transformation activity.

Support Delivery and Remove Barriers

• Act as an escalation point for delivery challenges raised by transformation programmes.
• Facilitate problem solving and broker support from across MOJ where delivery risks or barriers emerge.

Drive Transformation Governance and Performance

• Develop and support the maintenance of proportionate governance arrangements for transformation activity.

Stakeholder Leadership and Collaboration

• Provide authoritative, independent advice to Ministers, ExCo, Directors General, SROs and senior boards on transformation performance, delivery confidence and emerging risks, determining where issues require escalation or intervention and presenting clear choices and recommendations to support timely decision-making.

Leadership and People Management

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of transformation practitioners
• Create an inclusive and high-performing team culture.

Establish and Drive Transformation Strategy

• Set and lead the MoJ transformation strategy, building alignment across senior leaders and embedding a coherent, outcome-focused approach to transformation across the department.

Service Design Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership for the Transformation Office's service design capability, setting and championing best practice and using user research and service-design evidence to identify systemic barriers and opportunities for improved services across the transformation portfolio.

The role will have responsibility for a team of 25 FTE and will contribute to oversight of significant transformation investment across the department.

Essential Experience:

• Strategic problem-solving: Expert at breaking down complex and ambiguous problems, using quantitative and qualitative evidence to develop practical solutions. Able to see the bigger picture, identify systemic barriers and connect delivery challenges to the wider transformation strategy and outcomes for the MoJ.
• Transformation and change leadership: A strong track record of leading complex transformation and delivering innovative approaches to change at pace and scale. Able to translate strategic ambitions into practical action and measurable outcomes, with a strong commitment to transforming how the Civil Service designs and delivers services.
• Portfolio, governance and delivery oversight: Significant experience of overseeing complex portfolios and senior-level governance, using evidence and insight to understand performance, identify risks, opportunities and dependencies, and enable effective prioritisation and senior decision-making.
• Senior stakeholder management and influence: Exceptional ability to engage and influence senior leaders, navigate complex political and organisational dynamics, and build trusted relationships across organisational and functional boundaries to resolve difficult issues and deliver shared outcomes.
• Leadership and capability building: Proven ability to lead, motivate and develop high-performing leaders and cross-functional teams through uncertainty and change. Skilled at setting direction, empowering others and creating a culture of accountability, learning and continuous improvement, while building the capability needed to sustain transformation.

Person specification

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.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Behaviours

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £86,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £24,914 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) 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.

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

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.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…

https://jobs.justice.gov.uk/careers/JobDetail/23747?entityId=23747

Attachments

(SCS1) Candidate Information Pack Transformation Office Deputy Director Opens in new window (docx, 5000kB)