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About the Role

The Judicial and Legal Services Policy Directorate is recruiting permanently for up to four Senior Policy Advisors. This campaign is open to current civil servants on level transfer and suitable candidates on promotion. These roles offer the opportunity to work on high-profile and fast-moving policy issues, develop advice for ministers and senior officials, and build relationships with senior stakeholders across government, the legal profession, and the regulatory community.

Responsibilities

Leading and delivering policy projects on high-profile issues affecting the regulatory framework and the wider legal services sector, while contributing to the team’s broader strategic priorities.
Providing timely and well-judged advice and briefings to ministers and senior officials on an often complex and sensitive range of legal services issues, and supporting their engagement with representative bodies and regulators.
Building and influencing stakeholder relationships across government and the legal services sector, understanding and reconciling different perspectives, and using these insights to shape and deliver effective policy.
Delivering high-quality and timely parliamentary and ministerial business, including correspondence, parliamentary questions, oral questions and Freedom of Information requests.
Contributing to the wider leadership and effective operation of the team, supporting colleagues, sharing expertise and responding flexibly to new and emerging priorities.

Requirements

Must be a current civil servant at the point of accepting the role.
Staff on fixed term appointments must have been recruited through fair and open competition.
Vacancies advertised “cross-government” are only open to all Civil Service employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) who were appointed on merit following a fair and open competition; or were appointed to a permanent post through an exception in the Civil Service Commissioners' rules.

Skills

The ability to manage a varied workload, and to identify priorities proactively.
The ability to grasp complex issues quickly and manage competing views within policy development.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to build relationships quickly across Government and externally.
Strong strategic thinking and policy development skills, with the ability to make sound judgements.
The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing.
Knowledge of the justice system and legal services sector.

Location

102 Petty France, London
5 Wellington Place, Leeds

Work Type

Full-time
Part-time
Job share
Flexible working patterns
Hybrid working model

Experience Level

Salary/Compensations

£42,914 - £46,182 (National)
£49,325- £53,081 (London)

Benefits

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.
Scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year.
Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day.
Choice of pension schemes.
Extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Opportunity to join employee-run networks.
A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

About the Company

MoJ is the largest government department, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £10 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
The legal services sector is a major contributor to the UK economy, generating approximately £42.6bn in 2024, delivering a trade surplus of £7.4bn, and employing around 384,000 people.
The Legal Services Policy Division, part of the Judicial and Legal Services Policy Directorate, helps ensure that UK legal services, courts, and English and Welsh law remain world-leading.
Our mission is to support a flourishing legal services sector that drives forward economic growth and trade for the UK both at home and abroad, underpinned by a strong regulatory framework that has consumer interests at its heart.
The team operates in a complex and distinctive landscape. While the legal profession and its regulators are independent of government, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for the regulatory framework established by the Legal Services Act 2007.
The Civil Service Code 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.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice.
As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant.
The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.