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About the Role

This is a high-profile and rewarding opportunity to lead strategic policy on one of the Ministry of Justice's highest priorities. The role involves shaping and coordinating complex policy development, driving delivery across multiple teams, and ensuring the prison estate is equipped to meet both immediate operational pressures and long-term challenges. You will sit at the centre of the prison estates portfolio, leading work that cuts across different policy areas, leading on discrete estates projects and providing strategic oversight of key ministerial priorities.

Responsibilities

Leading and coordinating the prison estates approach to future Spending Reviews.
Overseeing policy development and departmental responses relating to the Independent Review into the Prison System.
Delivering high-priority, time-bound strategic projects across the estates portfolio, including work on accommodation requirements for specific cohorts.
Providing high-quality advice, submissions and briefing to senior leaders, Ministers and Parliament.
Responding effectively to emerging issues, ministerial commissions and other time-critical priorities.
Building and maintaining strong relationships across MoJ, HMPPS, other government departments and external stakeholders.
Line managing at least one SEO, providing leadership, support and development opportunities.
Playing an active role within the Estates Senior Management Team and contributing to an inclusive, supportive and high-performing team culture.

Requirements

This vacancy is only available to existing Civil Servant employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs).
Candidates are reminded that to be eligible for this campaign; you must still be employed as a civil servant at the point of accepting the role.
The ability to rapidly understand complex issues and develop high-quality, evidence-based policy at pace.
Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
Excellent drafting, briefing and presentation skills, with experience communicating complex issues to senior audiences.
The ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes under pressure.
Strategic thinking and the ability to set direction across teams and stakeholders.
Experience of influencing and collaborating with senior leaders, operational partners, other government departments and external organisations.
Strong leadership skills, with a commitment to delivering through others, developing individuals, empowering colleagues and fostering high performance.
Experience working on prison and/or Criminal Justice System policy (Desirable).
Experience using analytical evidence to inform policy development and decision-making (Desirable).

Skills

Policy development
Strategic planning
Project delivery
Stakeholder management
Leadership
Communication
Drafting
Briefing
Presentation
Relationship building
Influencing
Collaboration
Analytical thinking

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

Grade 7

Salary/Compensations

National salary range £58,511 - £65,329
London salary range £63,343 - £70,725

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.
Civil Service pension schemes.
Extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Opportunity to join employee-run networks.
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 Prisons Directorate is responsible for advising Ministers on all aspects of prison policy. Our priorities include ensuring there is sufficient prison capacity to meet demand for places, improving safety and security across the prison estate and ensuring prisons enable rehabilitation. The Workforce, Estates and Digital team has a central role in the directorate looking at options to increase prison capacity, improve standards and resilience of the estate, as well as owning policy on the prison workforce, pay and digital technology.

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.
MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.