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About the Role

The Youth Justice and Offender Policy Directorate is recruiting permanently for two Senior Policy Advisors for Recall Policy. This role involves developing innovative approaches to complex policy challenges, providing advice and briefing to ministers and stakeholders, and managing projects. The position offers the opportunity to make a significant difference in how offenders are dealt with by the criminal justice system.

Responsibilities

• Developing innovative approaches to complex policy challenges using evidence and data.
• Providing clear, well-researched, and timely advice, briefings, and correspondence to Ministers, senior leaders, Parliamentarians, and stakeholders.
• Scoping, planning, and managing work using project management techniques, including risk and issue management.
• Maintaining and owning close relationships with key stakeholders within the MoJ/HMPPS, across government, and within the third sector.

Requirements

• Must be a current Civil Servant or employee of an accredited non-departmental public body (NDPB) at the point of accepting the role.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams and confidently represent government with external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and adjust to changing demands.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication to different audiences.
• Strong influencing skills, including the confidence to provide constructive challenge.
• Creative problem-solving skills and confidence using AI and other tools for innovative solutions.
• Ability to work closely with operational colleagues, analysts, and lawyers to understand data, legal frameworks, and develop solutions.
• Ability to quickly understand complex information from various sources and identify its place in the wider picture.
• Experience of working on criminal justice (desirable).
• Experience working with data (desirable).

Skills

• Policy development
• Advice and briefing
• Project oversight
• Stakeholder relations
• Collaborative work
• Communication (written and verbal)
• Influencing
• Problem-solving
• AI and other tools
• Data analysis
• Legal framework understanding

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

• Senior Policy Advisor
• SEO

Salary/Compensations

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

Benefits

• Annual leave: 25 days on appointment, increasing to 30 days after five years' service.
• Option to buy or sell up to three days leave each year.
• Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day.
• Choice of Civil Service pension schemes.
• Extensive training and development opportunities.
• Opportunity to join employee-run networks.
• Family Friendly policies (reduced hours, job share).
• Access to flexible benefits (retail vouchers, discounts).
• Potential eligibility for government childcare support schemes.
• Paid paternity, adoption, and maternity leave.
• Free annual sight tests for computer screen users.

About the Company

• The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is the largest government department, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £10 billion. It provides services across the UK, including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
• The Prison Demand and Release (PDR) Policy Team, within the Youth Justice and Offender Policy (YJOP) Directorate, plays a crucial role in addressing the prison capacity challenge by working with HMPPS, other policy teams, and legal and analytical teams to advise ministers.
• The team's remit includes addressing the growing prison recall population, which has been a key part of the prison capacity challenge and has high ministerial and stakeholder attention.

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.
• The MoJ is proud to be Level 3 Disability Confident, offering guaranteed interviews for all people with disabilities meeting the minimum criteria.
• As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ is 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.
• The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.