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About the Role

This role will lead a team within the Office for the Permanent Secretary and Second Permanent Secretary, focusing on Civil and International Justice, Communications, and Technology. It offers a key portfolio opportunity and leadership within the Permanent Secretaries' Joint Private Office, providing unparalleled experience of departmental business and decision-making at the most senior level.

Responsibilities

Leading a team responsible for the Civil Justice, International, Communications and Technology portfolio, ensuring a high-quality service that delivers on principals’ priorities while maintaining clear and realistic expectations of the Department.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with officials across the portfolio area, as well as with Special Adviser and Ministerial Private Offices for those covering the same portfolio.
Building a strong relationship with both the Permanent and Second Permanent Secretary to understand their priorities, and anticipate their concerns.
Demonstrating strong judgement and working independently with resilience, adapting your approach to the principal, the issue and the audience.
Playing a key role in the divisions leadership, leading a high-performing, happy team able to navigate competing priorities and changing capacity.
Line management of one SEO, with the potential this could evolve.

Requirements

Existing Civil Servant employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are eligible to apply.
This campaign is open to current civil servants on level transfer and suitable candidates on promotion.
The role is unsuitable for part-time or flexible working, but full-time Jobsharers are welcome to apply.
This role requires National Security Vetting (SC).
Must have been present in the UK continuously for the past 5 years to be eligible for SC clearance.
Candidates must demonstrate adaptability, initiative, leadership, resilience and drive.
Candidates will need excellent judgement and the ability to secure progress amid uncertainty, competing views and changing priorities.
Candidates must be comfortable providing candid advice, managing expectations and offering constructive challenge, while retaining the confidence of the Permanent Secretaries and senior colleagues.
Must lead and support the wider team, maintaining a welcoming and professional culture during sustained periods of pressure.

Skills

A confident and credible communicator, able to work across levels of seniority.
Strong judgement and ability to balance competing priorities, and do so with calm and resilience.
Proven ability to build strong relationships across a range of stakeholders and with senior principals.
Experience working on Justice issues and / or private office work (desirable).

Location

102 Petty France, London

Work Type

Full Time
Part Time/Job Share

Experience Level

Grade 7

Salary/Compensations

£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.
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.
Private Secretary allowance is payable for extended hours.

About the Company

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is one of the largest government departments, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £9.5 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 MoJ Private Office and Parliament Directorate is a supportive and collaborative group, acting as the interface between the Permanent Secretary, Ministers, the rest of the Department and Whitehall. The Department is at the forefront of the Government’s programme to tackle serious crime and support victims.

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 is 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'.