East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber
Job Summary
This is a Nationally based role
Job Description
You will lead the directorate’s business architecture approach, with responsibility for a broad strategic delivery portfolio. Operating at the heart of the directorate you will lead and continuously improve the organisation’s design, maintaining a delivery model that is consistently right sized and capable of delivering our Property Strategy and Business Plan activity. Maturing and embedding a refreshed operating framework will ensure our governance, risk and assurance processes provide end to end oversight and alignment across the property portfolio. As such, this is a uniquely high-profile people-centred role, that puts you at the centre of departmental decision-making.
You will also be responsible for offering counsel and advice to the department’s Permanent Secretary and Directors General.
The role will include development and management of strategic asset opportunities and threats (at building level, acquisitions, disposals) and management of information, data and systems, underpinned by sound governance processes, analysis/use of data to inform decisions underpinning strategy, policy and planning. This strategic management of the Estate wide priorities would see the role working closely with stakeholders such as His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS).
Working directly to the Chief Property Officer, as a member of the Property Directorate Senior Leadership Team, you will plan and oversee a professional function, managing performance, risk, change and organisational design of the function to ensure that it delivers on its strategy and for its stakeholders.
You will lead the directorate’s business architecture approach, with responsibility for a broad strategic delivery portfolio. Operating at the heart of the directorate you will lead and continuously improve the organisation’s design, maintaining a delivery model that is consistently right sized and capable of delivering our Property Strategy and Business Plan activity. Maturing and embedding a refreshed operating framework will ensure our governance, risk and assurance processes provide end to end oversight and alignment across the property portfolio. As such, this is a uniquely high-profile people-centred role, that puts you at the centre of departmental decision-making.
You will also be responsible for offering counsel and advice to the department’s Permanent Secretary and Directors General.
The role will include development and management of strategic asset opportunities and threats (at building level, acquisitions, disposals) and management of information, data and systems, underpinned by sound governance processes, analysis/use of data to inform decisions underpinning strategy, policy and planning. This strategic management of the Estate wide priorities would see the role working closely with stakeholders such as His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS).
Working directly to the Chief Property Officer, as a member of the Property Directorate Senior Leadership Team, you will plan and oversee a professional function, managing performance, risk, change and organisational design of the function to ensure that it delivers on its strategy and for its stakeholders.
Person specification
Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process.
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:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Strategy and Business Planning
- Stakeholder Engagement
Alongside your salary of £81,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- 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
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.
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 vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.
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 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.
Successful candidates must undergo a 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.
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 the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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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-recruitment/complaints/
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