Data Improvement Manager, MOJ Data Improvement Programme Team, Data & Analysis, Ministry of Justice

We have 1 Data Improvement Manager role in the Data Improvement team, within the Data & Analysis Directorate.

We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. These are based at the following JCCs: Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham, South Tyneside, Brighton, Ipswich and Liverpool, and the following JSOs: Ashford, Beverley, Haverfordwest, Hull, Merthyr Tydfil, Manchester, Newport, Birmingham, Sheffield, North Shields, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Weston-Super-Mare, Stafford, Truro, and Winchester.

Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.

Interviews are likely to take place in May 2024 and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.

The MOJ and HMMPS Data Improvement Team

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the exciting Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and His Majesty's Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) Data Improvement Team.

This role is within a team leading on the transformation of decision-making at the MOJ and HMPPS. The MOJ is committed to improving justice outcomes for millions of people through data-driven insight and innovation, so we're investing in essential work to ensure that data meets user needs and to build a culture that values data as a strategic asset. We are also leading work within the CJS to tackle shared problems with data and drive better strategic and operational decision-making. In this three-year improvement programme, we are looking at complex issues around sharing data between departments, data literacy, data quality and governance.

We work collaboratively with teams across Data and Analysis, Digital, MOJ and the wider Criminal Justice System - including digital teams, learning and development teams, data scientists and engineers etc. As part of a change programme, we are working at a fast pace and getting things done. We're open about the work we're doing and want to get feedback from our colleagues and are always looking for ways to iterate and improve.

If successful, you will join an established team of data professionals working across several important MOJ and HMPPS data transformation programmes. Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?

Why work in Data and Analysis?
The Data Improvement Team sit within the Data and Analysis Directorate. In Data and Analysis, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff.

What we offer

• Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity - including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office.


• Career development - regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.


• Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques - we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).


• Analysis is at the centre of the Department's decision making - our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes. The Ministry of Justice's Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven - your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact


• Vibrant community - part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.


• See the frontline and what your work is influencing - regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting.


What you'll do

• Engage with Data and Digital teams to map their ways-of-working and governance structures to identify how enhanced interactions can arise.


• Develop, pilot and implement policies, procedures and guidance for enhanced ways-of-working between various teams.


• Track and record the risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies of pilots implemented to enhance ways-of-working.


• Design, institute and report on means of recording the outputs of pilots implemented to enhance ways-of-working.


• Represent the MOJ/HMPPS Data Improvement Team at various forums and groups to ensure our aims are appropriately represented.


• Work, depending on the needs of the HMPPS Data Improvement Team, with other Digital teams/in other thematic areas of HMPPS data improvement in the future., You will be assessed against the Civil service success profiles framework and strengths at interview stage:


• Communicating and Influencing


• Changing and Improving


• Working Together


Please note that strengths are not disclosed in advance of the interview.

Please also refer to the CS Behaviours framework for more details at this grade.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf, The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity.

Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone's circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.

For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre-employment checks.

Some of MoJ's terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.

MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain their grade on lateral transfer.

All candidates who are currently in receipt of Mark Time / Pay Protection should ensure they are familiar with the new policy on permanent and temporary promotion which can be found on the employee intranet.

Flexible working hours

The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. MoJ welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ's Flexible Working policy.,
• You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government


• You were studying abroad


• You were living overseas with parents


In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.
Success Profiles

Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?,
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, ability to form and maintain strong relationships with people inside and outside of your immediate team.


• Strong communicator, who works collaboratively to build consensus in a fast-changing strategic and delivery environment.


• Demonstrated track record of managing complex and diverse stakeholder relationships.


• Is comfortable changing their approach to respond to emerging issues and risks, while maintaining a strong focus on overall strategic goals.


• Passionate about data and has a track record in working with data and data systems, understanding the value of high-quality data in enabling analysis that drives positive outcomes.


• Proactively manages their own priorities, taking a vision and making it reality.


• Spots opportunities outside of immediate work area to help improve data driven decision making .


• Possesses and confidently deploys project and portfolio management skills., Experience with eliciting requirements from stakeholders and capturing user needs - especially from users of data or data systems.


• An ability to plan and prioritise competing work strands.


• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, both within and outside your immediate colleagues, particularly acting as a translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Experience in Leading Knowledge and Information Management.


• Experience of supporting and influencing organisational behavioural and cultural change


Desirable criteria:

• Experience working in digital or agile teams and awareness of agile ways of working


• Experience in process/governance mapping.


• An ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience., Delivering at Pace


• Seeing the Bigger Picture


Your CV should be no more than 2 pages long and should show us your work history and previous experience. It should be well structured, succinct and written in clear language.

Selection Process

Those who make it through the initial sift will be invited to a Civil Service Success Profile interview. In the Civil Service we use Success Profiles to help us find the right person for the job. We will be using a mixture of methods to assess your abilities, strengths, experience, technical skills and behaviours. We highly recommend learning about Success Profiles and using the Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection (STARR) framework when structuring your answers., To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why.

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535, London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
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NATIONAL, The MoJ offers a range of benefits:

Annual Leave

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years' service.

There is also a 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. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.

Pension

The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.

Training

The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.

Networks

The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

Support

• 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.


• For moves to or from another employer or moves across the Civil Service this can have implications on your eligibility to carry on claiming childcare vouchers. You may however be eligible for alternative government childcare support schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. More information can be found on GOV.UK or Childcare Choices. You can determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.


• Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.


• Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.


Working for the Civil Service

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. Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order

• To Shared Service Connected Ltd (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com);


• To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team (resourcing-management-office@justice.gov.uk);


• To the Civil Service Commission (details available here)


The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. 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., Changing and Improving
Working Together
Strengths may also be assessed at interview but these are not shared in advance.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.