Head of Civil, Family Tribunals and Victims Analysis and Head of Reducing Reoffending Analysis - #1779005

London (region), Yorkshire and the Humber

Job Summary

This position can be based at any of the following Locations: 102 Petty France (MOJ) London, SW1H 9AJ, 5 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4AP

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering a high-profile programme of analytical work on a range of important policy areas. The work of the team directly feeds into the Growth and Safer Streets missions. This includes:
• Analytical support to Family Justice initiatives which seek to either change and improve the way that Family Justice is delivered or to change the legislative framework. This will be achieved by delivering evaluations, appraising impacts and supporting business cases.
• Support the Government’s growth agenda by providing analysis to support the Legal Services market and Industrial Strategy, Lawtech, Judicial Review Reform, and looking at how civil justice reform can promote growth and the wider rule of law.
• Victims Commissioning and implementation – monitoring and evaluation of victims support service interventions. Supporting development of policy and evaluation of the introduction of independent legal advisors for adult rape victims, and fast-tracking of rape cases.
• Providing economic support on a range of issues relating to criminal law and beyond – the team are currently supporting impact assessments for the Crime and Policing Bill, the Duty to Collaborate consultation, and the Assisted Dying Bill amongst others.
• Provide analysis to set and appraise court fees, analytical work to support decisions around judicial renumeration, and analysis to support key Civil and Administrative Justice policy changes.
• Develop productive relationships with a range of stakeholders aimed at delivering more impactful analysis, including building close working relationships with Policy Directors to understand their needs and operational colleagues to ensure the right data underpins key decisions.
• Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key area of the department’s work.
• Foster an inclusive, supportive and high performing culture.
• Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
  
  

Head of Reducing Reoffending Analysis

The Role

This role reports to Adam Bailey, the Director of the Probation and Reoffending Directorate. The role has direct management of 4 x G6s with an overall leadership span of around 70 FTE. The team uses analysis and evidence to shape policy and operations, robustly evidence intervention impacts and take forward large- by Ministers, operational and policy leaders and those on the front-line – are informed by first-class evidence and delivering MoJ’s ambition to be an evidence-led department. In time, the role will also include teams producing modelling of Probation and Electronic Monitoring, subsequently increasing the overall leadership span.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a large multi-disciplinary analytical team to increase understanding of a complex area and deliver impactful analysis which shapes the department’s delivery of its priority outcomes to reduce reoffending – including through prison education, offender health, youth justice, accommodation and employment.
• Work closely with Ministers and senior policy and operational colleagues to shape the formulation
  
  

of new policy interventions and improve operational delivery in an objective and evidence-based manner – using analysis to make informed decision-making and produce better outcomes.

• Work hand in hand with senior policy and operational stakeholders within MoJ and across government to ensure that the work of the team is aligned with both short and longer-term priorities.
• Lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that the team is engaged and building the evidence to inform and impact, with a strong emphasis on building on our collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key departmental priority.
• Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering a high-profile programme of analytical work on a range of important policy areas. The work of the team directly feeds into the Growth and Safer Streets missions. This includes:
• Analytical support to Family Justice initiatives which seek to either change and improve the way that Family Justice is delivered or to change the legislative framework. This will be achieved by delivering evaluations, appraising impacts and supporting business cases.
• Support the Government’s growth agenda by providing analysis to support the Legal Services market and Industrial Strategy, Lawtech, Judicial Review Reform, and looking at how civil justice reform can promote growth and the wider rule of law.
• Victims Commissioning and implementation – monitoring and evaluation of victims support service interventions. Supporting development of policy and evaluation of the introduction of independent legal advisors for adult rape victims, and fast-tracking of rape cases.
• Providing economic support on a range of issues relating to criminal law and beyond – the team are currently supporting impact assessments for the Crime and Policing Bill, the Duty to Collaborate consultation, and the Assisted Dying Bill amongst others.
• Provide analysis to set and appraise court fees, analytical work to support decisions around judicial renumeration, and analysis to support key Civil and Administrative Justice policy changes.
• Develop productive relationships with a range of stakeholders aimed at delivering more impactful analysis, including building close working relationships with Policy Directors to understand their needs and operational colleagues to ensure the right data underpins key decisions.
• Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key area of the department’s work.
• Foster an inclusive, supportive and high performing culture.
• Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
  
  

Head of Reducing Reoffending Analysis

The Role

This role reports to Adam Bailey, the Director of the Probation and Reoffending Directorate. The role has direct management of 4 x G6s with an overall leadership span of around 70 FTE. The team uses analysis and evidence to shape policy and operations, robustly evidence intervention impacts and take forward large- by Ministers, operational and policy leaders and those on the front-line – are informed by first-class evidence and delivering MoJ’s ambition to be an evidence-led department. In time, the role will also include teams producing modelling of Probation and Electronic Monitoring, subsequently increasing the overall leadership span.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a large multi-disciplinary analytical team to increase understanding of a complex area and deliver impactful analysis which shapes the department’s delivery of its priority outcomes to reduce reoffending – including through prison education, offender health, youth justice, accommodation and employment.
• Work closely with Ministers and senior policy and operational colleagues to shape the formulation
  
  

of new policy interventions and improve operational delivery in an objective and evidence-based manner – using analysis to make informed decision-making and produce better outcomes.

• Work hand in hand with senior policy and operational stakeholders within MoJ and across government to ensure that the work of the team is aligned with both short and longer-term priorities.
• Lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that the team is engaged and building the evidence to inform and impact, with a strong emphasis on building on our collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key departmental priority.
• Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
  
  

Person specification

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:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving
  
  

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will need to be an analytical professional of the requisite experience and need to hold (or be capable of holding) a technical specialism in one of the analytical professions (GES, GORS, GSR, GSS)
  
  

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.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, 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, 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 developed vetting (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 developed vetting (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
  
  

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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 : [email protected]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL ([email protected]) 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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