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
Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?
Overview
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 Majestys 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 were 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. Were open about the work were 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 Departments decision making our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes. The Ministry of Justices 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 youll 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.
Who you are
- 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.
Essential criteria:
- 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.
How to apply
Youll need to submit an anonymised CV and demonstrate how you meet the following behaviours:
- 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.
The highest scoring candidates that pass the interview will be offered the roles. The whole process can take up to a month.
Behaviours
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
Further Information
If you require any additional information about the role, please contact: Art Mitchells-Urwin, Data Improvement Lead, [email protected]
