Ministry of Justice UK
Deputy Director Chief People Officer Function & HR Profession
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Job Summary
This is a Nationally based role
Job Description
The Role
The Deputy Director, Chief People Officer Function and HR Profession plays a pivotal role in supporting the Director General People & Capability and Chief People Officer to lead one of the largest corporate functions in government, with responsibility for around 1,100 colleagues across the Ministry of Justice People & Capability Group and a significant leadership role across the Government HR Profession, representing approximately 12,000 HR professionals across government.
Operating at the centre of both departmental and cross-government priorities, the role enables the Chief People Officer to deliver organisational transformation, workforce reform and professional leadership agendas. The postholder provides the strategic grip, insight and leadership necessary to support effective decision-making, drive organisational performance and ensure the successful delivery of priorities across a complex and high-profile portfolio.
As a member of the People & Capability Senior Leadership Team, the postholder works across organisational boundaries, building strong partnerships with Cabinet Office, Government People Group and departmental leaders to strengthen the HR profession, support its future direction and improve outcomes for both the profession and the Ministry of Justice.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting into the Director General – People and Capability you will:
- Lead the Chief People Officer's Office, providing strategic leadership across the support arrangements for the Director General People & Capability and Chief People Officer, including both departmental responsibilities and the role as Joint Head of the Government HR Profession.
- Lead governance, business planning, performance, risk and assurance across People & Capability, ensuring senior leaders have the insight, challenge and evidence needed to make effective decisions and deliver strategic priorities.
- Lead transformation and organisational improvement activity across People & Capability and support delivery of the Government HR Profession transformation agenda, translating strategic priorities into delivery and measurable outcomes.
- Maintain strategic oversight of corporate and profession portfolios, ensuring risks, dependencies, resources and delivery priorities are effectively governed and managed.
- Work closely with Cabinet Office and Government People Function counterparts to provide strategic oversight of Government HR Profession activity, ensuring effective governance, reporting, accountability and decision-making arrangements are in place to support the Joint Heads of Profession in setting direction, exercising stewardship of the profession and delivering agreed priorities.
- Work closely with Cabinet Office counterparts to lead engagement activity on behalf of the Joint Heads of Profession, supporting development and delivery of the Government HR Profession strategy, brand and engagement approach, reflecting the profession's leadership arrangements across government.
- Act as a principal adviser to the Chief People Officer, providing strategic advice, challenge and assurance on organisational priorities, performance, risk and delivery.
- Lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team, creating an inclusive culture focused on delivery, continuous improvement and professional excellence.
Essential Experience
- Senior strategic leadership and advisory experience - Significant experience operating at a senior level within a complex organisation, providing strategic advice, challenge and assurance to executive leaders and influencing high-profile decisions.
- Corporate leadership, governance and organisational performance - A strong track record of leading corporate functions such as governance, business planning, performance, risk, assurance, strategy, private office or executive support, ensuring effective decision-making and organisational grip across complex portfolios.
- Transformation and change leadership - Proven experience of leading complex organisational transformation, reform or improvement activity, translating strategic ambition into delivery and achieving sustainable change across organisational boundaries.
- Cross-organisational influence and partnership working - Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, secure consensus and drive outcomes through collaboration across organisational and professional boundaries, including where there is no direct authority.
- Leadership of high-performing teams - Proven experience of leading and developing multidisciplinary teams through senior managers, creating an inclusive culture focused on delivery, continuous improvement and professional excellence.
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Desirable Experience:
- CIPD membership is desirable but not essential.
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:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £90,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £26,073 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
- 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
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
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.
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) 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.
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
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