Ministry of Justice UK
Deputy Director, Facilities Management and Technical Services
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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
The Deputy Director, Facilities Management and Technical Services is a senior leadership role reporting to the Property Director and is responsible for the strategic leadership of Facilities Management, Security and Technical Services across the HMCTS estate.
You will lead the delivery of safe, secure, compliant and operationally resilient services across a diverse and nationally significant property portfolio, ensuring that court and tribunal buildings effectively support the administration of justice. The role is accountable for the performance of major FM and Security contracts, driving high-quality service delivery, value for money and continuous improvement.
Working closely with operational colleagues, the judiciary, Ministry of Justice partners and external suppliers, you will build strong stakeholder relationships to ensure the estate continues to meet the evolving needs of HMCTS. You will also play a key role in shaping the future delivery model for FM and Security services, including the reprocurement of nationally significant contracts and the implementation of HMCTS's wider Estates Strategy.
This is a high-profile leadership position requiring strategic thinking, commercial acumen and the ability to lead large, geographically dispersed teams to deliver excellent services that enable access to justice across England and Wales.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting into the Property Director you will:
- Be the Senior Business Owner for HMCTS's Facilities Management (£77m per annum) and Security (£86m per annum) contracts, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, value-for-money services across the estate.
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight of Facilities Management, Security and Technical Services, ensuring the estate remains safe, secure, compliant, operationally resilient and fit for purpose.
- Work closely with MOJ Commercial colleagues to drive supplier performance, commercial governance, continuous improvement and value for money across major outsourced contracts.
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team of over 70 colleagues, fostering a high-performing culture and providing professional leadership across facilities management, security and technical services functions.
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with HMCTS Operations, the judiciary, Ministry of Justice colleagues, partner organisations and external suppliers to ensure estate services support the effective delivery of justice and lead the Court Care programme
- Provide strategic advice and assurance to senior HMCTS and Property Directorate leaders on facilities management and security matters.
- Lead the development of future service delivery arrangements, including the successful reprocurement of the national FM and Security contracts ahead of their expiry in 2029.
- Support the delivery of HMCTS's Estates Strategy, ensuring that facilities, security and technical services contribute to organisational priorities, sustainability objectives and the long-term stewardship of the estate.
Essential Experience
- Significant experience leading facilities management and technical services within a large, complex organisation, ensuring the delivery of safe, secure, compliant and operationally resilient services.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience overseeing major outsourced service contracts and significant budgets, driving supplier performance, value for money and continuous improvement.
- A proven ability to think strategically and lead complex programmes, service transformation or organisational change, balancing long-term objectives with operational delivery and risk management.
- Exceptional communication and relationship management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders, boards, operational stakeholders and external partners to achieve organisational outcomes.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience leading the procurement, mobilisation or transformation of large-scale facilities management, security or property-related contracts.
- Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. IWFM, RICS, CIOB, CIBSE, IET or equivalent).
Person Specification
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.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £86,000, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £24,914 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.
For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.
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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.
Contact Point for Applicants
Job Contact:
- Name: SCS Recruitment Team
- Email: scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk
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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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