Ministry of Justice UK
Electronic Monitoring Digital Deputy Director
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
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 Role
The Electronic Monitoring (EM) Deputy Director (SCS1) is a senior digital leadership role providing end‑to‑end accountability for EM digital services in a high‑risk, safety‑critical environment. It leads digital, data and technology capability underpinning Electronic Monitoring, which is central to public protection and compliance enforcement.
The role operates across policy, operations, commercial and technical domains, ensuring continuity of services aligned to ministerial priorities. It is accountable for live service performance and strategic direction, including transformation, supplier strategy and future capability. The postholder must make authoritative decisions during incidents, outages and data integrity risks, often with significant reputational and public safety implications.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting into the HMPPS Chief Digital Officer you will be responsible for:
- Provide digital leadership in a mission-critical live service
- Be accountable for the availability, reliability, security and performance of EM digital systems.
- Ensure EM remains a trusted tool for public protection, supporting safe operational decisions.
- Balance operational risk, policy intent and supplier performance under pressure.
- Set the future of digital EM services, including:
- Product and platform development
- Investment prioritisation
- Supplier strategy
- Ensure services are user-centred, data-driven and technically resilient.
- Collaborate closely with peers to manage dependencies and ensure users’ needs are met
- Manage relationships with Ministers and C-suite stakeholders to gain strong buy-in within the Ministry of Justice and across the wider civil service. Ensure all relevant security and service standards are met, and departmental change delivery best practice is adhered to.
- Ensure budget and commercial management is in line with Treasury and Cabinet Office regulations.
- Management of a budget of ~£12m per annum
- Direct and matrix management of around 60 people
Please note, this list is not exhaustive and may evolve over time.
Additional Responsibilities
Governance, assurance & compliance
- Accountable for compliance with digital, cyber, privacy and data ethics standards
- Provide evidence to audit, governance boards and external scrutiny bodies
Essential Experience:
- Experienced senior leader, who has successfully led major and complex digital programmes of work
- Extensive experience of budget and commercial management
- Extensive experience of stakeholder management, including internal and external stakeholders up to executive or ministerial level
- Deep understanding of digital technologies, cloud adoption and modern delivery practices
- Managing Successful Programmes Accreditation or equivalent.
Desirable Experience:
- Understanding of Justice or public sector working environments
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: Equality and Diversity.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
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.
References
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:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
Alongside your salary of £86,000, Ministry of Justice 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: Candidate Information
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
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, Strengths 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.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
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 [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.
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 [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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location