Ministry of Justice UK
Transformation Director
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Job Summary
This is a Nationally based role.
Job Description
This is a pivotal leadership role, joining a small and collaborative executive team committed to delivering OPG’s strategy of being customer focused, innovating and modernising together. This role is critical in shaping and delivering OPG strategic roadmap, driving forward OPG’s transformation portfolio, developing customer insight capabilities and supporting change and innovation throughout OPG, along with making sure OPG has the capability and capacity for the future.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting into the Public Guardian and Chief Executive, you will:
- Ensure the delivery of OPG’s transformation portfolio, including Modernising Lasting Powers of Attorney which is critical to OPG’s longer-term financial stability and improving customer experience and outcomes.
- Develop and implement OPG’s Target Operating Model and Strategic Workforce Plan, including planning for and delivering significant people change.
- Set clear strategic direction for OPG, along with development of the roadmap to deliver OPG’s strategy.
- Strengthen customer insight and experience to drive evidence-based decision making and improved services.
- Champion innovation, including drawing together initiatives that test and embed AI in OPG.
- Strengthen and promote the reputation of OPG across government and externally.
- Be a visible, approachable and authentic leader as part of the Executive team, building a positive and engaged culture, and nurture resilient and well-functioning teams.
- Provide challenge, support and scrutiny as a member of OPG Executive Committee, Portfolio and Change Board, and wider OPG governance.
- As part of the senior leadership team, support OPG through a period of significant change and be adaptable to changing responsibilities.
You should provide clear evidence and examples that demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role.
Later in this pack, you will find details of which elements will be assessed at each stage of the process, helping you focus your application and prepare effectively.
Essential Experience
- Experience of leading and setting direction for large, diverse teams with oversight of a broad portfolio of work, including building and empowering resilient teams able to prioritise and adapt to new challenges.
- Experience of strategic development and delivery – experience of turning ambition into achievements.
- Experience of being part of a leadership team managing an organisation through significant change and transformation to achieve better quality service for customers.
- Able to work collaboratively across organisational lines to achieve shared objectives by developing excellent relationships.
- Proven experience of gripping complex issues, setting clear priorities and delivering through others to agreed timescales.
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.
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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
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-plan-2024-2027
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy-2022-to-2025
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
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
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: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ
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
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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 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.
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.
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
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