SIO - Band B
[Include this information in the body of the advert and make sure that when ticking any boxes in Oleo you do not tick any that make other locations appear.] Location: National with a base at one of the following MOJ hubs: London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham. For this role you will work from one of these MOJ hubs.
About the team and the role
This is a great opportunity to join the proactive, highly respected, happy and award-winning MOJ internal communications team.
We are looking for an experienced, high-performing and collaborative communications professional to join our team and establish themselves as a trusted adviser to senior leadership.
You will play a role in developing and delivering outstanding communications to inform and inspire thousands of staff, motivating them to maximise their performance to deliver crucial services in a wide variety of roles and locations.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is one of the largest government organisations, with more than 95,000 staff in offices, courts and prisons across the country.
Our team leads on communications to our HQ staff and works closely with colleagues in MOJ’s agencies, including HMPPS and HMCTS.
In 2025 we were named the Best Public Sector Communications team in the UK by the Institute of Internal Communications (IOIC). It’s a great place to work.
We build strong relationships with leaders, and partner with key stakeholders, to provide strategic and reactive communications advice and delivery activity, to support and enable MOJ to achieve its priorities.
Across the team, our approach focuses on: engaging colleagues in the organisation’s purpose; building and influencing the organisation’s culture; and supporting leaders to communicate effectively with their people, including leading through change.
We advise our senior leaders and other colleagues on communications for the MoJ’s priorities and shape overall departmental strategies.
Our approach is based on building strong relationships with leaders, and partnering with key stakeholders, to provide strategic and creative communications advice, and deliver activity, to support and enable the organisation to achieve its priorities. You will play a leading role in ensuring that MoJ’s staff understand and buy in to our organisation’s mission, our shared values and our current priorities.
The role includes providing regular communication advice and support to the Director General of People and Capability and his senior team to keep the 1,200 HR professionals in the People and Capability Group engaged and informed.
The role may include delivering high-quality events with staff and senior leaders, supporting major transformation programmes and leading targeted behaviour change campaigns.
The role may also include work to support delivery of the team’s wider communications objectives.
Excellent communications judgment and proven ability to advise and influence senior stakeholders on internal communications strategy, making decisions and plans based on insight and evaluation.
Being proactive in building and maintaining collaborative relationships with colleagues at all grades across the organisation, including senior stakeholders.
Play a role in leadership of the team, ensuring our work is effective and innovative.
A curious and adaptable mindset, with a drive to improve the service you deliver.
Being comfortable operating in ambiguity in a complex operating environment.
Confidence in deciding where to focus attention and finding solutions when given different opinions and priorities and multiple sources of information.
Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities and changing deadlines.
Experience leading both in-person and online events.
Experience in turning complex policy language into easy-to-understand creative copy, with excellent drafting skills.
Have creative ideas and ability to deliver outstanding content and campaigns for our internal channels.
Evaluate the effectiveness of work to deliver continuous improvement.
Strong planning and organisational skills, including delivering communication products to tight deadlines.
Excellent grasp of the end-to-end communication process: experience developing and delivering communication plans from objective through to evaluation.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your behaviours, strengths, and experience.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Civil Service competencies https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a815610ed915d74e33fda4b/cscf_fulla4potrait_2013-2017_v2d.pdf
Seeing the Big Picture
Communicating and Influencing
Delivering at Pace
GCS competencies: https://www.communications.gov.uk/publications/competency-framework/
Insight. And specifically:
Be alert to emerging issues and trends which might impact or benefit own and team’s work.
Develop an understanding of own area’s strategy and how this contributes to Departmental priorities.
Actively encourage ideas from a range of sources and stakeholders and use these to inform thinking.
Identify a range of relevant and credible information sources and recognise the need to collect new data when necessary from internal and external sources.
Recognise patterns and trends in a wide range of evidence/data and draw key conclusions.
Actively seek input from a diverse range of people.
As part of the application process you will need to provide:
A CV
A statement of suitability of up to 750 words aligned to all elements of the Essential Criteria above. Note that if we get a high volume of applicants we will sift on the Insight competence, so do make sure you include this within your application.
Stage 2: Interview
If you are successful at the sift stage, you will be invited to a blended interview. At interview stage you will be assessed against the behaviours and experience listed in this vacancy, plus strengths. The interview will take place in person at MOJ’s London HQ. It will include a panel interview, and written activity.