Head of Digital Talent Acquisition & Engagement
Location: National*
Closing Date: 09 January 2025
Interviews: From 21 January 2025
Grade: 6
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £73,115 - £85,913; National: £68,967 - £78,842, which may include an allowance up to £12,798
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
We’re recruiting for a Head of Digital Talent Acquisition & Engagement here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
This role aligns against Service Owner from the Government Digital and Data Framework
As the head of a pivotal function, you will oversee the end-to-end service line, from talent acquisition to strategic workforce planning and successful onboarding of new joiners. You will play a strategic role, ensuring the service line is seamlessly integrated, efficient, and continuously improved to meet evolving business needs.
You will operate at scale and provide the connection between multidisciplinary business areas and stakeholders. You will be responsible for the successful operation of your service, ensuring that it is in line with Justice Digital’s mission and contributes to the overall goals of the Ministry of Justice. Your work will directly communicate and liaise with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and with external partners.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Owning and leading the strategic direction for recruitment, workforce planning, onboarding and communications and engagement across Justice Digital.
Lead the Recruitment & Engagement team providing clear direction to support them to deliver a strategy that supports Justice Digitals and the MoJ’s business objectives and ensure staff feel empowered, connected and understand the part they play in the departments success.
Operating at scale to manage the end-to-end service line, ensuring that necessary business processes are followed.
Establishing strong strategic relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and suppliers, acting as an escalation point for delivery teams and ensure consistent and joined up internal and external communications.
Communicating the benefits and performance of your service to internal and external stakeholders.
Proactively identifying opportunities for service improvements and implementing changes in collaboration with the respective teams. Ensuring teams consistently deliver high quality work by quality assuring and evaluating effectiveness.
Managing operational issues and championing operational management across the community.
Developing a long-term vision and objectives for the service, ensuring they align with the strategic goals of Justice Digital and the Ministry of Justice.
Facilitating collaboration between your team and other teams within Justice Digital to drive targeted enablement and adoption efforts and engagement.
Advocating for user focus, ensuring the service meets users' needs across various channels.
Ensuring that resourcing activities comply with legislative, regulatory, and Ministry of Justice requirements.
Partnering with product delivery managers to develop consumer-based, integrated enablement plans for new capabilities.
Anticipating problems and building problem-solving capabilities within your team to deal with them proactively.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
5 days volunteering paid leave.
Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Essential
A proven and resilient leader with a track record of delivering a high-volume digital and technology recruitment function within a complex organisation and able to provide motivational leadership to the team.
Expert-level strategic ownership: you develop a long-term vision and objectives and take a discerning and disciplined approach to focus on what is most relevant.
Expert-level operational management: you make operations efficient, act as the escalation point for major operational issues and work closely with leaders of delivery teams in Government Digital and Data.
Expert-level problem management: you anticipate and defend against problems at the right time by understanding how the problem fits into the larger picture and building problem-solving capabilities in others.
User focus. Gives direction on which tools or methods to use. Is experienced in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. Able to bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure these are met by the business. Applies strategic thinking in how to provide the best service for the end user.
Qualification or expert-level experience in Agile project management.
Expert knowledge of recruitment technology, civil service recruitment principles, HR policies, and pay structures and the ability to ensure these are integrated into all aspects of the recruitment service.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
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 D&I Strategy.
Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (up to 750 words), which describes how you meet the following requirements set out in the Person Specification above:
A proven and resilient leader with a track record of delivering a high-volume digital and technology recruitment function within a complex organisation and able to provide motivational leadership to the team.
Qualification or expert-level experience in Agile project management.
Expert knowledge of recruitment technology, civil service recruitment principles, HR policies, and pay structures and the ability to ensure these are integrated into all aspects of the recruitment service.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
Changing & Improving
Leadership
Making Effective Decisions
Managing a Quality Service
Seeing the Big Picture
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk