This vacancy is only available to existing Civil Servant employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs). Please review the "Eligibility" section before you apply.
General Information
Salary
The national salary range is £71,381 - £80,419, London salary range is £75,674 - £85,257. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
Working Pattern
Full Time, Part Time, Flexible Working
Vacancy Approach
Cross Government
Location
National
Region
National
Closing Date
28-Aug-2026
Post Type
Permanent
Civil Service Grade
Grade 6
Number of jobs available
1
Reserve List
12 Months
Job ID
21150
Descriptions & requirements
Job description
Interviews: week commencing 14th September 2026 (subject to change)
Grade: 6
Salary:
National: £71,381 - £80,419
London: £75,674 - £85,257
Contract Type: Permanent
Working pattern: full-time. 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
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Head of Data Sharing here at Justice Digital, Data and Science. The successful candidate will lead the department’s approach to data sharing, allowing us to leverage data from across the public sector and beyond to achieve our strategic objectives. They will oversee the Data Sharing Hub which aims to make it easier and quicker for the department to work with partners to deliver joint aims through the sharing of data. The Hub provides support to other teams, helping to shepherd projects which involve data sharing through governance processes (including seeking approval for Data Protection Impact Assessments and Data Sharing Agreements), utilising their knowledge of internal and external processes and stakeholders.
Success in this role will be defined by excellence in both strategic and operational leadership. In the former by ensuring we are leveraging data sharing and maximising the value derived from cross-system partnerships. In the latter by driving down the time it takes the department to acquire data. Data sharing between public bodies can often take many years to agree, hampering progress towards greater join up and therefore leaving cracks between services open. This results in poor outcomes for members of the public and undermines public sector productivity. This role will address these challenges by focusing on making data sharing more efficient, leading to better connected public services.
This role sits within Justice Data which exists to ensure that high quality data, and algorithms and tools built on that data, are available, trusted, and effectively used to improve decision making across the justice system. It plays a critical enabling role in delivering the department’s strategic, operational, and transformation priorities by turning complex and fragmented data into meaningful insight and practical tools.
The Data Sharing Hub supports teams across Justice Data, Justice Digital, and the department’s analytical functions to share data to and from other organisations.
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
- A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
- 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
- Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
- 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.
- 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!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the department’s approach to data sharing, enabling the Ministry of Justice to leverage data from across the public sector and beyond to deliver strategic objectives.
- Maximise the value derived from cross-system partnerships by identifying, shaping, and supporting opportunities to share data in pursuit of shared outcomes.
- Drive improvements to the department’s data sharing processes so that data can be acquired and shared more efficiently, reducing delays and enabling better joined-up public services.
- Oversee the progression of data sharing projects through governance processes, including support for Data Protection Impact Assessments, Data Sharing Agreements, and related approvals.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, influencing senior leaders, partner organisations, and specialist teams to support successful data sharing outcomes.
- Provide strategic advice and practical support to teams across Justice Data, Justice Digital, analytical functions and relevant frontline operations on data sharing requirements, routes, and dependencies.
- Identify and resolve barriers to delivery, managing complex and sensitive issues to maintain momentum across multiple concurrent projects.
- Lead and develop the Data Sharing Hub, creating a high-performing, collaborative environment with clear priorities and a strong focus on service delivery.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
- Delivering at pace: an ability to lead complex data sharing projects from inception to delivery, maintaining progress, and anticipating, identifying, and responding to blockers.
- Strategic thinking: an ability to understand a complex multi-organisation system and define approaches that enable the department to leverage data sharing to achieve strategic objectives.
- Strong leadership capability, with a proven ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve high performance, while building support, consensus and effective working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and partner organisations.
- Technical skills: Knowledge of data sharing governance procedures and documentation, e.g. Data Sharing Agreements, Data Protection Impact Assessments, and the practical steps needed to improve the efficiency of acquiring and sharing data across organisational boundaries.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
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.
Salary Information**
Base salary for this role is from £71381 – £80419 (National), £75674 – £85257 (London)
- Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transferwill retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
- Existing Civil Servants who are promotedwill either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
Benefits
- 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.
How to Apply
In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process.
Stage 1 - Application and sift:
To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application.
- ACV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
- Astatement of suitability (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
- Delivering at pace: an ability to manage projects from inception to delivery, maintaining progress, and anticipating, identifying, and responding to blockers.
- Strong leadership capability, with a proven ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve high performance, while building support, consensus and effective working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and partner organisations.
- Technical skills: Knowledge of data sharing governance procedures and documentation, and the practical steps needed to improve the efficiency of acquiring and sharing data across organisational boundaries.
A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and statement of suitability to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and statement of suitability do not include your name or any other identifying details.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the below will be conducted before the sift.
- Strong leadership capability, with a proven ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve high performance, while building support, consensus and effective working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and partner organisations.
- Technical skills: Knowledge of data sharing governance procedures and documentation, and the practical steps needed to improve the efficiency of acquiring and sharing data across organisational boundaries.
Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance
Stage 2 - Interviews:
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience, Technical and the following Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a 5 minute presentation that assesses your technical capability and experience. Further details will be provided if successful at sift.
Appointments are made strictly in merit order. If two or more candidates receive identical interview scores Leadership will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.
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.
Terms & Conditions
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 datarecruitment@justice.gov.
Additional Information
Working Arrangements & Further Information
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity.
Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
For nationally advertised roles: All successful candidates will be appointed to the nearest viable office nearest to their home postcode and on its respective pay scale. This will be at either a HQ building (subject to desk allocation, a Justice Collaboration Centre (JCC) or a Justice Satellite Office (JSO) – See Map. All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity).
For current MoJ employees, your base location will need to be changed to the nearest viable office (to your home postcode), either at a HQ building, JCC or JSO within the National Office Network and moved its location’s respective pay scale (any legacy arrangements/locations will need to be amended).
Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain their grade on lateral transfer.
All candidates who are currently in receipt of Mark Time / Pay Protection should ensure they are familiar with the new policy on permanent and temporary promotion which can be found on the employee intranet.
Flexible working hours
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. MoJ welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ’s Flexible Working policy.
Benefits
The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
Annual Leave
Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.
There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Training
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Networks
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Eligibility
Staff on fixed term appointments must have been recruited through fair and open competition.
Vacancies advertised “cross-government” are only open to all Civil Service employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) who were appointed on merit following a fair and open competition; or were appointed to a permanent post through an exception in the Civil Service Commissioners' rules.
Support
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- For moves to or from another employer or moves across the Civil Service this can have implications on your eligibility to carry on claiming childcare vouchers. You may however be eligible for alternative government childcare support schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. More information can be found on www.www.GOV.UK or Childcare Choices. You can determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code 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. Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order
- To Transformative Business Services (0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk);
- To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team (resourcing-management-office@justice.gov.uk);
- To the Civil Service Commission (details available here)
As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace. MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
You will be able to request reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process within the application form. If you need additional help completing the application form, please contact the TBS Recruitment Enquiries Team.
For more information on applying for a role as a candidate with a disability or long-term condition, please watch our animated videos.
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.
Redeployment Interview Scheme
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.
MoJ is able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidates will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.
Civil Service Nationality Rules
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) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families
- 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) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules
Reserve list
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
Contact Information
MoJ:
If you require any assistance please call 0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
Please quote the job reference 21150
HMPPS
If you require any assistance please call 0345 241 5358 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
Please quote the job reference 21150
Job Description Attachment
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Head of Data Sharing Hub JD Aug26.docx (Job Description Attachment)
Application form stage assessments
Experience
We will assess your experience for this role via the following methods
CV or Work History, Statement of Suitability
Statement of Suitability
Guidance for the Statement of Suitability
Please submit a statement of suitability (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
o Delivering at pace: an ability to manage projects from inception to delivery, maintaining progress, and anticipating, identifying, and responding to blockers.
o Strong leadership capability, with a proven ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve high performance, while building support, consensus and effective working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and partner organisations.
o Technical skills: Knowledge of data sharing governance procedures and documentation, and the practical steps needed to improve the efficiency of acquiring and sharing data across organisational boundaries.
o Delivering at pace: an ability to manage projects from inception to delivery, maintaining progress, and anticipating, identifying, and responding to blockers.
o Strong leadership capability, with a proven ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve high performance, while building support, consensus and effective working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and partner organisations.
o Technical skills: Knowledge of data sharing governance procedures and documentation, and the practical steps needed to improve the efficiency of acquiring and sharing data across organisational boundaries.
Evidence of Experience
CV or Work History, Statement of Suitability
Interview stage assessments
Interview Dates
Expected week commencing 14th September
Behaviours
Leadership
Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing
Level of security checks required
DBS Basic
Use of Artificial Intelligence (Al)
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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.