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Salary
The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
Working Pattern
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
Vacancy Approach
External
Location
National
Region
National
Closing Date
24-Apr-2025
Post Type
Permanent
Civil Service Grade
SEO
Number of jobs available
2
Reserve List
12 Months
Job ID
4380

Descriptions & requirements

Job description


Data Literacy Manager

Location: National* 

Interviews:  from 12th May 2025 (this may be subject to change)

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer) 

Salary: The national salary is, £41, 463 - £45,276. London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. 

 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 

The Role

We’re recruiting for two Data Literacy managers here at the Ministry of Justice, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Improvement team within the Data Directorate. 

We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data, and analysis. In the Data Directorate, we provide high-quality data and analysis to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate, and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.  

We create a culture in which people are empowered with data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting-edge tools, techniques, and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.  We launched our data strategy for MoJ and are working on improvements across data governance, architecture, literacy, culture, dissemination and linking. 

You can read more about the Data Strategy in this blog post.  

Data literacy is the ability to read, write, communicate and reason with data. This enables our colleagues to ask the right questions of data, build knowledge, make decisions and communicate meaning to others.

As the Data Literacy manager, you will support the team in implementing data literacy projects across the business, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure the initiatives are coherent, scalable, and adaptable to the organisation's changing needs.

Key Responsibilities: 

•             Advocating for the improvement of data across the Ministry of Justice building strong relationships to collaboratively achieve shared strategic goals 

•             Acting as a translator across technical and non-technical areas to ensure effective problem definition and benefits realisation to establish a common view of the data we do/should/could collect, how to manage it, and how to utilise it to achieve improved outcomes 

•             Developing and maintaining a range of products to enable teams to upskill in the Data Literacy area, ensuring the offer is clear, scalable and adaptable to accommodate the diverse needs of the organisation. 

•             Identifying best practice examples of change management to build a positive data culture to implement data literacy initiatives

•             Supporting the creation and coordination of internal data literacy communities and forums, as well as assisting their facilitation

•             Assisting with the administration and expansion of the cross-government data literacy working group

•             Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the following considerations are part of their work: metadata, data architecture, data sharing, data quality, data storage, data security and privacy, information assurance, data integration and interoperability 

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

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.

Person Specification 

Essential 

•             Stakeholder management: Experience of building relationships across organisations and teams, collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders to understand user needs and advocating/influencing the need for data/data literacy initiatives.  

•             Continuous learning and development: Actively ensures ongoing learning about current data trends and emerging technologies to shape and drive forward data literacy initiatives

•             Continuous improvement: ability to identify and prototype changes to services, tools or training for improved outcomes.

•             Communicating and influencing: Ability to articulate and promote the strategic direction of work, particularly in the realm of data literacy and digital and technology.

•             Adaptability: Highly adaptable in changing circumstances, capable of altering approaches to address emerging issues and risks while maintaining focus on data literacy goals.

•             Organisational skills: the ability to keep projects on track, with an appreciation of programme/project management tools and techniques, including monitoring, evaluation and reporting 

How to Apply

Candidates must submit an anonymised CV and a personal statement (up to 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

We are recruiting using the Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Strengths  and the following Behaviours during the assessment process: 

•             Seeing the Big Picture 

•             Changing and Improving 

•             Communicating and Influencing 

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. 

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.uk 

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 role: 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.

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.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

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.

For more information on applying for a role as a candidate with a disability or long-term condition, please watch our animated videos.

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.

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.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

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

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

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
Candidates must submit an anonymised CV and a personal statement (up to 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification.
Evidence of Experience
CV or Work History, Statement of Suitability

Interview stage assessments

Interview Dates
Expected from 12th May 2025 (this may be subject to change)
Behaviours
Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Changing and Improving
Strengths
Strengths will be assessed but these are not shared in advance. To learn more about Strengths and how they are assessed please click here.

Other Assessments

Which assessment methods will be used?
Presentation
Use of Artificial Intelligence (Al)
You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application, including your CV, statement of suitability and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Level of security checks required
Baseline Personnal Security Standard (BPSS)