Data Literacy Manager
Location: National*
Closing Date: 22nd April 2025
Interviews: from 12th April 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