Digital Workforce Lead
Location: National*
Closing Date: 26 September 2025
Interviews: From 03 October 2025
Grade: 7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £63,343 - £70,725; National: £58,511 - £65,329
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 Digital Workforce Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
This is a pivotal leadership role — aligning our workforce with strategic priorities, providing data-driven insights for decision-making, ensuring compliance, and anticipating future trends. You’ll shape how we plan, resource and develop our workforce, so that Justice Digital has the skills, capacity and agility to deliver one of the most ambitious digital strategies in government.
It’s a unique opportunity to make a real impact — helping us build a modern, high-performing workforce, improving how decisions are made, and supporting leaders across Justice Digital to deliver lasting change.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Vision and Strategy:
Lead, in partnership with managers at all levels, to develop a workforce plan that ensures the right skills and capacity are in place to deliver Justice Digital’s strategic priorities.
Identify workforce planning risks and advise on approaches to manage and mitigate them.
Anticipate internal and external trends — including science, technology and society — and their impact on future workforce needs.
Leadership:
Lead and inspire the Digital Workforce team (3 SEOs and 3 HEOs), creating a culture of collaboration, development and high performance.
Drive key projects that improve how we plan and manage our workforce, build our team’s profile, and strengthen engagement with stakeholders.
Approvals Service:
Oversee approvals and business case processes, ensuring they run smoothly and build confidence in delegated authority arrangements.
Ensure compliance with governance controls (e.g. tenure, IR35, maximum day rate, value for money) and identify risks early, resolving them proactively.
Workforce Planning Service:
Lead the annual cycle of workforce planning, from initial collection during budget planning through to tracking and governance across the year.
Partner with Recruitment Delivery and Recruitment Operations teams to translate workforce plans into recruitment and resourcing actions
Embed workforce planning into the business planning cycle, so leaders understand and can act on “the who and the when".
Provide practical tools, guidance and processes that help leaders deliver effective workforce planning in their teams.
Data and Reporting:
Lead the development and use of workforce reporting tools and dashboards that give leaders actionable insight.
Provide regular reporting to organisational leaders, with a continuous improvement approach to how we use workforce data.
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.
Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
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.
Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Essential
Workforce Planning Expertise — proven experience of developing and delivering workforce planning strategies in complex organisations, ensuring the right skills and capacity are in place to meet future needs.
Data and Reporting Skills — proficiency in data analysis and in designing reporting tools/dashboards that support evidence-based decision-making.
Leadership Experience — track record of leading and motivating teams, driving change, and engaging stakeholders effectively.
Strategic Thinking — ability to align workforce planning with organisational priorities, anticipate future trends, and make clear, evidence-based recommendations.
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.
Candidates must submit a CV and answer the following question which assesses the Leadership behaviour:
‘In no more than 500 words, describe your top three achievements in leading in a workforce planning context, focusing on your personal actions and the measurable impact.’
Application Guidance
Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement
Application Guidance
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 (at level 4) during the assessment process:
Leadership
Seeing the Big Picture
Changing and Improving
Working Together
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 90 minute panel interview held via video conference.
The interview will require you to deliver a ten-minute presentation, details of which will be a minimum of five working days before the interview.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the Leadership behaviour will be conducted before the sift.
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.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
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.
Please review our Terms and 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 digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk