Ministry of Justice

Head of Justice System Modelling

The Role

This role reports to Chris Drane, the Director of Analysis, and sits in the Analysis Directorate. The role has direct line management of 4 x G6s with an overall leadership span of around 40 FTE. The postholder will be responsible for a programme of analysis that is business critical to the department. The team leads on analysis and modelling of the justice system

as a whole. It provides the department with high quality modelling and analysis on future demand in the criminal justice system from courts to probation, as well as demand into civil and family courts and tribunals, and insightful analysis to support understanding of what is happening in the system. The work is crucial for departmental decision making on managing the demand in courts, prisons and probation, as well as decisions about policies related to courts.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver a high-profile programme of analytical work on demand into courts, prisons and probation, and the drivers of that demand. This includes the department’s business critical projections of the prison population, court demand and income. The jobholder will deliver the analytical work to support the Independent Review of Criminal Courts and court-related policies. The work is business critical for the department’s decision-making on how to manage demand in the justice system based on robust analysis and evidence, while also building in operational and policy intelligence. The jobholder will also be responsible for leading the department’s liaison with Home Office, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), No10 and HM Treasury (HMT) to ensure there is a shared cross government understanding of demand into the CJS.
• Develop a new CJS insights function to enable rapid analysis and insight on what is currently happening in the criminal justice system.
• Lead the team providing modelling and analysis on departmental income from court fees and fines to inform the department on likely future income.
• Lead the team to provide modelling of demand into the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) from Lasting Power of Attorney applications as well as ad hoc analysis such as analysis of deputyships
• Support and lead the team in maintaining effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the department, including Ministers and senior policy and operational leaders at board level. Ability to communicate complex modelling and forecasting clearly to a very senior audience of non-specialists is essential.
• Foster an inclusive, supportive and high performing culture.

Head of Agile, Analytical Improvements and Review

The Role

This role reports to Chris Drane, the Director of Analysis, and sits in the Analysis Directorate. The role has direct line management of 6 x G6s with an overall leadership span of around 40 FTE. The team provide analytical support across the department through use of flexible resource providing an analytical quality assurance service and making innovative use of new data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of analysis. The team’s key focus is on the department’s most business-critical analysis. 

The post holder will play a crucial role in prioritising flexible resource to facilitate delivery of business-critical analysis, reviewing and challenging business-critical analysis and exploring better ways to undertake analysis. 

They will need to work in a multi-disciplinary manner, in close partnership with Policy Directors and the Director of Analysis to understand departmental priorities, and with data teams to exploit potential new services and data flows.  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team that provides support for teams undertaking business-critical analysis through the allocation of flexible resource, undertaking analytical assurance and innovating in the use of new data.

• Lead in developing and delivering a team that provides flexible resource for projects currently not deliverable due to resource constraints within established analytical teams. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the right projects are prioritised and resources are effectively allocated to facilitate analytical teams delivering their business-critical work.

• Lead in developing and delivering a strategy that ensures the departments business-critical analysis is fit for purpose, through assurance of analysis that underpins the departments most important decisions. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring analysis is robust and the risks and uncertainties are understood and communicated effectively.  

•  Lead in developing and delivering a strategy through which fundamental knowledge gaps are filled, improving the precision, consistency and understanding of our analytical estimates.

• Create a way of working where departmental analytical needs are prioritised: the justice system is in a state of flux and in turn business priorities rapidly change with urgent analysis often needed to support this. The post holder will need to build a team that has the capability, expertise and knowledge to facilitate this flexible way of working.  

• Develop productive relationships with a range of stakeholders aimed at delivering more impactful analysis, including building close working relationships with Policy Directors to understand their needs and Service Transformation colleagues to ensure the right data underpins key decisions.

• Foster an inclusive, supportive and high performing culture.