74765 - Digital Workforce Manager

The national salary range is £37,683 - £41,506, London salary range is £43,647 - £48,067. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
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We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Digital Workforce Manager

Location: National* 

Closing Date: 28th May 2023

Interviews: 8th June 2023 

Grade: SEO

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

Salary: £43,647 - £48,067 (London)- £37,683 - £41,506 (National) 

Working pattern: Full Time/Part Time/Flexible Working

Contract Type: Permanent 

Vacancy number: [Oleeo number] 

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE

The Role

We’re recruiting for 2 Digital Workforce Managers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Recruitment team. 

When our managers want to recruit great people for their team, working on some of the largest technology programmes in the Civil Service, they will come to you looking for expert advice, solutions and guidance. You will enjoy partnering and crafting relationships and will be someone who takes pride in contributing to a slick, great hiring experience. 

As a Digital Workforce Manager you will belong to a warm and welcoming team that works at pace, collaborating and contributing to a range of exciting data driven change projects and sit as part of our broader Strategy & Operations team. We are responsible for enabling our colleagues to get on with delivery by instilling a culture of accountability, value for money and commerciality across Justice Digital and we pride ourselves on making it a great place to work. 

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Justice Digital Strategy 

Key Responsibilities:

Workforce Planning

  • Working with SMT, HoPs/Leads & Managers at all levels across Justice Digital to support them in determining their people needs, both “the who and the when;
  • Collaborate with these business partners and the wider Recruitment function to prioritise, plan, monitor and deliver hiring objectives within agreed timeframes, proactively identifying and managing risks;
  • Manage and support the end-to-end cycle of annual workforce planning from collection during annual budget planning to tracking and governance throughout the plan year, including headcount in order to support business objectives;
  • Work with SMT and Finance to forecast workforce growth, establishing targets and providing monthly reports on progress and risk;
  • Develop and implement wider workforce planning and demand forecasting processes and best practice in partnership with SMT, HoPs/Leads, Managers, Budget/Finance teams, the Workforce Data Service team & Recruiters;
  • Provide relevant guidance, tools and processes, and collaborate within the Recruitment Squads, to drive strategic recruitment that delivers the right people at the right time and at the right cost; 

Business Cases

  • Manage the business case approvals process, including the tracking and reporting of conditions and outcomes, ensuring a quality service that requires minimal input from Managers;
  • Development and implementation of Business Case Extension Writing service, involving ownership for writing contractor business case extensions across Justice Digital;
  • Integration of business case submissions within Recruitments Squads to ensure timely visibility of approval decisions and subsequent prioritisation of requests. 

Reporting

  • Effectively use reporting tools and dashboards to generate workforce planning related analysis that provides insight and guidance to the business to support their decision making;
  • Provide ad-hoc workforce planning analytics to SMT, HoPs/Leads and Managers;
  • Develop and produce a range of regular reports that support the wider Recruitment & People Teams. 

If this feels like an exciting opportunity, 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.
  • We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning
  • 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
  • Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
  • 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.
  • Option to buy or sell annual leave
  • 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 Careers & 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.
  • Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
  • Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym. 

Person Specification 

Essential 

  • Experience in a workforce planning, recruitment/resourcing or similar people-related function;
  • Data confident - comprehensive understanding of Google Suite and Microsoft Office and comfortable managing high volumes of data manipulation and subsequent analysis;
  • Demonstration of the following Civil Service Behaviours at Level 3: 
  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Leadership 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance 

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of 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. 

How to Apply 

Candidates must submit A CV and personal statement which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process: 

  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Leadership 

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel. 

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference. 

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on Experience  will be conducted prior to the sift. 

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements. 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

28/05/2023, 23:55 hours.

If you require any assistance please call 0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 74765.

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

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 are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oWwenfwN&s=Civil_Service_jobs.

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

This Vacancy is closed to applications.