90749 - Associate Product Manager
Associate Product Manager
Location: National*
Interviews: w/c 14th October 2024
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £45,824 - £50,039 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,251)
National: £39,868 - £43,535 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,057)
Working pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 90749
*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 a number of Associate Product Managers here at Justice Digital.
This role aligns against the Associate Product Manager role from the Government Digital and Data Framework
We are recruiting for roles within our Prisons Digital and Technology Services team.
Come and join a multi-disciplinary team researching, designing and building a service that’s core to prison regime, enabling a prisoners’ release into the community at the right time with the right people assisting their journey or supporting the development of our critical ServiceNow platform that supports the organisation in providing a seamless and consistent support experience for our front-line colleagues.
The work is challenging, important and rewarding. It is an opportunity to work with committed and talented product, delivery, research, tech and design specialists, plus prison staff, who share a vision for making better prisons through the smarter digital services. You’ll be line managed by an experienced Product Manager to develop your product management skills and toolkit.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Associate Product Managers manage subsets of features or components of a product in either its prototype state or once it is live and being incrementally improved. You will be learning basic product management techniques such as;
- Being aware of Agile methodology, product management and the ways to apply the principles in practice. Can support the immediate team understand the value and priorities
- Representing users internally, assisting the team in designing and developing user focussed services by helping to plan, coordinate and conduct user research, compiling results into user insights and product improvements
- Works with the Product Manager to understand (and possibly set) the scope, direction and continual improvement of a product or a feature within a product.
- Being aware of the wider strategy of your product area. Works with more senior PMs to ensure alignment with product strategy.
- Investing in developing yourself, learning the product role and having a mentor; becoming/being an expert in product ownership.
- Engaging with stakeholders and communicating credibly (both internally and externally) with other PMs, the wider capability team, Subject Matter Experts and users of products etc. Is actively engaged in the Product Community.
- Understanding the policies for their product area, ensuring that you meet the policy intent
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
- Product Ownership - Awareness of tools, terms and concepts needed to deliver a product. Understands how to define the minimum viable product and make decisions about priorities. Capable of working with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
- Problem Ownership - Understand and identify problems, analyse and help to identify appropriate solutions, consulting specialists where required. Determine the appropriate remedies, assist with implementation and measure effectiveness.
- User Focus - Understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence. Able to use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes. Puts users first and can manage competing priorities.
- Agile working - Is aware of and understands agile methodology and how to apply the agile mindset to all aspects of their work. Has the ability to work in a fast paced, evolving environment and understands how iterative method and flexible approach enables rapid delivery.
- Working Within Constraints - Understand the value of technical, policy, legislative, regulatory and operational constraints, and find the best solution for users to meet intent.
- Lifecycle perspective - understand how the needs of the team and the product vary across the stages of the product life cycle
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
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.
How to Apply
Candidates must submit CV and Cover Letter (500 words max) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
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 during the assessment process:
- Communication and influencing
- Making effective decisions
- Changing and improving
- Working together
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
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, which may include a task, held via video conference.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on Product Ownership and Agile Working 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.
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 recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
London: £45,824 - £50,039 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,251)
National: £39,868 - £43,535 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,057)
03/10/2024, 23:55 hours.
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.
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
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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.
Interview stage assessments
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.
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.