85472 - Judicial Appointments Commission - Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager
Judicial Appointments Commission - Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO)
Are you passionate about building strong and collaborative stakeholder relationships? Is delivering impactful and inspiring remote events your forte? Do you want to contribute to supporting the creation of a judiciary that better represents the society it serves? If the answer is yes, you could be exactly who we are seeking.
The Role
We’re looking for a Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO) to help us reach and connect with our target audiences. As an independent public body, the Judicial Appointments Commission is responsible for designing, planning, and running recruitment campaigns to select judges in the courts and tribunals, up to and including the High Court, as well as non-legal tribunal members. You can read more about our work on our website: http://judicialappointments.gov.uk
With a new recruitment campaign launched every couple of weeks, and statutory responsibilities to make sure we select candidates on merit and through fair and open competition, it’s essential that our processes are robust, inclusive, and attractive to candidates from the widest possible backgrounds. It’s also essential that our audiences and stakeholders understand our work and our commitment to supporting the creation of a more diverse judiciary. Our Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager plays a vital role in helping us to achieve that ambition.
As part of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach and Research (TOR) team, who have responsibility for supporting judicial applicants from underrepresented groups, the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager will lead key projects aimed at improving judicial diversity. They will play a central role in coordinating our engagement with our target audiences, managing our rolling stakeholder events calendar, and leading on the design, delivery, and evaluation of remote outreach events.
The successful applicant will lead promotion of our initiatives across a range of partners and stakeholders to encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to consider applying for judicial appointment. The role will also play an important part in supporting the Targeted Outreach Team’s Judicial Guide Scheme – which matches experienced judges with candidates from diverse backgrounds during their application journey.
You can read more about the work of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach Team here: Targeted Outreach and Research Team – Judicial Appointments Commission.
This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys working in a small but dynamic team, collaborating with colleagues who are passionate about the JAC’s mission.
Main Responsibilities
Reporting to the Senior Project Manager of the Targeted Outreach and Research team, your main responsibilities will be to:
• Lead stakeholder interaction for the Targeted Outreach team by developing a programme of rolling outreach and engagement activities that links to the judicial recruitment programme and TOR initiatives.
• Ensure stakeholders are kept appropriately informed on the teams work and able to constructively contribute their perspective and specialist input.
• Maintain and implement a stakeholder strategy and action plan to direct engagement of existing and emerging stakeholders. Ensure team activities align with JAC diversity strategy and complement outreach and engagement work undertaken elsewhere in the JAC and wider MoJ.
• Oversee liaison with external stakeholders to arrange TOR team attendance at remote outreach events, draft content for outreach briefings, prepare materials for use at outreach events and deliver presentations.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate audience feedback tools and data, to support and enhance outreach with user led insights.
• Work with partners in the legal professions, Judicial Office and JAC to support a coordinated approach to candidate development programmes and other diversity initiatives, including development of new resources for potential candidates to familiarise themselves with the selection process.
• Support new strands of research focussed on the Commission’s emerging priorities around neurodiverse candidates and better understanding barriers for black candidates.
• Collaborate and coordinate with stakeholders to develop and engage existing and new candidate pools, prioritising underrepresented and harder to reach groups.
• Work with the Director of Training for the TOR Judicial Guide Scheme to deliver, evaluate and expand the training offer for volunteer judges.
• Manage and update corresponding stakeholder engagement tools and databases.
• Work with statisticians to support the monitoring of progress of Targeted Outreach participants through the JAC selection process.
We are a small team who work collaboratively, and the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager may need to get involved in other projects and work beyond what is listed above to support the wider TOR team (and wider organisation).
Essential Criteria
• Experience of delivering informative events, sessions, or workshops for varied audiences.
• Excellent IT proficiency, including experience utilising video conferencing platforms to deliver remote events and garner feedback.
• Experience of engaging and communicating confidently with senior staff and stakeholders, building constructive relationships with a variety of internal and external partners and other stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to confidently present to public audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects with varied deadlines.
• Strong team working skills and ability to work flexibly to support a small team.
• Strong IT and digital skills, including the ability to quickly learn to use unfamiliar software to a good standard, with appropriate training.
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working with the judiciary.
• Experience of diversity monitoring data collection and analysis.
What we can offer you
We offer a range of benefits including an attractive annual leave allowance, flexible and hybrid working opportunities, and choice of pension schemes. We actively encourage all staff to undertake learning and development as part of their personal objectives.
While the JAC is an independent executive non-departmental public body, we are considered an arms-length body of the Ministry of Justice and share many of the same policies, processes and terms and conditions as Civil Servants employed directly by the MoJ. This includes being part of the MoJ pay remit, enabling transferees from other government departments to retain their continuity of service and Civil Service Pension arrangements.
Though located at Clive House, Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ JAC staff are currently working in a hybrid way with some days in the office and some days working remotely. It will be necessary for the successful postholder to work at the JAC location regularly to support business need.
Recruitment Process
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the recruitment process:
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Application process
• Your CV
• A statement of suitability detailing the relevant experience and skills you have that would make you suitable for the post (500 words max).
• Written evidence of the 2 core behaviours for this role: Communicating and Influencing and Working Together (250 words per behaviour)
Sift
Applications will be sifted based on the CV, Statement of Suitability and the 2 behaviours: Communicating and Influencing and Working Together.
Interview
At interview you we will assess you against 3 behaviours: Communicating and influencing, Working Together, and Delivering at Pace. You will also be asked about your experience. You can find out more about the Civil Service success profiles here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
Applicants invited for interview may be required to undertake a brief presentation on the day as part of the selection process. More details will be provided if you are invited to interview.
Interviews are expected to take place from late April/ early May 2024.
Interviews may be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. More details on the arrangements will be provided to candidates invited to interview.
Reserve List
As well as appointing to the vacancy listed above, we may place other candidates on a 12-month reserve list for future vacancies.
Further Information
If after reading this job description you require any further information, please contact Nikita Sharma, Head of Targeted Outreach and Research, at Nikita.Sharma@judicialappointments.gov.uk
If you have any questions about the recruitment campaign, or any terms and conditions relating to the role, please contact the JAC Recruitment Team:
Recruitment@judicialappointments.gov
Working Arrangements & Further Information
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre-employment checks.
Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain their grade on lateral transfer.
All candidates who are currently in receipt of Mark Time / Pay Protection should ensure they are familiar with the new policy on permanent and temporary promotion which can be found on the employee intranet.
Flexible working hours
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. MoJ welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ’s Flexible Working policy.
Benefits
The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
Annual Leave
Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.
There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Training
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Networks
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Support
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- For moves to or from another employer or moves across the Civil Service this can have implications on your eligibility to carry on claiming childcare vouchers. You may however be eligible for alternative government childcare support schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. More information can be found on GOV.UK or Childcare Choices. You can determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order
- To Shared Service Connected Ltd (0845 241 5358 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com);
- To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team (resourcing-management-office@justice.gov.uk);
- To the Civil Service Commission (details available here)
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace. MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
For more information on applying for a role as a candidate with a disability or long-term condition, please see our Disability Confident Scheme Frequently Asked Questions webpage.
You will be able to request reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process within the application form. If you need additional help completing the application form, please contact the SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team.
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.
Interviews may be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. More details on the arrangements will be provided to candidates invited to interview.
03/04/2024, 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 - 85472.
If after reading this job description you require any further information, please contact Nikita Sharma, Head of Targeted Outreach and Research, at Nikita.Sharma@judicialappointments.gov.uk
If you have any questions about the recruitment campaign, or any terms and conditions relating to the role, please contact the JAC Recruitment Team:
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
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.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
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.