1442 - BOLD, Reducing Reoffending, Senior Policy Adviser in Prison Policy & Data Directorate

Where appropriate, policy professionals based in either office are supported in travelling to work with colleagues in the other head office location. Our commitment to hybrid working continues to ensure that the geographical dispersion of talent drives exceptional policymaking.

Ways of Working
At the MoJ we believe and promote alternative ways of working, these roles are available as:

· Full-time

· Flexible working patterns

· Flexible working arrangements between base locations, MoJ Hubs and home.

MoJ is the largest government department, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £10 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.

Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice

The Work of the Data Directorate

While this is a Data Directorate post, it sits within the policy profession with a management line within the Reducing Reoffending team in Prisons Policy Directorate. The data directorate are a multi-disciplinary directorate that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice. The team works in a dynamic and fast-paced context, with skills in heavy demand across the department, including delivery of insights and technical capability that directly influence operational and policy decisions.

The Work of the Prison Policy Directorate
Prisons policy is one of the most interesting and challenging areas of public policy. It operates at the sharp end of a range of wider social policy issues, with those who end up in prison disproportionately likely to have endured adverse childhood experiences, to come from minority ethnic communities, to have substance misuse or mental health issues, and to live in poverty. Their time in prison is an opportunity to support these individuals to transform their lives by desisting from crime, and we work with operational colleagues and across government to improve prisons' ability to do this.

The Prisoner Outcomes, Resettlement and Reoffending Division - leading on reducing reoffending and enabling those with a history of offending to better reintegrate into society. Reoffending costs society an estimated £22.7bn annually (adjusted for current prices), and our division is at the heart of the government's efforts to address this, by supporting offenders to rehabilitate and integrate into society. This not only transforms lives, it also reduces reoffending by breaking the cycle of crime and protects the public by preventing the creation of future victims.

Existing Civil Servants will have their salary calculated in accordance with the Department's pay on transfer / pay on promotion rules.