Deputy Director, Employee Experience

This is a unique and significant leadership role at the heart of the MoJ’s People Function. The successful candidate will be instrumental in leading and executing a comprehensive strategy to improve the overall experience of the MoJ workforce, that brings together people and expertise from across the Department, Civil Service, and external partners. This role will ensure that MoJ transforms and sets its strategic direction for employee experience and coordinates this across the Civil Service strategies ensuring that we are a model employer. A core strategy will be setting the standards for inclusive workplaces so that we can attract the right people with the right mix of skills and experience, thereby ensuring the department has a diverse workforce that delivers for citizens.
We are looking for an experienced leader with deep HR and employee experience delivery expertise in an operational context, skills, and a track record in building and leading motivated, diverse, skilled teams.
The role holder will need to be enthusiastic about working collaboratively with other operational leaders to help teams deliver complex systems and policy transformation.
The Deputy Director, Employee Experience will lead a geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary team that holds a high-profile agenda focused on the implementation of the commitments set out in the MoJ People Strategy, with a particular focus on building a “culture rooted in our values”.
This is a Nationally based role, This is a challenging role which requires a strong understanding of the legal, political, and social factors that influence the Civil Service and its organisations. The postholder must be a confident, inclusive leader who understand how to build and motivate a high performing team that delivers strategic work and expert advice to support MoJ to deliver its objectives.
MoJ People Function is transforming the way it delivers services for its customers. The successful candidate will be expected to reshape the work of the team to include handling of wider policy issues associated with equality. The role holder will need excellent people and change management skills while delivering an important and complex programme of transformation. As the team evolves, new ways of working will be required; the Deputy Director Employee Experience must role model this change, meeting customers’ needs while building HR capability and developing talent within the team.
The role will involve building strong working relationships and working strategically with senior business leaders. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills are essential, as well as a proven ability to influence at the highest level. The role holder will build and maintain a close network of senior HR professionals and people across the Department and wider Civil Service responsible for ensuring that their culture is one in which Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is designed in, representative of the public we serve and inclusive allowing everyone to make the most of their talent and be the best of themselves in the workplace. They will also need to work closely with other government Departments to ensure that good practice is shared, and cross-government requirements are met.
The role holder is required to provide expert counsel on sensitive issues, working with senior leaders, internal communications, Press Office, legal and HR specialists to advise at pace. The role also oversees development of the role of the Professional Behaviours Champion, Wellbeing Champion, and implementation of audit requirements.
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.
Diversity & Inclusion
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 Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
Additional Information
Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Leadership
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Working Together
+ Changing and Improving, For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
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)
+ 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
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Alongside your salary of £76,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ Access to learning and development
+ A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
+ A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
+ A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
+ Annual Leave
+ Public Holidays
+ Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ