The Ministry of Justice has launched the search for a new director to lead the department’s change team and sit on project boards for its prisons reform and courts reform programmes.
The Senior Civil Service Pay Band 2 post, which comes with an indicative salary of £110,000, reports directly to MoJ chief finance officer Mike Driver and would see the successful candidate responsible for a 40-strong change team and be head of profession for the department’s project delivery function.
At a time when the department is embarking on a programme to deliver four new prisons as part of a £1.3bn estate reform programme, the job description for the change director stresses the importance of being able to work closely with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
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Other important attributes listed include developing project-delivery capability throughout the department, upskilling the change team so that it becomes “an effective, efficient and valued central function that brings out the best in people”, and improving the MoJ’s planning and performance management.
Writing in the candidate information pack for the role, Driver said the change director role was central part of the MoJ’s “ambitious” plans to reform the justice system and transform itself into a “smarter, simpler and more efficient” department.
“The scale and pace of the reforms is challenging and requires a large portfolio of interconnected policies, projects and business changes to be delivered successfully alongside the day to day running of the department,” he said.
Driver added that the director’s fundamental role would be to create the conditions for the successful delivery of change in the department, with a “primary focus” of “ensuring that MoJ is delivering the right changes and delivering them well”.
The closing date for applications for the role is April 26.