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On behalf of the Ministry of Justice we are looking for a Lead Delivery Manager (INSIDE IR35) for a 6-month contract. Hybrid working based in your nearest MOJ office.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent, and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public. 

Prisons Digital is establishing a new Senior Management Team (SMT) to lead one of the Ministry of Justice's largest digital transformation portfolios. The portfolio comprises 11 service areas and 26 multidisciplinary teams, delivering digital products and services that support the day-to-day running of prisons across England and Wales.

We are looking for an experienced strategic delivery leader to help establish and run the SMT as a high-performing leadership team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the effectiveness of the SMT, ensuring the team is well organised, focused on strategic priorities, able to make timely, well-informed decisions, and follows those decisions through to delivery. They will coordinate the SMT's planning, meetings and governance, enabling the team to operate effectively and make the best use of its time.

As a Lead Delivery Manager your main responsibilities will be to:

• Act as the delivery lead for the Senior Management Team (SMT), ensuring it operates as an effective, high-performing leadership team.
• Plan and facilitate the SMT's operating rhythm, including weekly stand-ups, monthly strategy days and other leadership sessions.
• Attend Service Area Check-ins, capturing actions, dependencies and decisions that require SMT attention, and ensuring they are followed through.
• Maintain a clear backlog of SMT decisions, ensuring the right issues are brought to the team at the right time and tracked through to resolution.
• Coordinate SMT agendas and forward planning, ensuring discussions focus on strategic priorities and decisions rather than operational detail.
• Ensure leadership decisions are recorded, communicated and translated into clear actions with appropriate ownership.
• Coordinate wider leadership meetings, including Senior Leadership Team (SLT) sessions where required, ensuring effective preparation, facilitation and follow-up.
• Build strong relationships across Prisons Digital to understand where leadership intervention is required and ensure issues are escalated through the appropriate governance.
• Continuously improve the SMT's ways of working, identifying opportunities to make leadership meetings and decision-making more effective.

We're looking for someone who can

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders.
• Organise and facilitate effective leadership teams and governance.
• Distil complex issues into clear decision points.
• Keep multiple priorities moving while maintaining focus on outcomes.
• Exercise sound judgement about what requires leadership attention and what can be resolved elsewhere.
• Bring structure and pace to an evolving leadership team.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, MOJ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

MOJ guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.