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On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a Contract Exit Manager (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract based remote with ad hoc travel to London

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.

We are recruiting for a Contract Exit Manager to work alongside Commercial, Contract, Service and Delivery Managers within the Technology Services Team. 

The key purpose of the Contract Exit Manager is to work with incumbent suppliers to ensure the incumbent administers the orderly and efficient ending of service provision and the transition of the services to in-house teams or a replacement supplier on the expiry of the Service Agreement

As a Contract Exit manager, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Develop and finalise with the incumbent supplier's Exit Plan including seeking agreement on the provision of Termination Services. Termination Services are likely to include: a. Data provision - IT/technology, processes/manuals, service data, support contracts, staff data, facilities b. Staff transfer process (e.g. staff consultation, staff data, redundancy costs) c. Other Termination Services, e.g. access to incumbent personnel, provision of knowledge transfer/shadowing, provision of subject matter experts for technical meetings etc.
• Work closely with Commercial to agree on any yet-to-be-defined charges for Termination Services and facilitate agreement of those dependencies to be delivered by the incumbent that is required by the replacement supplier in the Implementation of the new service.
• Responsible for defining and agreeing the incumbent explicit exit-related accountabilities and responsibilities to ensure transparency of ownership.
• Review replacement supplier deliverables from an exit perspective to ensure the new supplier’s Implementation is integrated and in line with the agreed Exit Plan.
• Provide feedback comments for the replacement supplier as required.
• Manage the progress of the incumbent against the agreed Exit Plan, Termination Services and external dependencies.
• Manage the delivery of any MoJ dependencies relating to the agreed Exit Plan.
• Provide MoJ exit contribution to Exit Governance Boards.
• Understand any changing exit-related requirements and work with the incumbent to assess the impact of the change.
• Manage small changes this may just involve minor amendments with agreement to the Exit plan.
• Manage major changes this may require delivering any contribution required for Contract Change Notices that impact the Exit Plan, Termination Services and/or external dependencies.

Essential:

• Proven extensive experience in developing exit plans with suppliers, including exit arrangements for data provision, staff transfers, hardware decommissioning and other exit service provisions including access to exiting personnel and knowledge sharing.
• Proven experience in defining and agreeing exit-related accountabilities and responsibilities for the existing supplier and holding the supplier to account in respect of those responsibilities and any agreed deliverables.
• Proven ability to manage complex and potentially strained supplier relationships during the period of exit, including demonstrable ability to defuse and dissolve conflict between involved parties.
• Strong commercial and supplier management skills to encourage collaborative working across all parties.
• PRINCE2 or MSP and MCIPS.
• Experience in leading large-scale migrations and technology rollouts.
• Experience in large-scale public-sector IT programme delivery (£30m+ value)

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.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice 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 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".