Recruitment and Appointments Manager (Ref: 91438)

Ministry of Justice

Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 29th October 2024

 

Details

Reference number

374377

Salary

£45,824 - £50,039
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer
SEO

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Administration / Corporate Support
Operational Delivery

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

This position is based at 10 SOUTH COLONNADE LONDON, E14 4PU

Job summary

Please refer to Job Description

Job description

Recruitment and Appointments Manager

SEO, 37 hours a week

This vacancy is for an SEO role with the Independent Monitoring Board and Lay Observers, a MoJ ALB, providing support to IMB members and Lay Observers, who are independent, publicly appointed, unpaid volunteers based in prisons, immigration removal centres, short-term holding facilities and court settings in the UK.

Based: 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf.

Overview:

Members of the Independent Monitoring Boards are unpaid public appointees who provide statutory, independent scrutiny of the treatment and care of people in prisons and immigration detention. They are appointed by ministers and operate in prisons and Young Offender Institutions (run by HM Prison and Probation Service - MOJ), in immigration removal centres, various short-term holding facilities and on repatriation flights for those being removed from the UK (run by the Home Office).

Lay Observers are also unpaid public appointees, whose responsibility it is to check on the welfare of detained people in court custody suites and while they are travelling in the care and custody of escort contractors.

Summary:

You will develop and deliver improvements within the recruitment and appointments process. This will include supporting the staff who deliver this process to deliver innovative approaches to public appointee recruitment, through matrix management, working with members to embed these changes.

You will ensure that members are appointed and supported in accordance with the appropriate legislations and policies. This will include the development of a framework to ensure that delivery is compliant with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. Ensuring that the recruitment process is efficient and effective in supporting the work of the IMBs and LOs. There is also an expectation of working with external stakeholders to deliver system wide improvements.  

Responsibilities include:

  • Managing a team as well as driving performance through matrix management. 
  • Operationalising the recruitment and appointment strategy and business plan objectives for both IMBs and LOs.
  • Responsible for developing and delivering the recruitment and appointments process and ensuring the relevant security and conflicts checks are conducted for IMBs and LOs.
  • Responsible for Board and member compliance processes being met e.g. elections etc and quality assured.
  • Working with others to identify gaps in recruitment and appointment policies and producing materials to fill these.
  • Establishing monitoring tools and helping others to plan their work in line with business objectives.
  • Being a point of escalation for dealing with matters linked to recruitment and re-/appointments, including matters that arise during appointees’ ongoing membership.
  • Identifying problems at an early stage and seek to resolve these before they develop.
  • Building positive working relationships with colleagues, senior leaders and public appointees even when dealing with potentially contentious issues.
  • Focusing on delivering high levels of customer service.
  • Ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion is considered during the application of all tasks and championed during interaction with the membership.
  • Performing other job-related duties as required.

Essential Criteria:

 

  • Experience of working with Public Appointees.
  • Experience of working in recruitment within the Public Sector.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
Alongside your salary of £45,824, Ministry of Justice contributes £13,275 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

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and 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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
  • Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
  • Telephone : 0845 241 5359

Recruitment team

  • Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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