Digital Workforce Officer (Ref: 92267)
Ministry of Justice
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Digital Workforce Officer
Location: National*
Closing Date: 28 November 2024
Interviews: from 06 December 2024
Grade: HEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £38,661 - £42,019; National: £34,140 - £37,105
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-Time, Flexible Working
Contract Type: 2 year FTA
Vacancy number: 92267
*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Digital Workforce Officer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
When our managers want to recruit great people for their team, working on some of the largest technology programmes in the Civil Service, they will come to you looking for expert advice, solutions and guidance. You will enjoy partnering and crafting relationships and will be someone who takes pride in providing a slick workforce planning experience.
As a Digital Workforce Officer, you will belong to a warm and welcoming team that works at pace, collaborating and contributing to a range of exciting change projects and sit as part of our broader Strategy & Operations team. We are responsible for enabling our colleagues to get on with delivery by instilling a culture of accountability, value for money and commerciality across Justice Digital, and we want to make it a great place to work.
What will your day look like? You’ll be blending your people management skills and passion for delivering an outstanding customer experience with your love of data and information. It’s crucial that you’re confident in spreadsheet analysis, and turning this into engaging and informative content for our senior management and directors. Every day is slightly different from the last, with new and exciting projects to get involved with; we’re a team that pride ourselves on welcoming and encouraging change and innovation, so someone with big ideas and bold goals will surely succeed.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our MOJ Digital strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Workforce Planning
- Support the Digital Workforce Manager to analyse and manipulate data, ensuring the business has access to clear and accurate metrics at all times, allowing for data-led decision making at all levels.
- Facilitate collaboration between Heads of Professions, Leaders, Hiring Managers and the Recruitment Team to plan, monitor and deliver hiring objectives within agreed timeframes, proactively identifying and managing risks.
- Support the Digital Workforce Manager to perform end-to-end annual workforce planning; from collection during annual budget planning to tracking and governance throughout the plan year, including headcount, in order to support business objectives.
- Support the Digital Workforce Manager, along with SMT and Finance, to forecast workforce growth, establishing targets and providing monthly reports on progress and risk.
- Provide relevant tools and processes, in partner with the Recruitment Team, to drive strategic recruitment that delivers the right people at the right time, and at the right cost
- Respond to workforce-related queries and directing to Recruitment, and wider People Team colleagues, where appropriate.
Contingent Labour
- Support the continued development of the Business Case Writing process for Contingent Labour requests, involving ownership for writing contractor business cases across Justice Digital.
- Ensure compliance with governance and approval processes to provide the best value for money when deploying a contingent labour resource.
- Manage the end to end lifecycle of Contingent Labour resources within Justice Digital, monitoring tenure lengths and highlighting risks. Ensure contingent labour usage is effective, within framework and compliant in use.
- Support and facilitate the fortnightly Business Case review meeting, reporting outcomes and delivering responses back to the business in a professional, supportive and engaging manner.
Reporting
- Confidently analyse and manipulate data to ensure the business have access to clear and accurate metrics at all times, allowing for data-led decision making across the business.
- Track the progress of recruitment activity against workforce plans and provide accurate updates to stakeholders at all levels; confidently communicating these reports often to Senior stakeholders in an easy to understand way.
- Effectively use reporting tools and dashboards to support business decision making and provide ad-hoc analytics to SMT, HoPs/Leads and Managers.
- Distribute a range of regular reports that support the wider Recruitment & People Teams, monitoring responses and outcomes.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience in workforce planning, recruitment/resourcing or similar people-related functions
- Experience managing large data sets and reporting to senior stakeholders
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
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 D&I Strategy.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
Person specification
Benefits
- 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
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How to Apply
Candidates must submit a CV and Cover Letter which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above:
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your experience in a workforce planning, recruitment/resourcing or similar people-related function will be conducted prior to the sift.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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).
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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
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