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Job Summary
This is a Nationally based role
Job Description
The Role
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is seeking an outstanding Deputy Director to lead the Research Insight and Analysis Division within the Strategy and Analysis Directorate.
This Deputy Director role provides strategic leadership and delivery oversight for HMCTS’ modelling, forecasting, and research (social, behavioural, operational and evaluation), insight capability. The DD will ensure that HMCTS has robust, evidence-based insight to underpin critical decisions on resource allocation, judicial planning, operational performance, and service design.
Key Responsibilities
The post-holder will:
• provide visible leadership across HMCTS and MoJ, in particular leading HMCTS’ social research portfolio across crime, civil, family, and tribunals, fostering collaboration between analytical teams and with others in different professions including strategic finance, service teams, central operations, and policy colleagues.
• lead the research, evaluation, modelling and analysis HMCTS will need when developing and implementing key policy and legislative changes, including to housing dispute resolution, immigration and asylum, employment rights and the agreed recommendations from the Independent Review of Criminal Courts (IRCC).
• oversee the development and application of sophisticated techniques to create modelling that will support annual allocations, in-year organisational performance management, and judicial capacity forecasting.
• develop innovative and advanced methods for embedding evidence into HMCTS services, including speech and survey analytics, data science, and behavioural insight.
• own HMCTS’ evaluation portfolio, ensuring HMCTS is learning from past initiatives and is set up to learn from future programmes.
• help lead the Strategy and Analysis Directorate, setting coherent strategic direction, maintaining a high-capability team and creating the conditions for a supportive team culture that prizes curiosity and collaboration.
The Role
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is seeking an outstanding Deputy Director to lead the Research Insight and Analysis Division within the Strategy and Analysis Directorate.
This Deputy Director role provides strategic leadership and delivery oversight for HMCTS’ modelling, forecasting, and research (social, behavioural, operational and evaluation), insight capability. The DD will ensure that HMCTS has robust, evidence-based insight to underpin critical decisions on resource allocation, judicial planning, operational performance, and service design.
The Post-holder Will
• provide visible leadership across HMCTS and MoJ, in particular leading HMCTS’ social research portfolio across crime, civil, family, and tribunals, fostering collaboration between analytical teams and with others in different professions including strategic finance, service teams, central operations, and policy colleagues.
• lead the research, evaluation, modelling and analysis HMCTS will need when developing and implementing key policy and legislative changes, including to housing dispute resolution, immigration and asylum, employment rights and the agreed recommendations from the Independent Review of Criminal Courts (IRCC).
• oversee the development and application of sophisticated techniques to create modelling that will support annual allocations, in-year organisational performance management, and judicial capacity forecasting.
• develop innovative and advanced methods for embedding evidence into HMCTS services, including speech and survey analytics, data science, and behavioural insight.
• own HMCTS’ evaluation portfolio, ensuring HMCTS is learning from past initiatives and is set up to learn from future programmes.
• help lead the Strategy and Analysis Directorate, setting coherent strategic direction, maintaining a high-capability team and creating the conditions for a supportive team culture that prizes curiosity and collaboration.
Person specification
For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions
Alongside your salary of £86,000, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £24,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
• 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
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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.
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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If 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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Location: London, GB