HM Courts and Tribunals Service

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• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the job

Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

These are exciting times at HM Court and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). As an agency of the MoJ, we support the judiciary across England and Wales to deliver justice by running courts and tribunals and processing outcomes, and we are looking for talented people to help us achieve our ambitions. It will be challenging, important and rewarding.

HMCTS Digital and Technology Services (DTS) is a specialist technology directorate which provides support to HMCTS in the use of IT and Digital.

DTS is committed to being a great place to work and part of our offer is brilliant training opportunities and support from expert colleagues. As well as that you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture and a place where your opinion is valued.

Please follow the link below for further information about HMCTS. www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service

Job Description:

You will be working closely with cross functional product teams to build delivery roadmaps. You will also be responsible for building and maintaining project teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well; identifying obstacles and helping the team to overcome them. You will have the ability to focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services and encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.

You will have good infrastructure and or digital delivery background and enjoy working in a delivery focused environment with multidisciplinary teams. You will also have strong interpersonal and communication skills and able to engage stakeholders. You will take responsibility for delivery of a project through its full life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and document project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents.
• Effectively set and communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Develop a sound project plan that suitably identifies resources and project outputs.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Take ownership and responsibility in terms of time, quality and cost for all assigned projects or workstreams within larger projects.
• Execute project lifecycle in accordance with in-house processes, embracing Agile project delivery.
• Take an active role in supporting procurement of third-party services and ensuring commercial controls are adequate for delivering.
• Provide effective risk management.

Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience of working in a large digital organisation, or demonstrable understanding of large digital organisations operate in the context of this role.
• Have been accountable for successful delivery of a project or workstream.
• Prior project team management experience having and supporting the work of junior grade.
• Ability to work with technical and business stakeholders to drive out needs and interpret between them.
• The capability to be responsible for deciding direction and methodology.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

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

• GDD skill 1 - Communication between technical and non-technical
• GDD skill 2 –Financial management
• GDD skill 3 – Lifecycle perspective
• GDD skill 4 – Planning

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,463, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £12,011 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

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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

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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