Recruiter

Recruiter

Location: National*

Closing Date: 22 May 2026

Interviews: from 04 June 2026

Grade: HEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: London: £40,014 - £42,859; National: £35,335 - £37,847

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Job share

Contract Type: Two Year Fixed Term Appointment

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 17556

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Recruiter here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Recruitment Delivery team.

The Recruitment Delivery team adopts a team based agile approach to working - operating together in small, independent Squads. These squads are trusted partners; empowered as professionals to plan their work and decide how to work together to meet their goals. Each function within the squad has specific accountabilities, with the entire squad accountable for delivering on their commitments.

When our hiring managers want to recruit awesome people, they will come to you for expert advice, solutions and guidance. You will enjoy crafting productive relationships, supporting hiring panels through the end-to-end recruitment process as well as ensuring an engaging and enjoyable candidate experience.

We’ve grown by over 80% in the past 3 years and our mission remains to build the most capable, diverse and innovative Justice Digital team across Government.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.

• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.

• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.

• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.

• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end recruitment process for staff and contractors, providing an excellent experience to both candidates and hiring managers.

• Deliver high-quality recruitment outcomes that meet customer priorities and objectives, identifying risks and resolving issues efficiently.

• Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to ensure one source of up to date information, for both the current workforce and future requirements. Proactively reviewing current processes and identifying improvements that could be made.

• Apply expert knowledge and best practices to ensure successful hiring of talented staff.

• Engage with partners to communicate business needs and manage candidate applications.

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

• Recruitment: hands-on experience (in an agency or internal setting) of leading a hiring manager through the end-to-end recruitment process to successfully hire staff and/or contractors.

• Managing a Quality Service: Service Excellence - deliver high quality outcomes that meet customer needs by working with stakeholders to set priorities, objectives and timescales as well as identify risks and resolve issues.

• Working Together: Partnering - establish productive partnerships with customers and stakeholders to deliver shared organisational outcomes.

• Changing & Improving: Continuous Improvement - Working within squads to review and inspect progress towards agreed goals, proactively reviewing current processes and identifying improvements that could be made.

• Delivering at Pace: follow the appropriate procedures to ensure results are achieved. Regularly monitor your own work against milestones and act promptly to reassess workloads and priorities when there are conflicting demands to maintain performance.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

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.

Salary Information**

Base salary for this role is:

London: £40,014 - £42,859; National: £35,335 - £37,847

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.

• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.

• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.

The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.

How to Apply

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:

• A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.

• A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following question: Tell us about a time when you have led a hiring manager through the end-to-end recruitment process resulting in a successful outcome and quality service.

• Your application will be used to assess the two criteria listed below:

• Recruitment: hands-on experience (in an agency or internal setting) of leading a hiring manager through the end-to-end recruitment process to successfully hire staff and/or contractors.

• Managing a Quality Service: Service Excellence - deliver high quality outcomes that meet customer needs by working with stakeholders to set priorities, objectives and timescales as well as identify risks and resolve issues.

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the below criterion will be conducted before the sift:

• Recruitment: hands-on experience (in an agency or internal setting) of leading a hiring manager through the end-to-end recruitment process to successfully hire staff and/or contractors.

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance

Stage 2 - Interviews:

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

• Recruitment: hands-on experience (in an agency or internal setting) of leading a hiring manager through the end-to-end recruitment process to successfully hire staff and/or contractors.

• Managing a Quality Service: Service Excellence - deliver high quality outcomes that meet customer needs by working with stakeholders to set priorities, objectives and timescales as well as identify risks and resolve issues.

• Working Together: Partnering - establish productive partnerships with customers and stakeholders to deliver shared organisational outcomes.

• Changing & Improving: Continuous Improvement - Working within squads to review and inspect progress towards agreed goals, proactively reviewing current processes and identifying improvements that could be made.

• Delivering at Pace: follow the appropriate procedures to ensure results are achieved. Regularly monitor your own work against milestones and act promptly to reassess workloads and priorities when there are conflicting demands to maintain performance.

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the following will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order:

• Recruitment: hands-on experience (in an agency or internal setting) of leading a hiring manager through the end-to-end recruitment process to successfully hire staff and/or contractors.

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.

Use of 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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and 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 digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk