Senior Delivery Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 11th November 2026

Interviews: Week commencing 23rd November 2026 (subject to change)

Grade: G7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**:
London: £63,343 - £70,725
National: £58,511 - £65,329

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

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 23292

*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

The Role

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

This role sits within Justice Data, where multidisciplinary teams work across the data lifecycle to turn complex data into better decisions, tools and services. 

We bring together expertise in data management, engineering, access and sharing, data linking, data science and AI, analysis and service management. Working with partners across the department, the Criminal Justice System and wider government, we strengthen data foundations, connect data across organisational boundaries and make it easier to use data securely and effectively. 

By combining strong data foundations and governance with engineering, insight and AI, Justice Data supports better decision-making, frontline delivery and long-term transformation of the justice system. 

This role aligns against Delivery Manager Profession from the Government Digital and Data Framework

The HQ, HMCTS and Agencies Division plays a critical role in delivering data and digital services that support the Ministry of Justice, HM Courts & Tribunals Service, and its agencies. Our Delivery Managers work with multidisciplinary teams, stakeholders, users, and suppliers to deliver a diverse portfolio of products, platforms, services, and transformation initiatives that improve outcomes across the justice system.

You will join our growing delivery community. Successful candidates may be deployed across a range of programmes, products, and services within the Division, including reporting and visualisation services, data and analytical engineering platforms, digital products, and business transformation initiatives.

Senior Delivery Managers work closely with engineers, analysts, product managers, service owners, stakeholders, and users to understand needs, shape delivery approaches, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure successful outcomes. They create the conditions for teams to succeed, fostering collaboration, removing barriers, and promoting effective ways of working.

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex and high-profile initiatives, working across organisational boundaries to align priorities, build strong relationships, and deliver valuable, user-centred services.

You will join a supportive and inclusive professional community that values diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and collaboration.

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

• Act as the Senior Delivery Manager for data and digital services, leading end-to-end delivery and serving as the primary point of accountability, oversight, and escalation.
• Lead the delivery of complex, high-profile data and digital services, using agile and lean methodologies, maintaining momentum across teams and priorities.
• Shape and deliver the roadmap for data and digital services, ensuring services meet user needs, align with organisational priorities, and support data-driven decision making across the Ministry of Justice.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and blockers across data and digital initiatives, ensuring timely decision-making and clear escalation where required.
• Use delivery management tools (for example Azure DevOps, Jira, GitHub Projects, or Trello) to capture requirements, plan work, coordinate teams, and enable transparent communication.
• Use data, performance metrics, and user insights to inform delivery decisions, improve service adoption, measure impact, and continuously improve delivery practices.
• Work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to establish priorities, define meaningful outcomes, and enable the successful delivery of digital products and services.
• Work closely with data engineers, developers, visualisation specialists, analysts, product managers, and domain leads to plan delivery, coordinate activity, and demonstrate the value of reporting products and platform capabilities.
• Establish and maintain effective governance and prioritisation across services and platforms, balancing strategic objectives, operational needs, technical debt, and user requirements.
• Build, support, and develop multidisciplinary teams, fostering an inclusive environment where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work.
• Coach and mentor delivery managers and team members, supporting professional development and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Promote and embed agile and lean ways of working, supporting teams to adopt appropriate tools, techniques, and delivery patterns that enable effective delivery and continuous improvement.
• Lead cross-team alignment and organisational change through clear communication, stakeholder engagement, workshops, events, and knowledge sharing.
• Promote and embed best practice in data and digital delivery, helping to establish consistent standards, governance, and ways of working across the organisation.
• Contribute to the wider delivery management community across Technology Services and Justice Digital, strengthening delivery capability and peer networks.

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:

• Delivery Management and Team Collaboration - Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, maintaining strong focus on outcomes while proactively removing blockers. You foster healthy, transparent, and collaborative teams, resolve conflict, accelerate team performance, adapt team structures to context, and balance effective delivery with ongoing professional development
• Agile and Lean Practices - You lead and coach on Agile and Lean practices, stay up to date with emerging trends, and continuously improve ways of working to enable effective delivery. You apply continuous planning, forecasting, estimation, metrics, risk management, and roadmap planning with strong awareness of team and cross-team activity.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical - You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity. Can successfully react and respond to challenges.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC 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 from: London: £63,343 - £70,725; National: £58,511 - £65,329

• 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.

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, Technical skills 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 three criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
• Delivery Management and Team Collaboration - Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, maintaining strong focus on outcomes while proactively removing blockers. You foster healthy, transparent, and collaborative teams, resolve conflict, accelerate team performance, adapt team structures to context, and balance effective delivery with ongoing professional development
• Agile and Lean Practices - You lead and coach on Agile and Lean practices, stay up to date with emerging trends, and continuously improve ways of working to enable effective delivery. You apply continuous planning, forecasting, estimation, metrics, risk management, and roadmap planning with strong awareness of team and cross-team activity.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical - You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity. Can successfully react and respond to challenges.

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 following criterion will be conducted before the sift: Delivery Management and Team Collaboration - Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, maintaining strong focus on outcomes while proactively removing blockers. You foster healthy, transparent, and collaborative teams, resolve conflict, accelerate team performance, adapt team structures to context, and balance effective delivery with ongoing professional development.

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 - Experience, Technical and the following Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving

As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a five-minute presentation that assesses you against "Communicating between the technical and non-technical" criterion. Further details will be provided if successful at sift.

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the Delivery Management and Team Collaboration criteria will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.

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