Recruiter

Recruiter

Location: National*

Closing Date: 22 January 2026

Interviews: from 03 February 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

Contract Type: 12 month fixed term appointment

Vacancy number: 13370

*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 Recruiter here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Service Transformation Group.

The Recruitment 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.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

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 CV submissions

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.

• 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.

• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow.

• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates).

• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the King’s birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.

• 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!

• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.

• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT.

• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location).

• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.

• 5 days volunteering paid leave.

• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

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.

• 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.

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

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

• Delivery: 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.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (up to 500 words) which answers 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.

Application Guidance

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement

Application Guidance

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:

• Changing and Improving

• Delivering at Pace

• 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 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