Senior Transition Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: Sunday 3rd November

Interviews: Thursday 14th December

Grade: Grade 7

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

Salary: National: £54,358 - £61,585 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,517).

London: £58,847 - £66,670 (which may include an allowance of up to £4,828).

Working pattern: Full time, part time, flexible working, job share.

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 81454

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Senior Transition Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategic Initiatives team.

The Ministry of Justice needs to be able to facilitate the operation of a diverse range of technology effectively across a diverse set of business areas and report against them. You will be a key member of the strategy, governance and design capability, supporting and contributing to its continuous improvement. 

The Technology Team design, deliver and support the core infrastructure and systems that deliver services to circa 80,000 Ministry of Justice users across over 1000 locations.

The Senior Transition Manager leads the integration and transition of services from incumbent suppliers to new service providers and the introduction of new services, process and operating models into existing and new capabilities.  Ensuring that Transitions are planned and carried out in a timely manner and within budget. 

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

Key Responsibilities:

We are recruiting for Senior Transition Manager to work alongside Commercial, Contract, Service and Delivery Managers within the Technology Services Team. 

The key purpose of the Senior Transition Manager is:

• Managing a team of Transition Specialists ensuring the team are rightly sized and capable of delivering on programme requirements. 
• Provide a path of escalation and resolution to the Transition Specialists and Service Providers.
• Accountable for ensuring suitable tools are in place to track monitor and record success, issues and status of a complex programme, maintain and update these tools to ensure suitability for an ever-changing landscape of programme deliverables.
• Assimilate reporting across the portfolio of projects and provide regular reporting to Senior Stakeholders.
• Provide expert Transition Knowledge across a broad range of Technology services.
• Implement a Transition Gated Process and Chair Transition Gate Meetings  
• Understand project interdependencies and sequence migration and cutover events appropriately.
• Be accountable for the end-to-end transition plans across the portfolio of projects.
• Provide cover to team members from time to time during periods of leave, reaching into areas as required to maintain delivery.

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

Person Specification

Essential

• Detailed Technical Knowledge across a broad range of Information Technology areas, such as, EUCS, Networking Telephony, Video Services, Hosting. 
• Experience delivering 30m+ complex Technology Programmes with an understanding of the Government, working in the justice system, Government IT Profession and cross government IT policies. 
• The ability to plan, monitor, control, and report status information.
• Experience of leading large-scale migrations and technology roll outs in large-scale public-sector IT programme delivery (£30m+ value).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate to all levels of stakeholder.
• Strong organisational, analytical, interpersonal and politically astute skills.
• Certified and/or working knowledge of Prince2 and ITIL.

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of 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.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning
• 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 
• 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Option to buy or sell annual leave
• 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 Careers & 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.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel. 

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on ‘Certified and/or working knowledge of Prince2 and ITIL’ will be conducted prior to the sift.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk