The MoJ Departmental Operations Centre (DOC) manages business continuity, resilience, and emergency response work across the MoJ, providing support to agencies and ALBs/NDPBs, and working with the centre of government to fulfil departmental requirements.
The DOC is led by a Deputy Director and there are three distinct teams – the Corporate Business Continuity Team, the Corporate Resilience Team and an Exercising & Training Team.
Team Overview
This role sits in the Corporate Business Continuity Team, which implements HM Government’s and MoJ’s corporate policies and governance frameworks for business continuity. The team responds to emergency and crisis management situations, ensuring that plans are in place to maintain critical services. The team provides advice and assurance to minsters, the Permanent Secretary, Departmental Management Board, and senior officials. They set overall departmental policy, from which the constituent agencies and business units derive their own business continuity plans. The team supports the MoJ gold/silver/bronze emergency governance structure and the department’s 24/7 activation and alerting arrangements.
, Duties and Responsibilities
Purpose of role:
Provides leadership within the business continuity and resilience function, delivering a robust approach to crisis and incident management in line with the strategic and operational direction of the organisation.
Responsibilities will include the following:
Crisis & Incident Management
Exercising and Training
Bridges
Management
Expectations of post holder in executing the role
Strong organisational skills are a critical element of this role, as is the ability to prioritise and manage a workload, analyse complex information, present recommendations and make effective decisions.
You must provide clear direction and focus, visibly championing the changes which deliver greater efficiencies.
You will support the Department’s 24/7 business continuity arrangements, which may lead to out of hours working during an incident. You may be required to take part in an on-call duty officer rota to respond to urgent issues outside of normal business hours. An allowance is payable, which covers call-out, response and overtime.
Infrequent national travel may be required.
The post holder must have or be willing to apply for National Security Clearance at SC level.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
Strong and demonstrable skills in working across teams and departments, bringing disparate groups together to achieve a common goal.
Ability to work with minimal direction and make risk-based decisions based on the evidence available to you at the time, but also has strong team ethics.
An understanding of risk, governance and assurance activities.
Evidence that you are organised and can run several areas of work concurrently and at pace, whilst maintaining your own wellbeing under pressure.
Experience identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing innovative ideas.
Highly Desirable:
Understanding of the strategic drivers for crisis management and able to align your activities to contribute to the wider organisational priorities.
Ability to encourage contributions and involvement from a broad and diverse range of staff by being visible and accessible; and play an active role in developing talent within the profession.
Experience of designing, developing and leading exercises and/or red-teaming in government; or at least significant experience in participating in a range of exercises.
Experience of working in government responses to critical challenges (for example working with a departmental operations centre or equivalent environment).
You should be able to analyse and interpret data and use it to make appropriate decisions.
Prior experience within a business continuity, crisis management and/or resilience role.
Qualifications & Membership
To have a Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI), or Membership of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) or a willingness to work towards this.
To have undertaken Cabinet Office Crisis Management Excellence Programme (CMEP) modules one, two and three, or a willingness to undertake these as soon as possible after starting the role.
Success Profiles
Working Arrangements & Further Information
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity.
Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
For nationally advertised roles: All successful candidates will be appointed to the nearest viable office nearest to their home postcode and on its respective pay scale. This will be at either a HQ building (subject to desk allocation, a Justice Collaboration Centre (JCC) or a Justice Satellite Office (JSO) – See Map All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity).
For current MoJ employees, your base location will need to be changed to the nearest viable office (to your home postcode), either at a HQ building, JCC or JSO within the National Office Network and moved its location’s respective pay scale (any legacy arrangements/locations will need to be amended).
Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain their grade on lateral transfer.
All candidates who are currently in receipt of Mark Time / Pay Protection should ensure they are familiar with the new policy on permanent and temporary promotion which can be found on the employee intranet.
Flexible working hours
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. MoJ welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ’s Flexible Working policy.
Benefits
The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
Annual Leave
Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.
There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Training
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Networks
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Eligibility
Staff on fixed term appointments must have been recruited through fair and open competition.
Vacancies advertised “cross-government” are only open to all Civil Service employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) who were appointed on merit following a fair and open competition; or were appointed to a permanent post through an exception in the Civil Service Commissioners' rules.
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Redeployment Interview Scheme
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.
MoJ is able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidates will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.
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Reserve list
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
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Please quote the job reference: 21371
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Please quote the job reference: 21371
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