Location
East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber
About The Job
Job summary
This position is based nationally
Job Description
Grade: 6
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £73,115 - £83,585; National: £68,967 - £78,842
Working pattern: Full time, part time/job share, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 92067
- 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
Digital Communications Lead here at Justice Digital , to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
The Digital Communications Lead will lead the communications strategy for Justice Digital, ensuring that the organisation's strategic priorities are clearly articulated and effectively communicated to internal and external audiences. Reporting to the Head of Comms, Engagement, and Recruitment, and working as a key member of the Strategy & Operations leadership team, this role will be instrumental in promoting Justice Digital’s mission, driving engagement, and developing strong relationships across the Ministry of Justice and beyond.
This role is essential in ensuring that communications align with the wider organisational goals, promote transparency, and drive engagement within Justice Digital and across the Ministry of Justice. The Digital Communications Lead will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, consistent messaging through various channels, including leadership communications, internal events, blogs, and social media.
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:
Communications Strategy:
- Lead the overall communications strategy for Justice Digital, ensuring alignment with the broader organisational goals and the 2025 Digital Strategy.
- Develop and implement communication plans that engage internal teams, external partners, and key stakeholders, driving awareness and understanding of strategic initiatives.
- Maintain oversight of all communications channels, ensuring consistent and clear messaging across leadership communications, events, blogs, and social media.
Leadership Communications:
- Manage the production and dissemination of key leadership communications, including Leaders' Weeknotes, capturing strategic updates and insights from senior leadership.
- Develop a consistent leadership voice for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), working closely with the CDIO and other key leaders to shape and deliver external engagement content.
- Support the Head of Comms and senior leaders in preparing for internal and external speaking engagements, ensuring alignment with Justice Digital’s key messages and strategic objectives.
Internal Engagement:
- Oversee the fortnightly all-staff stand-up to ensure it engages teams around key priorities and delivers strategic insights effectively.
- Lead on the delivery of ad-hoc internal communications, ensuring timely, relevant, and impactful messaging that aligns with organisational priorities.
- Collaborate closely with the Engagement Lead to ensure communications and engagement activities are complementary, and work together to promote Justice Digital’s values and achievements.
External and Cross-Government Engagement:
- Build strong relationships with Ministry of Justice leadership teams and external partners to increase the visibility of Justice Digital’s work and secure support for strategic objectives.
- Manage blogs and social media content that promote Justice Digital’s work to both internal and external audiences, strengthening the organisation’s brand and reach.
- Collaborate with external conference providers and stakeholders to influence the government communications calendar, ensuring Justice Digital’s message is well-represented.
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 Kings’ 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.
- 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.
Person Specification
Essential
- Extensive experience in developing and delivering effective communications strategies within a large, complex organisation. Proven ability to manage leadership communications, including drafting key messages, preparing senior leaders for both internal and external engagements, and ensuring consistent and clear communication across various channels.
- Demonstrated success in producing content for multiple platforms, including blogs, social media, and internal communications, with a strong focus on aligning messaging with organisational priorities and engaging diverse audiences.
- Adept at building strong, collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders, both internally and externally, to foster engagement, secure buy-in for strategic initiatives, and influence communication approaches at all levels.
- Ability to think strategically and understand the wider organisational context, ensuring communications initiatives align with long-term goals and reflect the broader mission of Justice Digital and the Ministry of Justice.
- Skilled in managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, delivering high-quality communications products to tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and ensuring strategic objectives are met.
- Strong leadership skills, with experience inspiring and motivating teams to deliver results, promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, and driving the overall communications agenda to align with wider organisational goals.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
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 .
Person specification
Benefits
Please refer to attached Job Description
Alongside your salary of £68,967, Ministry of Justice contributes £19,979 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Candidates must submit
a CV and Personal Statement of Suitability (c.750 words), which describes how you meet the following requirements set out in the Person Specification above:
- Extensive experience in developing and delivering effective communications strategies within a large, complex organisation. Proven ability to manage leadership communications, including drafting key messages, preparing senior leaders for both internal and external engagements, and ensuring consistent and clear communication across various channels.
- Demonstrated success in producing content for multiple platforms, including blogs, social media, and internal communications, with a strong focus on aligning messaging with organisational priorities and engaging diverse audiences.
- Adept at building strong, collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders, both internally and externally, to foster engagement, secure buy-in for strategic initiatives, and influence communication approaches at all levels.
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 and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Seeing the Bigger Picture
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 we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your extensive experience in developing and delivering effective communications strategies within a large, complex organisation. Proven ability to manage leadership communications, including drafting key messages, preparing senior leaders for both internal and external engagements, and ensuring consistent and clear communication across various channels will be conducted before the sift.
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.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & 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 recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
- Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
- Telephone : 0845 241 5359
Recruitment team
- Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/
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