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Job Summary
This is a Nationally based role
Job Description
Reporting into the Director of Justice AI Unit you will:
Strategic Leadership:
- Lead AI enablement across the MoJ, with a focus on cutting-edge LLM adoption, driving scalable and ethically grounded transformation aligned with the AI Action Plan for Justice.
- Oversee and deliver two priority workstreams: AI Assistants at Scale and Enablement, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and broader transformation initiatives.
- Own execution of the roadmap for AI enablement and AI assistants at scale, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term workforce transformation objectives.
- Maintain deep expertise in cutting-edge developments in foundation models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, and Google DeepMind, to inform strategy and ensure the MoJ remains aligned with the latest capabilities in the market.
- Translate advances in large language models into actionable opportunities for the department, supporting staff, services, and policy.
- Shape the future direction of AI-enabled government services, identifying long-term opportunities for transformation beyond existing plans and infrastructure.
Senior Stakeholder Engagement:
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Director of AI, Director General for Service Transformation Group and senior leadership team, providing evidence-based recommendations on AI roll out, adoption and enablement strategy.
- Build exceptional relationships with SCS colleagues across the MoJ to integrate AI tools into existing operational frameworks, ensuring consistency and alignment across departments.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with unions, addressing concerns related to job redesign and workforce transformation with transparency and strategic foresight.
- Leverage strong relationships with leading AI research labs and commercial providers to accelerate access to talent, tooling, and thought leadership. Act as an ambassador for MoJ within the UK and global AI ecosystem.
Team Leadership And Coordination:
- Attract talent to a leading AI enablement team and leading a team of c.10 high performing staff, providing clear direction, coaching and performance management.
- Ensure effective coordination of strategic workstreams and teams, including private sector partners, to deliver measurable outcomes.
- Design, execute and champion AI enablement initiatives, ensuring that staff across the MoJ and our agencies are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to leverage AI effectively.
Operational Excellence:
- Design and implement clear evaluations of AI roll out and enablement activities, such as efficiency and service quality improvements, to support strategic decision making and investment decisions
- Lead the safe and ethical rollout of AI solutions to staff and service users, balancing innovation with organisational sensitivities.
- Oversee resource planning, budget allocation, and risk management for AI Enablement, ensuring all initiatives are delivered on time and within scope.
- Evaluate open source, commercial, and proprietary models and tools, supporting architectural and implementation decisions.
Deputising For The Director Of AI:
- Represent the Director in strategic forums, including cross-government AI working groups, high-level stakeholder engagements, and external conferences.
- Provide leadership across all AI Action Plan for Justice workstreams in the Director’s absence, ensuring continuity and progress on key initiatives.
Reporting into the Director of Justice AI Unit you will:
Deputising For The Director Of AI:
- Represent the Director in strategic forums, including cross-government AI working groups, high-level stakeholder engagements, and external conferences.
- Provide leadership across all AI Action Plan for Justice workstreams in the Director’s absence, ensuring continuity and progress on key initiatives.
Person specification
Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.
Diversity & 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 and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
Alongside your salary of £81,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £23,465 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
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
- Name : SCS Recruitment Team
- Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If 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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