5718 - MoJ Property Directorate- Portfolio Manager
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,463 to £52,040 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5718 |
Summary
Overview
The MoJ Property Directorate is a customer focused organisation that exists to enable our customers to perform to their very best. We do this by providing high quality, easy to use services, and working environments that our customers want to work in, which support them to deliver their individual outputs efficiently. Our job is to manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government – hosted by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Our remit brings together a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation, MoJ HQ and Arm’s Length Bodies.
MoJ Property provides specialist services including Facilities Management, Health and Safety, Fire Safety, Security, Technical Design expertise and Sustainability. Additionally, we have dedicated business management teams supporting the entire Directorate and each of our partners is supported by Account Management teams. We are part of the Government Property Profession (GPP) and through active membership and engagement we will work with the Office of Government Property to develop the maturity of the profession and encourage our people to join the GPP. We aim to build our capability through training and recruitment, aspiring to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a Directorate.
We continue to deliver new ways of working across our portfolio leading on the scale and pace of activity for central government. Our approach involves proposing effective solutions, offering dynamic and flexible workspaces, and significantly reducing the cost of the estate.
MOJ Property delivers a variety of Special Projects, addressing specific capacity needs across the HMPPS Estate. The Portfolio Manager Role will be part of the Rapid Deployment Cells Programme and will support the team deliver against the current delivery strategy.
The RDCP aims to deliver capacity across the prison estate at pace. RDCs represent the fastest current deliverable supply option for the prison estate to reduce the capacity gap in the short-medium term whilst other work is underway on both demand and supply measures.
Units will be modern, decent, and offer the prisons a good option to manage their progressive regimes (independent living to those prisoners who are nearing the end of their term of risk assessed as not being a danger to themselves or others).
RDC units differ from other temporary accommodation in a number of ways. The units can be stacked to effectively utilise space and accessible sleeper units can be provided.
In December 2022, the Full Business Case (FBC) Addendum to secure funding for 520 additional RDC places was approved by HM Treasury and Cabinet Office. Overall, this takes delivery of the first two Tranches to a total of 1,000 places across 17 prisons. c.400 RDC places were delivered in 2023, with the majority of the remaining 600 places due to deliver over 2024.
As of June 2024, we have delivered 767 places across 14 sites.
Team Overview
The RDC Programme is a top priority for HMPPS and MoJ as a key solution to manage short-to-medium term capacity pressures. There is significant interest from the Lord Chancellor and No10 with the programme having secured funding to deliver c.1700.
The rationale for the delivery of all spaces was to deliver much needed capacity for the estate in the short-to-medium term and will enable the department to meet its legal obligation to ensure sufficient prison capacity to uphold court sentences in the longer term. RDCP is the preferred short-term option at our disposal to support HMPPS and deliver prison places.
The Programme team consists of a team of Senior Project Sponsors and a Head of Programme Delivery.
The MoJ Property Directorate is a customer focused organisation that exists to enable our customers to perform to their very best. We do this by providing high quality, easy to use services, and working environments that our customers want to work in, which support them to deliver their individual outputs efficiently. Our job is to manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government – hosted by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Our remit brings together a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation, MoJ HQ and Arm’s Length Bodies.
MoJ Property provides specialist services including Facilities Management, Health and Safety, Fire Safety, Security, Technical Design expertise and Sustainability. Additionally, we have dedicated business management teams supporting the entire Directorate and each of our partners is supported by Account Management teams. We are part of the Government Property Profession (GPP) and through active membership and engagement we will work with the Office of Government Property to develop the maturity of the profession and encourage our people to join the GPP. We aim to build our capability through training and recruitment, aspiring to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a Directorate.
We continue to deliver new ways of working across our portfolio leading on the scale and pace of activity for central government. Our approach involves proposing effective solutions, offering dynamic and flexible workspaces, and significantly reducing the cost of the estate.
MOJ Property delivers a variety of Special Projects, addressing specific capacity needs across the HMPPS Estate. The Portfolio Manager Role will be part of the Rapid Deployment Cells Programme and will support the team deliver against the current delivery strategy.
The RDCP aims to deliver capacity across the prison estate at pace. RDCs represent the fastest current deliverable supply option for the prison estate to reduce the capacity gap in the short-medium term whilst other work is underway on both demand and supply measures.
Units will be modern, decent, and offer the prisons a good option to manage their progressive regimes (independent living to those prisoners who are nearing the end of their term of risk assessed as not being a danger to themselves or others).
RDC units differ from other temporary accommodation in a number of ways. The units can be stacked to effectively utilise space and accessible sleeper units can be provided.
In December 2022, the Full Business Case (FBC) Addendum to secure funding for 520 additional RDC places was approved by HM Treasury and Cabinet Office. Overall, this takes delivery of the first two Tranches to a total of 1,000 places across 17 prisons. c.400 RDC places were delivered in 2023, with the majority of the remaining 600 places due to deliver over 2024.
As of June 2024, we have delivered 767 places across 14 sites.
Team Overview
The RDC Programme is a top priority for HMPPS and MoJ as a key solution to manage short-to-medium term capacity pressures. There is significant interest from the Lord Chancellor and No10 with the programme having secured funding to deliver c.1700.
The rationale for the delivery of all spaces was to deliver much needed capacity for the estate in the short-to-medium term and will enable the department to meet its legal obligation to ensure sufficient prison capacity to uphold court sentences in the longer term. RDCP is the preferred short-term option at our disposal to support HMPPS and deliver prison places.
The Programme team consists of a team of Senior Project Sponsors and a Head of Programme Delivery.