6971 - MoJ Property Directorate - Synergy Sustainability Lead
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £68,967 to £83,585 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6971 |
Summary
Overview
Join over 79,000 staff at the Ministry of Justice and help us make a positive and meaningful impact to the lives of thousands of people and the environment.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a major government department at the heart of the justice system where we work to protect and advance the principles of justice. The MoJ has one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government – covering a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation centres and approved premises, courts as well as the offices of the HQ and Arms Length Bodies. The MoJ Property Directorate is a supportive, people-focused organisation that provides high quality, easy-to-use services for customers, and positive, collaborative working environments for staff.
The MoJ is continuously dedicated to building staff capability and promoting staff wellbeing, with aspirations to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a directorate. We offer a range of development opportunities including accredited training courses, a work-life balance that works for you, a generous pension and staff discount voucher schemes.
Team Overview
Climate Change and Sustainability Unit
You will be part of a lively and creative multidisciplinary team responsible for the delivery of key MoJ sustainability priorities. The MoJ intends to be a sustainability leader within Whitehall, and as such, seeks high performing and highly motivated individuals to inspire and deliver meaningful environmental improvements. We work collaboratively across our areas of expertise to deliver positive environmental outcomes across a large range of themes including:
Meeting the Greening Government Commitment targets (GGC)
Energy management & decarbonisation/net zero
Climate change adaptation and resilience
Waste management and circular resource models
Water efficiency
Sustainable construction
Sustainable procurement
Biodiversity protection and enhancement.
The Climate Change and Sustainability Unit is responsible for embedding environmental sustainability across MoJ, its agencies (including prisons, courts and probation centres) and its Arm’s Length Bodies. Sustainability needs to be embedded across the department’s policy making, operations, finance, governance, estates and commercial activity. Working in a large and diverse organisation presents the team with huge scope to deliver national scale sustainability leadership.
Although this role will be part of MoJ and the CCSU, the Sustainability Lead role will be embedded day-to-day in the Synergy Programme Team in the Department for Work and Pensions.
Synergy Programme:
An exciting new role is available in the Synergy Programme, a cross-departmental group formed in response to Government Business Service’s request for individual departments to group together in ‘clusters’ to drive efficiencies, increase buying power and improve the quality of shared service to our end users – our people.
The Synergy Programme is the largest of five departmental clusters, comprising the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. The Department for Work and Pensions hosts the Synergy Programme. Your work will impact Shared Services arrangements and support almost a quarter of a million officials and public servants across the four departments and arm’s length bodies who deliver some of the most vital public services in our country.
The success of the programme is crucial, as Civil Servants rely on shared services to provide business critical tools in human resources, finance, payroll and procurement. It affects everything we do, from joining a department as a new starter, the way we claim for expenses, how we buy goods and services such as our laptops and canteen provisions, to the way we receive our pensions when we retire.
Alongside the impact on business-critical services, the Synergy scope offers the opportunity to drive and embed sustainable change across HR, finance, and procurement shared services. The UK government has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. This has been underpinned by statutory change and Government sustainability commitments in public services, as set out in the Greening Government Commitments and Greening government: ICT and digital services strategy
As such, sustainability is one of six objectives for Synergy, to “embed sustainability throughout the programme”. The programme is striving to adopt an ambitious approach for sustainability, from how we select the partners we choose to work with, to the technology and business design principles it adopts. We are working with and seeking suppliers who share our sustainability ambition, and will help us design and deliver sustainable services, underpinned by sustainable technologies within a culture that values and prioritises sustainability.
If you’re someone who can use your experience to drive Synergy’s sustainability ambition, we want to hear from you. But most importantly, we’re looking for applications from people who can also demonstrate a passion for our core ambition - delivering a once in a generation, transformed service that Civil Servants will use as a result of the Synergy Programme.
Join over 79,000 staff at the Ministry of Justice and help us make a positive and meaningful impact to the lives of thousands of people and the environment.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a major government department at the heart of the justice system where we work to protect and advance the principles of justice. The MoJ has one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government – covering a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation centres and approved premises, courts as well as the offices of the HQ and Arms Length Bodies. The MoJ Property Directorate is a supportive, people-focused organisation that provides high quality, easy-to-use services for customers, and positive, collaborative working environments for staff.
The MoJ is continuously dedicated to building staff capability and promoting staff wellbeing, with aspirations to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a directorate. We offer a range of development opportunities including accredited training courses, a work-life balance that works for you, a generous pension and staff discount voucher schemes.
Team Overview
Climate Change and Sustainability Unit
You will be part of a lively and creative multidisciplinary team responsible for the delivery of key MoJ sustainability priorities. The MoJ intends to be a sustainability leader within Whitehall, and as such, seeks high performing and highly motivated individuals to inspire and deliver meaningful environmental improvements. We work collaboratively across our areas of expertise to deliver positive environmental outcomes across a large range of themes including:
Meeting the Greening Government Commitment targets (GGC)
Energy management & decarbonisation/net zero
Climate change adaptation and resilience
Waste management and circular resource models
Water efficiency
Sustainable construction
Sustainable procurement
Biodiversity protection and enhancement.
The Climate Change and Sustainability Unit is responsible for embedding environmental sustainability across MoJ, its agencies (including prisons, courts and probation centres) and its Arm’s Length Bodies. Sustainability needs to be embedded across the department’s policy making, operations, finance, governance, estates and commercial activity. Working in a large and diverse organisation presents the team with huge scope to deliver national scale sustainability leadership.
Although this role will be part of MoJ and the CCSU, the Sustainability Lead role will be embedded day-to-day in the Synergy Programme Team in the Department for Work and Pensions.
Synergy Programme:
An exciting new role is available in the Synergy Programme, a cross-departmental group formed in response to Government Business Service’s request for individual departments to group together in ‘clusters’ to drive efficiencies, increase buying power and improve the quality of shared service to our end users – our people.
The Synergy Programme is the largest of five departmental clusters, comprising the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. The Department for Work and Pensions hosts the Synergy Programme. Your work will impact Shared Services arrangements and support almost a quarter of a million officials and public servants across the four departments and arm’s length bodies who deliver some of the most vital public services in our country.
The success of the programme is crucial, as Civil Servants rely on shared services to provide business critical tools in human resources, finance, payroll and procurement. It affects everything we do, from joining a department as a new starter, the way we claim for expenses, how we buy goods and services such as our laptops and canteen provisions, to the way we receive our pensions when we retire.
Alongside the impact on business-critical services, the Synergy scope offers the opportunity to drive and embed sustainable change across HR, finance, and procurement shared services. The UK government has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. This has been underpinned by statutory change and Government sustainability commitments in public services, as set out in the Greening Government Commitments and Greening government: ICT and digital services strategy
As such, sustainability is one of six objectives for Synergy, to “embed sustainability throughout the programme”. The programme is striving to adopt an ambitious approach for sustainability, from how we select the partners we choose to work with, to the technology and business design principles it adopts. We are working with and seeking suppliers who share our sustainability ambition, and will help us design and deliver sustainable services, underpinned by sustainable technologies within a culture that values and prioritises sustainability.
If you’re someone who can use your experience to drive Synergy’s sustainability ambition, we want to hear from you. But most importantly, we’re looking for applications from people who can also demonstrate a passion for our core ambition - delivering a once in a generation, transformed service that Civil Servants will use as a result of the Synergy Programme.