7041 - Head of Civil, Family Tribunals and Victims Analysis and Head of Reducing Reoffending
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £81,000 to £117,800 per year |
| Additional salary information: | External candidates should expect their salary upon appointment to be £81,000 per annum. Existing Civil Servants will be appointed in line with the Civil Service pay rules in place on the date of their appointment. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7041 |
Summary
Head of Civil, Family, Tribunals and Victims Analysis
The Role
This role reports to Gemma Hewison, the Director of the Civil, Family, Tribunals and Administration of Justice (CFTAJ) Directorate. This role has direct management of 4 x G6 (including 1 job share), with an overall leadership span of around 45 FTE. The team provide analysis to support policy and operations across a wide range of areas, covering three policy directorates and feeding into the safer streets and growth missions. The main areas of work are on family justice, civil and administrative justice, the legal services market and victims. This work is crucial for the department in making important policy and operational decisions, for example setting the Personal Injury Discount Rate, providing evidence to support decisions around specialist rape courts, and the setting of court fees.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead a team delivering a high-profile programme of analytical work on a range of important policy areas. The work of the team directly feeds into the Growth and Safer Streets missions. This includes:
o Analytical support to Family Justice initiatives which seek to either change and improve the way that Family Justice is delivered or to change the legislative framework. This will be achieved by delivering evaluations, appraising impacts and supporting business cases.
• Support the Government’s growth agenda by providing analysis to support the Legal Services market and Industrial Strategy, Lawtech, Judicial Review Reform, and looking at how civil justice reform can promote growth and the wider rule of law.
• Victims Commissioning and implementation – monitoring and evaluation of victims support service interventions. Supporting development of policy and evaluation of the introduction of independent legal advisors for adult rape victims, and fast-tracking of rape cases.
o Providing economic support on a range of issues relating to criminal law and beyond – the team are currently supporting impact assessments for the Crime and Policing Bill, the Duty to Collaborate consultation, and the Assisted Dying Bill amongst others.
o Provide analysis to set and appraise court fees, analytical work to support decisions around judicial renumeration, and analysis to support key Civil and Administrative Justice policy changes.
o Develop productive relationships with a range of stakeholders aimed at delivering more impactful analysis, including building close working relationships with Policy Directors to understand their needs and operational colleagues to ensure the right data underpins key decisions.
o Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key area of the department’s work.
o Foster an inclusive, supportive and high performing culture.
o Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
Head of Reducing Reoffending Analysis
The Role
This role reports to Adam Bailey, the Director of the Probation and Reoffending Directorate. The role has direct management of 4 x G6s with an overall leadership span of around 70 FTE. The team uses analysis and evidence to shape policy and operations, robustly evidence intervention impacts and take forward large- by Ministers, operational and policy leaders and those on the front-line – are informed by first-class evidence and delivering MoJ’s ambition to be an evidence-led department. In time, the role will also include teams producing modelling of Probation and Electronic Monitoring, subsequently increasing the overall leadership span.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead a large multi-disciplinary analytical team to increase understanding of a complex area and deliver impactful analysis which shapes the department’s delivery of its priority outcomes to reduce reoffending – including through prison education, offender health, youth justice, accommodation and employment.
• Work closely with Ministers and senior policy and operational colleagues to shape the formulation
of new policy interventions and improve operational delivery in an objective and evidence-based manner – using analysis to make informed decision-making and produce better outcomes.
• Work hand in hand with senior policy and operational stakeholders within MoJ and across government to ensure that the work of the team is aligned with both short and longer-term priorities.
• Lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that the team is engaged and building the evidence to inform and impact, with a strong emphasis on building on our collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key departmental priority.
• Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
The Role
This role reports to Gemma Hewison, the Director of the Civil, Family, Tribunals and Administration of Justice (CFTAJ) Directorate. This role has direct management of 4 x G6 (including 1 job share), with an overall leadership span of around 45 FTE. The team provide analysis to support policy and operations across a wide range of areas, covering three policy directorates and feeding into the safer streets and growth missions. The main areas of work are on family justice, civil and administrative justice, the legal services market and victims. This work is crucial for the department in making important policy and operational decisions, for example setting the Personal Injury Discount Rate, providing evidence to support decisions around specialist rape courts, and the setting of court fees.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead a team delivering a high-profile programme of analytical work on a range of important policy areas. The work of the team directly feeds into the Growth and Safer Streets missions. This includes:
o Analytical support to Family Justice initiatives which seek to either change and improve the way that Family Justice is delivered or to change the legislative framework. This will be achieved by delivering evaluations, appraising impacts and supporting business cases.
• Support the Government’s growth agenda by providing analysis to support the Legal Services market and Industrial Strategy, Lawtech, Judicial Review Reform, and looking at how civil justice reform can promote growth and the wider rule of law.
• Victims Commissioning and implementation – monitoring and evaluation of victims support service interventions. Supporting development of policy and evaluation of the introduction of independent legal advisors for adult rape victims, and fast-tracking of rape cases.
o Providing economic support on a range of issues relating to criminal law and beyond – the team are currently supporting impact assessments for the Crime and Policing Bill, the Duty to Collaborate consultation, and the Assisted Dying Bill amongst others.
o Provide analysis to set and appraise court fees, analytical work to support decisions around judicial renumeration, and analysis to support key Civil and Administrative Justice policy changes.
o Develop productive relationships with a range of stakeholders aimed at delivering more impactful analysis, including building close working relationships with Policy Directors to understand their needs and operational colleagues to ensure the right data underpins key decisions.
o Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key area of the department’s work.
o Foster an inclusive, supportive and high performing culture.
o Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.
Head of Reducing Reoffending Analysis
The Role
This role reports to Adam Bailey, the Director of the Probation and Reoffending Directorate. The role has direct management of 4 x G6s with an overall leadership span of around 70 FTE. The team uses analysis and evidence to shape policy and operations, robustly evidence intervention impacts and take forward large- by Ministers, operational and policy leaders and those on the front-line – are informed by first-class evidence and delivering MoJ’s ambition to be an evidence-led department. In time, the role will also include teams producing modelling of Probation and Electronic Monitoring, subsequently increasing the overall leadership span.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead a large multi-disciplinary analytical team to increase understanding of a complex area and deliver impactful analysis which shapes the department’s delivery of its priority outcomes to reduce reoffending – including through prison education, offender health, youth justice, accommodation and employment.
• Work closely with Ministers and senior policy and operational colleagues to shape the formulation
of new policy interventions and improve operational delivery in an objective and evidence-based manner – using analysis to make informed decision-making and produce better outcomes.
• Work hand in hand with senior policy and operational stakeholders within MoJ and across government to ensure that the work of the team is aligned with both short and longer-term priorities.
• Lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that the team is engaged and building the evidence to inform and impact, with a strong emphasis on building on our collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Provide leadership, professional oversight and line management to the team, ensuring analytical standards are high, strengthening the capacity and skills of staff and driving innovation in our use of data and analysis to support this key departmental priority.
• Alongside the rest of the SCS leadership team, take collective ownership of leading the analytical community and play an active part in the senior team to develop a strong, diverse and inclusive community.