7859 - MoJ Property Directorate - Head of Technical Services & Design
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £68,967 to £83,585 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary is £68,967 - £78,842, London salary is £73,115 - £83,585. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7859 |
Summary
Overview
Property Directorate is a customer service organisation that exists to enable our customers to perform to their best. We do this by providing working environments in which our customers want to work, and which support them in delivering their outputs efficiently, and by providing high quality, easy to use services. We manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government, hosted in MoJ, including the estates of the Home Office, Prisons, Probation, MoJ HQ and Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs)
We provide specialist services including facilities management, health & safety, fire safety and security; technical design expertise and sustainability, our cluster partners are supported by account management teams, and we have business management teams supporting the overall Directorate
Our portfolio consists of properties valued at £8.5bn for the MoJ alone.
We work closely with our cluster partners and the Government Property Agency, encouraging healthy collaboration and driving a professional service delivery approach.
We continue to deliver new ways of working across the estates cluster – leading on the scale and pace of activity on this for central government – providing more dynamic and flexible workspace while reducing the cost of the estate.
Team Overview
This is an exciting and challenging role leading an award-winning Technical Standards and Digital team that is vital in the execution of several key MoJ and Government policies that will have a major effect on the Prison sector. This role sits within the Prison Infrastructure and Technical Standards Division and will be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of this division and will be responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Technical Standards and Digital team which includes the BIM and MMC team.
The role will help shape the direction of the estate for the foreseeable future through the leadership of the teams responsible for Technical Specifications and Design Guides.
The Technical Services & Design Lead is responsible for managing and developing the technical specifications and design guides for both Custodial facilities and a proportion of Home Office facilities. The individual will also play a key role in the transition of the new ISO19650 BIM requirements into current and future programmes and will assist in implementing the MoJ’s MMC strategy alongside the Head of BIM & MMC role. As such, this will be a greatly rewarding and challenging post for a high calibre individual who is well organised, flexible, and able to work to tight deadlines with experience of leading teams to implement fundamental change and improvement. The role will require senior management engagement (including to Ministers), liaising with other government departments to develop a suite of fit for purpose and forward-thinking design guides, and will foster innovation, share lessons learned, and promoting technical standards internally and externally to move the construction industry forwards.
Your input will be integral to drive forward the leading role MoJ has played across Government in terms of Digital, MMC and Platform approaches. This is excellent opportunity to balance your senior management skills with your technical expertise.
Property Directorate is a customer service organisation that exists to enable our customers to perform to their best. We do this by providing working environments in which our customers want to work, and which support them in delivering their outputs efficiently, and by providing high quality, easy to use services. We manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government, hosted in MoJ, including the estates of the Home Office, Prisons, Probation, MoJ HQ and Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs)
We provide specialist services including facilities management, health & safety, fire safety and security; technical design expertise and sustainability, our cluster partners are supported by account management teams, and we have business management teams supporting the overall Directorate
Our portfolio consists of properties valued at £8.5bn for the MoJ alone.
We work closely with our cluster partners and the Government Property Agency, encouraging healthy collaboration and driving a professional service delivery approach.
We continue to deliver new ways of working across the estates cluster – leading on the scale and pace of activity on this for central government – providing more dynamic and flexible workspace while reducing the cost of the estate.
Team Overview
This is an exciting and challenging role leading an award-winning Technical Standards and Digital team that is vital in the execution of several key MoJ and Government policies that will have a major effect on the Prison sector. This role sits within the Prison Infrastructure and Technical Standards Division and will be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of this division and will be responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Technical Standards and Digital team which includes the BIM and MMC team.
The role will help shape the direction of the estate for the foreseeable future through the leadership of the teams responsible for Technical Specifications and Design Guides.
The Technical Services & Design Lead is responsible for managing and developing the technical specifications and design guides for both Custodial facilities and a proportion of Home Office facilities. The individual will also play a key role in the transition of the new ISO19650 BIM requirements into current and future programmes and will assist in implementing the MoJ’s MMC strategy alongside the Head of BIM & MMC role. As such, this will be a greatly rewarding and challenging post for a high calibre individual who is well organised, flexible, and able to work to tight deadlines with experience of leading teams to implement fundamental change and improvement. The role will require senior management engagement (including to Ministers), liaising with other government departments to develop a suite of fit for purpose and forward-thinking design guides, and will foster innovation, share lessons learned, and promoting technical standards internally and externally to move the construction industry forwards.
Your input will be integral to drive forward the leading role MoJ has played across Government in terms of Digital, MMC and Platform approaches. This is excellent opportunity to balance your senior management skills with your technical expertise.