7942 - Judicial Appointments Commission - Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £38,661 to £42,019 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7942 |
Summary
Judicial Appointments Commission - Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO)
Are you passionate about building strong and collaborative stakeholder relationships? Is delivering impactful and inspiring remote events your forte? Do you want to contribute to supporting the creation of a judiciary that better represents the society it serves? If the answer is yes, you could be exactly who we are seeking.
The Role
We’re looking for a Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO) to help us reach and connect with our target audiences. As an independent public body, the Judicial Appointments Commission is responsible for designing, planning, and running recruitment campaigns to select judges in the courts and tribunals, up to and including the High Court, as well as non-legal tribunal members. You can read more about our work on our website: http://judicialappointments.gov.uk
With a new recruitment campaign launched every couple of weeks, and statutory responsibilities to make sure we select candidates on merit and through fair and open competition, it’s essential that our processes are robust, inclusive, and attractive to candidates from the widest possible backgrounds. It’s also essential that our audiences and stakeholders understand our work and our commitment to supporting the creation of a more diverse judiciary. Our Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager plays a vital role in helping us to achieve that ambition.
As part of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach and Research (TOR) team, who have responsibility for supporting judicial applicants from underrepresented groups, the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager will lead key projects aimed at improving judicial diversity. They will play a central role in coordinating our engagement with our target audiences, managing our rolling stakeholder events calendar, and leading on the design, delivery, and evaluation of remote and face to face outreach events.
The successful applicant will lead promotion of our initiatives across a range of partners and stakeholders to encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to consider applying for judicial appointment. The role will also play an important part in supporting the Targeted Outreach Team’s Judicial Guide Scheme – which matches experienced judges with candidates from diverse backgrounds during their application journey.
You can read more about the work of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach Team here: Targeted Outreach and Research Team – Judicial Appointments Commission.
This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys working in a small but dynamic team, collaborating with colleagues who are passionate about the JAC’s mission.
Main Responsibilities
Reporting to the Senior Project Delivery Manager of the Targeted Outreach and Research (TOR) team, your main responsibilities will be to:
Lead stakeholder interaction for the TOR team by developing a programme of rolling outreach and engagement activities that links to the judicial recruitment programme and TOR initiatives.
Ensure stakeholders are kept appropriately informed on the TOR teams work via regular newsletters, blog posts and articles, and constructively contribute their perspective and specialist input.
Maintain and implement a stakeholder strategy and action plan to direct engagement of existing and emerging stakeholders. Ensure TOR team activities align with JAC diversity strategy and complement outreach and engagement work undertaken elsewhere in the JAC and wider MoJ.
Oversee liaison with external stakeholders to arrange TOR team attendance at remote and face to face outreach events, draft content for outreach briefings, prepare materials for use at outreach events and deliver presentations.
Develop, implement, and evaluate audience feedback tools and data, to support and enhance outreach with user led insights.
Support ongoing strands of research focussed on the Commission’s 2025 priorities around neurodiverse candidates and better understanding barriers for black candidates.
Collaborate and coordinate with the JAC’s Diversity, Engagement and Communications team and relevant stakeholders to develop and engage existing and new candidate pools, prioritising underrepresented and harder to reach groups.
Work with the Directors of Training for the TOR Judicial Guide Scheme to deliver, evaluate and expand the training offer for volunteer judges.
Manage and update corresponding stakeholder engagement tools and databases, and compile reports and internal and external updates.
Work with TOR statistics leads to support the monitoring of progress of Targeted Outreach participants through the JAC selection process to inform updates.
We are a small team who work collaboratively, and the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager may need to get involved in other projects and work beyond what is listed above to support the wider TOR team (and wider organisation).
Are you passionate about building strong and collaborative stakeholder relationships? Is delivering impactful and inspiring remote events your forte? Do you want to contribute to supporting the creation of a judiciary that better represents the society it serves? If the answer is yes, you could be exactly who we are seeking.
The Role
We’re looking for a Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager (HEO) to help us reach and connect with our target audiences. As an independent public body, the Judicial Appointments Commission is responsible for designing, planning, and running recruitment campaigns to select judges in the courts and tribunals, up to and including the High Court, as well as non-legal tribunal members. You can read more about our work on our website: http://judicialappointments.gov.uk
With a new recruitment campaign launched every couple of weeks, and statutory responsibilities to make sure we select candidates on merit and through fair and open competition, it’s essential that our processes are robust, inclusive, and attractive to candidates from the widest possible backgrounds. It’s also essential that our audiences and stakeholders understand our work and our commitment to supporting the creation of a more diverse judiciary. Our Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager plays a vital role in helping us to achieve that ambition.
As part of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach and Research (TOR) team, who have responsibility for supporting judicial applicants from underrepresented groups, the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager will lead key projects aimed at improving judicial diversity. They will play a central role in coordinating our engagement with our target audiences, managing our rolling stakeholder events calendar, and leading on the design, delivery, and evaluation of remote and face to face outreach events.
The successful applicant will lead promotion of our initiatives across a range of partners and stakeholders to encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to consider applying for judicial appointment. The role will also play an important part in supporting the Targeted Outreach Team’s Judicial Guide Scheme – which matches experienced judges with candidates from diverse backgrounds during their application journey.
You can read more about the work of the JAC’s Targeted Outreach Team here: Targeted Outreach and Research Team – Judicial Appointments Commission.
This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys working in a small but dynamic team, collaborating with colleagues who are passionate about the JAC’s mission.
Main Responsibilities
Reporting to the Senior Project Delivery Manager of the Targeted Outreach and Research (TOR) team, your main responsibilities will be to:
Lead stakeholder interaction for the TOR team by developing a programme of rolling outreach and engagement activities that links to the judicial recruitment programme and TOR initiatives.
Ensure stakeholders are kept appropriately informed on the TOR teams work via regular newsletters, blog posts and articles, and constructively contribute their perspective and specialist input.
Maintain and implement a stakeholder strategy and action plan to direct engagement of existing and emerging stakeholders. Ensure TOR team activities align with JAC diversity strategy and complement outreach and engagement work undertaken elsewhere in the JAC and wider MoJ.
Oversee liaison with external stakeholders to arrange TOR team attendance at remote and face to face outreach events, draft content for outreach briefings, prepare materials for use at outreach events and deliver presentations.
Develop, implement, and evaluate audience feedback tools and data, to support and enhance outreach with user led insights.
Support ongoing strands of research focussed on the Commission’s 2025 priorities around neurodiverse candidates and better understanding barriers for black candidates.
Collaborate and coordinate with the JAC’s Diversity, Engagement and Communications team and relevant stakeholders to develop and engage existing and new candidate pools, prioritising underrepresented and harder to reach groups.
Work with the Directors of Training for the TOR Judicial Guide Scheme to deliver, evaluate and expand the training offer for volunteer judges.
Manage and update corresponding stakeholder engagement tools and databases, and compile reports and internal and external updates.
Work with TOR statistics leads to support the monitoring of progress of Targeted Outreach participants through the JAC selection process to inform updates.
We are a small team who work collaboratively, and the Targeted Outreach and Engagement Manager may need to get involved in other projects and work beyond what is listed above to support the wider TOR team (and wider organisation).