9003 - Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance - Justice AI Unit
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £71,381 i £85,257 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | The national salary is £71,381 - £80,419, London salary is £75,674 - £85,257. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | CF10 2HH |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 9003 |
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Role Purpose
As the lead for AI governance within the Justice AI Unit, reporting to the Chief AI Officer, you will design, implement, and oversee robust yet proportionate frameworks, policies, and controls that ensure every AI system remains secure, ethical, and lawful.
You will be a key member of the Government Security Profession and work closely with colleagues across security, risk, data, and digital functions. Your role includes briefing senior leaders on strategic AI risks, guiding delivery teams throughout the AI lifecycle, and championing best practices across the justice system.
Your remit spans governance, ethics, technical guidance and assurance, and incident response. You will play a central role in embedding a culture of excellence in safe and responsible AI across the department and its partners.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
MoJ is one of the largest government departments, employing over 90,000 people (including those in the Probation Service), with a budget of approximately £9.5 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Service Transformation Group
The Justice AI Unit is part of the Service
Transformation Group (STG). STG is unique, both within the Ministry of Justice and across government. This group unites our digital, data, transformation, security, project and AI capabilities with some of our largest operational agencies, including:
• The Legal Aid Agency, which provides funding for legal advice and representation for those who cannot afford it.
• The Office of the Public Guardian, which supports people in planning for someone to make decisions on their behalf should they lose capacity.
• The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, which compensates victims of violent crime for physical or psychological injuries.
Service Transformation Group leads on delivering key justice services, and the modernisation and digital transformation of the MoJ. The Groups ensures that our public services are simple, seamless and offer excellent value for money.
The Justice AI Unit
The Justice AI Unit is an interdisciplinary team of AI specialists, designers, technologists, and operational experts working to embed responsible AI across the justice system. We exist to enable the safe and ethical adoption of AI across the MoJ and its agencies, helping our people deliver faster, better and more human services.
What the Justice AI Unit does:
• It sets and continually evolves a department-wide AI vision and Action Plan in partnership with policy, data, digital and operational teams etc. as well as external R&D bodies;
• It enables end-to-end governance and ethics by maintaining a unified AI portfolio, developing risk-assessment tools and embedding expertise into assurance processes;
• It scans, pilots and scales core AI digital products and acts in an advisory function to other changes teams.
• It acts as an AI talent incubator, recruiting, developing and embedding specialists across justice programmes to maximise opportunities and share best practice;
• It supports the equipment of the MoJ workforce through a Justice AI Academy that offers literacy programmes, technical training, certifications, adoption support and culture-change initiatives;
• It informs the shape of the future workforce by assessing AI’s impact on users and staff and informing proactive workforce planning and re-skilling;
• It partners with experts across government, industry, and academia to encourage innovation and growth.
Guided by a strong public-service mission, the Justice AI Unit lives by three core values:
• Human-centered - We will design AI tools that augment human capabilities and put the needs of users first
• Put safety and fairness first - AI in justice must work within the law, protect individual rights, and maintain public trust.
• Innovative - We embrace responsible innovation, constantly exploring new ways AI can improve justice outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
As Head of AI Governance, you will:
• Create and apply AI governance and risk management frameworks that fit with the wider digital and corporate governance strategies. You’ll make sure risk management is built into key processes like developing AI systems, designing secure architectures, and purchasing technology.
• Look after the organisation’s AI risk register, making sure all AI-related risks are clearly recorded, with the right controls and actions in place to handle them.
• Lead department-wide AI risk reporting, making sure senior leaders understand key risks, and working across teams to manage issues that affect multiple parts of the organisation.
• Ensure that all AI activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, standards and policies (e.g. Government Security Framework, DSP-SOR, ISO 27001, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and the UK AI White Paper) and staying on top of changes in legal and policy landscapes to keep the organisation up to date.
• Build ethical, secure, and safe practices into every stage of the AI model lifecycle and supplier chain and make sure the MoJ’s AI and Data Ethics Framework is put into practice.
• Oversee the technical and security testing of AI platforms and models to ensure they meet required standards.
• Lead checks on suppliers and their AI systems, making sure they meet MoJ’s expectations for responsible and secure AI use.
• Manage the publication of ATRS (Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard) reports, promoting openness and accountability in how AI is used.
• Advise senior leaders and teams across the department on AI governance, risk, and compliance matters.
As the lead for AI governance within the Justice AI Unit, reporting to the Chief AI Officer, you will design, implement, and oversee robust yet proportionate frameworks, policies, and controls that ensure every AI system remains secure, ethical, and lawful.
You will be a key member of the Government Security Profession and work closely with colleagues across security, risk, data, and digital functions. Your role includes briefing senior leaders on strategic AI risks, guiding delivery teams throughout the AI lifecycle, and championing best practices across the justice system.
Your remit spans governance, ethics, technical guidance and assurance, and incident response. You will play a central role in embedding a culture of excellence in safe and responsible AI across the department and its partners.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
MoJ is one of the largest government departments, employing over 90,000 people (including those in the Probation Service), with a budget of approximately £9.5 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Service Transformation Group
The Justice AI Unit is part of the Service
Transformation Group (STG). STG is unique, both within the Ministry of Justice and across government. This group unites our digital, data, transformation, security, project and AI capabilities with some of our largest operational agencies, including:
• The Legal Aid Agency, which provides funding for legal advice and representation for those who cannot afford it.
• The Office of the Public Guardian, which supports people in planning for someone to make decisions on their behalf should they lose capacity.
• The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, which compensates victims of violent crime for physical or psychological injuries.
Service Transformation Group leads on delivering key justice services, and the modernisation and digital transformation of the MoJ. The Groups ensures that our public services are simple, seamless and offer excellent value for money.
The Justice AI Unit
The Justice AI Unit is an interdisciplinary team of AI specialists, designers, technologists, and operational experts working to embed responsible AI across the justice system. We exist to enable the safe and ethical adoption of AI across the MoJ and its agencies, helping our people deliver faster, better and more human services.
What the Justice AI Unit does:
• It sets and continually evolves a department-wide AI vision and Action Plan in partnership with policy, data, digital and operational teams etc. as well as external R&D bodies;
• It enables end-to-end governance and ethics by maintaining a unified AI portfolio, developing risk-assessment tools and embedding expertise into assurance processes;
• It scans, pilots and scales core AI digital products and acts in an advisory function to other changes teams.
• It acts as an AI talent incubator, recruiting, developing and embedding specialists across justice programmes to maximise opportunities and share best practice;
• It supports the equipment of the MoJ workforce through a Justice AI Academy that offers literacy programmes, technical training, certifications, adoption support and culture-change initiatives;
• It informs the shape of the future workforce by assessing AI’s impact on users and staff and informing proactive workforce planning and re-skilling;
• It partners with experts across government, industry, and academia to encourage innovation and growth.
Guided by a strong public-service mission, the Justice AI Unit lives by three core values:
• Human-centered - We will design AI tools that augment human capabilities and put the needs of users first
• Put safety and fairness first - AI in justice must work within the law, protect individual rights, and maintain public trust.
• Innovative - We embrace responsible innovation, constantly exploring new ways AI can improve justice outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
As Head of AI Governance, you will:
• Create and apply AI governance and risk management frameworks that fit with the wider digital and corporate governance strategies. You’ll make sure risk management is built into key processes like developing AI systems, designing secure architectures, and purchasing technology.
• Look after the organisation’s AI risk register, making sure all AI-related risks are clearly recorded, with the right controls and actions in place to handle them.
• Lead department-wide AI risk reporting, making sure senior leaders understand key risks, and working across teams to manage issues that affect multiple parts of the organisation.
• Ensure that all AI activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, standards and policies (e.g. Government Security Framework, DSP-SOR, ISO 27001, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and the UK AI White Paper) and staying on top of changes in legal and policy landscapes to keep the organisation up to date.
• Build ethical, secure, and safe practices into every stage of the AI model lifecycle and supplier chain and make sure the MoJ’s AI and Data Ethics Framework is put into practice.
• Oversee the technical and security testing of AI platforms and models to ensure they meet required standards.
• Lead checks on suppliers and their AI systems, making sure they meet MoJ’s expectations for responsible and secure AI use.
• Manage the publication of ATRS (Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard) reports, promoting openness and accountability in how AI is used.
• Advise senior leaders and teams across the department on AI governance, risk, and compliance matters.