10397 - Director, Wales Office
| Posting date: | 29 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £100,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2025 |
| Location: | CF10 1EP |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10397 |
Summary
Key Responsibilities
Supporting Ministers in cross-government work to strengthen the United Kingdom and Wales’s place within it, including:
Key adviser to Ministers. Responsible for provision of quality advice, across the full range of devolved and non-devolved subjects, often at short notice.
Responsible for line management of the Senior Leadership Team with wider leadership responsibility for a team of approximately fifty staff across Cardiff and London.
Overall responsibility for corporate services, strategy and planning; ensuring alignment between resources and priorities; seeking continuous improvement in processes and performance. Managing a budget of around £6m efficiently and effectively.
Leading and motivating staff to meet challenging Ministerial objectives in a fast-moving environment; and demonstrating wider leadership across Government in developing a cross-cutting strategy and narrative on Wales.
Managing Wales Office relationships with Ministers (including in other Government Departments), the Welsh Government, Whitehall, and external stakeholders to the benefit of Wales Office's strategic objectives.
Principal Accounting Officer for Wales Office (c £6m p.a.) and transfer of resources to Welsh Ministers (£15bn p.a.) and ensuring the highest standards of internal controls and public sector governance.
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the postholder
Supporting Ministers in cross-government work to strengthen the United Kingdom and Wales’s place within it, including:
Key adviser to Ministers. Responsible for provision of quality advice, across the full range of devolved and non-devolved subjects, often at short notice.
Responsible for line management of the Senior Leadership Team with wider leadership responsibility for a team of approximately fifty staff across Cardiff and London.
Overall responsibility for corporate services, strategy and planning; ensuring alignment between resources and priorities; seeking continuous improvement in processes and performance. Managing a budget of around £6m efficiently and effectively.
Leading and motivating staff to meet challenging Ministerial objectives in a fast-moving environment; and demonstrating wider leadership across Government in developing a cross-cutting strategy and narrative on Wales.
Managing Wales Office relationships with Ministers (including in other Government Departments), the Welsh Government, Whitehall, and external stakeholders to the benefit of Wales Office's strategic objectives.
Principal Accounting Officer for Wales Office (c £6m p.a.) and transfer of resources to Welsh Ministers (£15bn p.a.) and ensuring the highest standards of internal controls and public sector governance.
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the postholder