Senior Project Manager (Ref: 21370)

Senior Project Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 7th September 2026

Interviews: 16th September onwards

Grade: Grade 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: London: 63,343 70,725

National: 58,511 65,329

Working pattern : Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 4

Vacancy number: 21370

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

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Were recruiting for Senior Project Managershere at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Project Delivery team.

The Justice Digital, Data and Science Project Delivery Team is responsible for the delivery of digital and technology projects across the whole of the Ministry of Justice.

We are recruiting four Senior Project Managers to take full responsibility for the definition, documentation and satisfactory completion of either a single major project, or several smaller initiatives.

Senior Project Managers ensure teams have the right environment to deliver the vision, products and services, iteratively and ensure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important. They work at the heart of teams to provide direction within a project, service or programme. They are accountable for building, motivating, supporting and facilitating teams as well as removing obstacles and blockers that get in their way. They challenge approaches inside and outside of the team they are working with and facilitate a focus on the outcome.

Senior Project Managers proactively manage dependencies, identify and manage priorities, overcome obstacles and get the best value against constraints managing risks, budgets and people. They also assess and evaluate the business readiness for change and manage all aspects of the governance of projects ensuring continued integrity and coherence is maintained and are responsible for working proactively, effectively and collaboratively with several external supplier organisations

Youll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

· A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

· 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the Kings birthday .

· Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive worklife balance.

· Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.

· A 1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.

· Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here . To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Project Manager takes responsibility for the definition, documentation and safe execution of a single major project or several smaller initiatives, actively participating in all phases of the project and identifies, assesses and manages risks to its success.

Identifying and comparing the best processes or delivery methods to use and recognise when something does not work and encourage a mindset of experimentation. You will adapt and reflect, are resilient and can see outside of the process.

Use a blended approach depending on the context, measure and evaluate outcomes and help teams to manage and visualise outcomes.

Work with Change Management professionals to implement business change.

Manage stakeholder expectations, with proactive and reactive communication skills, facilitating difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.

Facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo and actively addressing internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team.

Add value and coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. Guide teams and the business through the implementation of a new process.

Understand the environment and prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. Use data to inform planning and manage complex internal and external dependencies. Provide delivery confidence. Ability to Remove blockers or impediments that affect the plan and develop a plan for difficult situations. Ensure teams plan appropriately for their capacity.

Empower and bring people together to form a motivated team. Help create the right environment for a team to work in, recognise and deal with issues and facilitate the best team makeup depending on the situation.

Act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers. Understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department. Understand how and when third parties should be brought into Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) projects. Experience of managing a procurement as part of a project either as a G Cloud offering or meeting OJEU regulations.

Balance cost versus value. Consider the impact of user needs. Report on financial delivery. Monitor cost and budget and escalate issues.

Develop and manage government Business Cases with input from specialists. Manage and deliver the Business Case process including through to delivery of an appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy.

Develop, support, and manage appropriate governance, assurance and decision making at all points throughout a project lifecycle.

Recognise when to move from one stage of a project lifecycle to another. Ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase. Manage the delivery projects or services at different phases.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential

Experience working in digital, waterfall or hybrid methodologies and able to recognise and influence the correct methodologies for delivery

Experience of taking ownership of problems and show initiative in aligning the necessary resources to bring about a successful outcome for the business.

Youll understand user needs, based upon evidence and engage in meaningful interactions and relationship, to translate user stories and propose design ...