Transformation Lead

**General Information**:

- Salary
- The national salary range is £58,511 - £65,329, London salary range is £63,343 - £70,725. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
- Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
- Vacancy Approach
- Cross Government
- Location
- London, National
- Region
- London, National
- Closing Date
- 25-Sep-2025
- Post Type
- Loan
- Civil Service Grade
- Grade 7
- Number of jobs available
- 1
- Reserve List
- 12 Months
- Job ID
- 9802

**Descriptions & requirements**:

- Job description

**Transformation Lead**

**Grade 7**

**Location**:
- 102 Petty France, London
- National

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your chosen base location.

**Ways of Working**

At the MoJ we believe and promote alternative ways of working, these roles are available as:

- Full-time, part-time or the option to job share
- Flexible working patterns

**Salary**

Existing Civil Servants will have their salary calculated in accordance with the Department’s pay on transfer / pay on promotion rules.

**The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)**

MoJ is the largest government department, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £10 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.

This role sits within the Service Strategy & Transformation Directorate. We are responsible for:

- Working across the Service Transformation Group (with Justice Digital, the Legal Aid Agency, Office of the Public Guardian and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority), to understand and drive collaboration on current transformation and digital plans
- Supporting digital development and innovation to enhance the victim experience throughout the criminal justice (CJ) process, implement recommendations from the Independent Sentencing Review and support probation workers in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)
- Identifying, encouraging and delivering new ways of working, acting as a critical friend to delivery partners and collaborating with a wider range of stakeholders to improve experiences for those in, and working with, the CJ system.
- Identifying cross-cutting transformation opportunities across the Ministry of Justice that can drive cutting-edge digital delivery, user experience, efficiencies and delivery of policy goals
- Baselining and supporting performance and prioritisation across the Service Transformation Group
- Bringing together all areas of the Group to collectively create a clear and compelling narrative for delivery over the next 3-5 years.
- Engaging across the Ministry of Justice and its agencies to gain buy-in and support for our initiatives.

Working
- ly with the Director General for Service Transformation to support strategic and analytical activity.

**Transformation Lead -**the role**

We are recruiting a **Transformation Lead** to play a pivotal role in delivering ExCo’s transformation priorities. You will take strategies and high-level priorities and translate them into **actionable programmes of work**, ensuring ideas are delivered, adopted and sustained.

We want applicants who can **bridge the gap between strategy and delivery** and leaders who can make change real, bring people with them, and embed transformation sustainably. This role will suit someone with strategy, policy and engagement experience who also thrives in **turning ideas into delivery that sticks**. You will be responsible for embedding cross-cutting delivery, coaching teams on new ways of working, and ensuring transformation sticks in BAU.

**Key Responsibilities**
- **Operationalise Strategy**: Take forward priorities set by the Strategy Team and senior leadership, shaping them into tangible outcomes, delivery roadmaps and embedding them into existing systems.
- **Lead Complex Initiatives**: Manage high-profile transformation projects, overseeing a transformation, priorities projects team and/or pilots (pathfinders), coordinating multi-disciplinary teams across policy, operations and technology.
- **Embed Ways of Working**: Model and coach agile, iterative, cross-functional approaches. Foster a culture of learning, experimentation and continuous improvement, encouraging teams across MoJ to think and work differently.
- **Stakeholder Engagement**: Build strong relationships across MoJ, agencies, and frontline operational staff, securing buy-in and ensuring solutions are grounded in reality.
- **Change Adoption**: Ensure new processes, tools and approaches are not just piloted but embedded into BAU, creating long-term value.
- **Measure Impact**: Use data and analysis to track outcomes, assess adoption, and demonstrate the value of transformation initiatives.
- **Line Management**: Support and develop Transformation Advisors, providing leadership and coaching within the Transformation Division.

**Skills and Exp