Strategic Priorities Manager

Location: National

Closing Date: 22nd January 2026

Interviews: w/c 2nd February 2026

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

Salary: London: £49,325 - £53,081; National: £42,914 - £46,182

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

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 13458

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office.

The Role

We’re recruiting for up to two Strategic Priorities Managers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital & Data Enabling Services Team, part of the CDIO Group. The Strategic Priorities Team supports the smooth and effective running of the Justice Digital function; it is an opportunity to work at the most senior levels of the function and influence the way in which the function operates, as well as to build a broader understanding of the MoJ as a whole.

This is a varied role that requires an awareness of, and interest in, both the strategy and ways of working of Justice Digital, the Service Delivery Transformation Group, and the Ministry more broadly. It has a wide remit that requires effective management and co-ordination, quick thinking, and the ability to facilitate and persuade. You will face tight deadlines for work and will need to manage your time effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Strategic Priorities Manager will deal with information requests and commissions from the Director General’s office as well as other internal and external sources.
• You will be responsible for prioritising incoming requests, collating the relevant information and drafting the response, all within a demanding timeline and from varied sources across Justice Digital.
• You will also be responsible for supporting the Strategic Priorities Lead on private office functions and organising SLT events.
• Manage key relationships with MoJ and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with Business Managers and Chiefs of Staff to ensure that the Directors have access to the right information at the right time.
• Be credible across departments.
• Be responsive to change and manage time effectively.
• Be a proactive member in a team which ensures the SLT is focussed on the right things.
• Maintain a forward plan of corporate, delivery and operational activities to inform SLT agendas.
• Support in ensuring that all recurring SLT events are sent in good time and have the correct attendees.
• Contribute to the building of agendas for SLT meetings to ensure they are discussing the right things at the right time.
• Maintain the plan for, and record of, the right information for SLT sessions to enable data-led decision-making.
• Build productive and collaborative relationships with the Director General’s Private Office.
• Maintain the process for responding to information requests and commissions, ensuring that all have been responded to in time, and have been cleared by the appropriate people.
• Prepare templates and introduce changes to improve the process for information handling.
• Draft responses using the correct templates.
• Support the team in the demanding and fast-paced environment of information handling and commissions.
• Manage any conflict that arises.
• Manage a continual planning process in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• 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.
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow.
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024.
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• 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.
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location).
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

• You can shift context across a wide range of subject matters and manage a wide range of issues with diplomacy and discretion.
• You can build relationships and trust easily with people at various levels of an organisation.
• You have experience of working with senior leaders and private offices to respond to, and deliver, complex requests for information.
• You are proactive and efficient, with the ability to deliver at pace.
• You are flexible, adaptable, and have a willingness to learn, recognising how people best work together and facilitating the best team make-up depending on the situation.
• You have experience in solving issues and unblocking problems, ensuring you are working towards delivery commitments, and have a proven track record of managing various dependencies across teams or areas of work.
• You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical, and political boundaries, understanding the context.
• You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit CV and Statement of Suitability (750 words max) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

Application Guidance

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process: Leadership, Communicating & Influencing, Delivering at Pace, Working Together.

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above. Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview, which may include a task, held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on “You have experience of working with senior leaders and private offices to respond to, and deliver, complex requests for information” will be conducted before the sift.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.