Job Description

Executive Officer - Ministry of Justice

Location: Leeds (Hybrid 2-3 days in the office, the other days working from home)

Pay: £14.09

Job Type: Temporary until 1/12/2025

Sector: Public Sector

Hours: 37 hours a week

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About the Client:

The Ministry of Justice is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. They work to protect and advance the principles of justice. Their vision is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.

About the Role:

The Synergy Programme represents a step change in how we'll deliver corporate functions across MoJ, HO, Defra and DWP, which together make up almost half of the civil service.

The programme's purpose is to enable better public services through better ways of working, supporting more than a quarter of a million officials and public servants who deliver some of the most vital and high-risk public services in our country.

Synergy's mission is to make working lives easier and help deliver crucial public services by providing systems that are smarter, faster, more intuitive, and are designed around the needs of the user.

We're transforming the way we deliver corporate services in government, simplifying the way we do things, joining up functions, and showing how deep the benefits of partnership run.

Synergy's objectives are to:
- ?simplify and operate through an optimised Shared Services Centre
- ?improve user experience
- improve data quality and reporting
- provide service continuity and foundation for service enhancements
- demonstrate value for money

This assignment within the MOJ Synergy PMO Team will be to provide administrative and project support to PMO leads and project leads and projects that will deliver the Synergy programme

This will include, but is not limited to: -

- Assist with and maintaining project plans and Plan on a Page documents to support reporting and monitoring
- Assist in developing and producing project reports and programme reports
- Responsible for project file management using robust version control.
- Organise key project meetings and provide secretariat support for board meetings and design authorities including minute taking and action management.
- Financial tracking - Assist with the monitor of project spend including raising and managing Purchase Orders through SOP.
- Assist with and maintain risk and issue logs, escalating as appropriate.
- Support maintenance of all programme resourcing data and resource dashboard.
- Manage the on boarding and off boarding process for programme resources
- Rationally manage the PMO mailbox, tracking commissions and coordinating responses to all communications.
Limited travel will be required.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, apply now!

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In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.