Senior Governance Manager
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Job description
The Senior Governance Manager plays a vital role within CICA, overseeing risk management, information assurance, fraud prevention and health and safety activities within the organisation to ensure effective decision making and compliance with statutory requirements.
The post holder reports into the Director of Corporate Services and represents their area at the Executive Management Committee (EMC), the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC) and the CICA Board. You will lead a small team of nine, with direct line management responsibility for four people, overseeing workstreams covering data protection, information asset management, Subject Access Requests (SARs), Freedom of Information (FOI) and Health and Safety. Additionally, you will also be responsible for ensuring that CICA continues to develop its policies in these areas, co-ordinating the identification, assessment, management and monitoring of risk to embed a strong, proactive culture throughout the organisation.
As a member of the senior leadership team you will work collaboratively with different business functions across CICA, acting as a champion for best practice in information assurance and risk management.
Duties and responsibilities
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Lead the organisation's approach to risk, fraud prevention and information assurance, providing expert advice as appropriate.
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Oversight of managing SAR and Freedom of Information requests within statutory timeframes.
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Continuously improve CICA's risk management framework, including maintaining the strategic risk register and presenting at appropriate Boards, ensuring alignment with wider MoJ risk management and Orange Book requirements.
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Maintain CICA policy and processes on data protection and counter fraud in line with best practice and legislative requirements, including robust processes for incident management.
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Oversee compliance with relevant Health and Safety legislation and Business Continuity activities.
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Engage with senior leaders across the organisation to ensure a high level of understanding of the importance of good information asset management and security, advising on information risk and taking action to increase awareness as appropriate.
Work ly with MoJ Data Protection Officer and the CICA Senior Information Risk Owner to manage risk, providing performance and compliance data, and undertaking information audits w
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required to effectively manage data governance.
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Managing and providing leadership within your area, contributing towards meeting CICA business objectives and KPIs and delivery of actions within the Business Plan., The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements w business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity.
Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone's circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
For nationally advertised role: all successful candidates will be appointed to the nearest viable office nearest to their home postcode and on its respective pay scale. This will be at either a HQ building (subject to desk allocation, a Justice Collaboration Centre (JCC) or a Justice Satellite Office (JSO) - See Map. All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estate capacity).
For current MoJ employees, your base location will need to be changed to the nearest viable office (to your home postcode), either at a HQ building, JCC or JSO within the National Office Network and moved its location's respective pay scale (any legacy arrangements/locations will need to be amended).
Some of MoJ's terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain their grade on lateral transfer.
All candidates who are currently in receipt of Mark Time / Pay Protection should ensure they are familiar with the new policy on permanent and temporary promotion which can be found on the employee intranet.
Flexible working hours
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. MoJ welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, w they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ's Flexible Working policy., Expected April 2026 Behaviours Leadership Managing a Quality Service Delivering at Pace Making Effective Decisions Strengths Strengths will be assessed but these are not shared in advance. To learn more about Strengths and how they are assessed .
Requirements
Do you have experience in Presentation skills?, * Experience working in information assurance either in data protection, FOIs, SARs and/or related areas.
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Experience of utilising risk management frameworks and counter fraud protocols.
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Experience of Health and Safety and Business Continuity processes.
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Strong leadership/management skills developed through experience managing teams.
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Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise in order to deliver successful business outcomes.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to explain complex information in a clear and simple way to a variety of audiences including senior stakeholders.
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Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, offering constructive challenge across all organisational levels.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable previous experience obtained within a similar role at a similar level., Presentation Level of security checks required Baseline Personnal Security Standard (BPSS)
Benefits & conditions
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Childcare
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Annual leave
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Employee discount
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Company pension
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Transport links
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Flexible schedule, If successful at Stage 1, you will be invited to interview, which will incorporate a short presentation. You will be notified of the presentation topic in your invitation to interview. At the interview we will assess you against the behaviours listed below:
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Leadership
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Managing a Quality Service
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Delivering at Pace
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Making Effective Decisions
At interview you will be asked a number of behaviour and strength-based questions.
Interviews are likely to take place in April at our office at 10 Clyde Place, Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow G5 8AQ.
Following the closing date, this job advertisement will no longer be available to view. You may wish to retain a copy for your records.
A reserve list will be created and will be valid for 12 months. If further vacancies arise for this or similar roles within the organisation, candidates may be appointed from the reserve list in order of merit.
We offer flexible working 7am - 7pm, Monday to Friday. However, we ask that candidates make themselves available to attend the office on a full-time, fixed hours basis (9am to 5pm) for the initial training period which takes up to 10 weeks. This is to ensure the best training and consolidation experience for new colleagues.
This role is offered on a full-time (37 hours per week) basis., The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
Annual Leave
Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years' service.
T is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Training
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Networks
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. T are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Support
- A range of 'Family Friendly' policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- For moves to or from another employer or moves across the Civil Service this can have implications on your eligibility to carry on claiming childcare vouchers. You may however be eligible for alternative government childcare support schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. More information can be found on www.GOV.UK or Childcare Choices. You can determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order
- To Transformative Business Services (0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk);
- To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team (resourcing-management-office@justice.gov.uk); To the Civil Service Commission (details available
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As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace. MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
