21570 - Stakeholder & Engagement Manager

Stakeholder & Engagement Manager

Location: National*

Interviews: from 29 September 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, Job share

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 3

Vacancy number: 21570

*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

We’re recruiting for a Stakeholder & Engagement Manager here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategic Engagement team.

This is a pivotal coordination and engagement role, focused on improving how we communicate about the products and services we build, and the outcomes we deliver. You will work at the centre of engagement and communications within Justice Digital, Data and Science and have a dedicated focus on a specific business unit area connecting delivery teams with central communications functions to ensure the right information is available, aligned, and used effectively.

You will play a key role in improving the visibility of delivery and impact, and in ensuring stakeholders have a clear and consistent understanding of priorities and progress, as well as blockers and the support we need to remove them.

This is not a standalone communications role. Instead, it focuses on coordinating, shaping and enabling engagement and communications activity within the specific business area.

You’ll 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 King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life 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:

• Surface delivery progress and outcomes, and shape narrative

• Proactively identify key delivery milestones, priorities and impact

• Translate complex delivery activity into clear, accessible messaging and outputs

• Maintain forward visibility of upcoming activity to support proactive engagement

Coordinate with communications teams

• Act as the interface between a specific delivery area within Justice Digital, Data and Science and the central Justice Digital, Data and Science Strategic Engagement team.

• Provide high-quality, timely content and context to support communications planning and delivery

• Ensure alignment of messaging across teams, stakeholders and end users

Commission and coordinate inputs

• Coordinate inputs from delivery teams to support engagement and communication needs

• Commission briefings, artefacts and supporting materials where required

• Ensure consistency, accuracy and quality of outputs

Manage stakeholder relationships

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Act as a key point of contact for engagement relating to delivery activity

• Support joined up working across teams, including with partner organisations

Enable reuse and reduce demand

• Develop and maintain a repository of key materials (e.g. briefings, slides, case studies)

• Ensure materials are accessible and reusable to reduce duplication
• Support responses to information requests effectively and efficiently

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

• Strong experience of stakeholder engagement across complex organisations

• Strong experience of working in a matrix / interface / business partnering environment

• Ability to translate technical and delivery detail into clear, meaningful messaging appropriate to different audiences

• Communicating and Influencing

• Working Together

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

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. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Salary Information**

Base salary for this role is from London: £49,325 - £53,081; National: £42,914 - £46,182

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.

• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.

• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.

How to Apply

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:

• A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
• Answers to three Experience Questions (no more than 500 words each) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. They should specifically address the three criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.

1. Strong experience of stakeholder engagement across complex organisations
2. Strong experience of working in a matrix / interface / business partnering environment
3. Ability to translate technical and delivery detail into clear, meaningful messaging appropriate to different audiences

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance

Stage 2 - Interviews:

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience the following Behaviours:

• Strong experience of stakeholder engagement across complex organisations

• Strong experience of working in a matrix / interface / business partnering environment

• Ability to translate technical and delivery detail into clear, meaningful messaging appropriate to different audiences

• Communicating and Influencing

• Working Together

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, ‘strong experience of stakeholder engagement across complex organisations’ will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

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.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk