Data Gaps Lead

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for an inclusive and emotionally intelligent leader who has developed a highly functional and collaborative team.
• We need someone with high resilience and the ability to prioritise efforts to deliver maximum impact in shifting or uncertain environments.
• We need someone who can balance short-term and long-term priorities and pivot in response to external impacts.
• We are looking for someone who can engage credibly with analytical, technical, operational, and policy teams and influence senior leaders effectively.
• We need someone who can recognise the value of data and identify opportunities to improve it for downstream users.
• We are looking for experience working with multidisciplinary teams, particularly translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Successful candidates must be willing to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

Responsibilities:

• We will ask you to lead a team to understand and manage data requirements for a range of products and services across the business, including Digital, Data, Analysis, Policy, and HMPPS operations.
• We will expect you to engage with and influence senior partners across the MoJ and beyond to promote the value and use of data and support prioritisation, progress, and delivery.
• We will ask you to establish strong relationships with colleagues in Digital, Data, Analysis, Policy, and HMPPS to maintain a collaborative environment focused on high-quality outcomes and user needs.
• We will expect you to collaborate with Analysis, Strategy, and Policy teams to understand data requirements and shape how Digital teams can address them through new and existing services.
• We will ask you to work with technical partners in Data Science, Engineering, and Digital/IT teams to identify and deliver the right data solutions.
• We will ask you to support initiatives aimed at improving HMPPS data and contribute to broader business engagement as required.
• We will expect you to identify, prioritise, and help address priority gaps in prison data with operational, analytical, digital, and policy partners.
• We may ask you to pivot to support other data transformation priorities across the team as priorities evolve.

Technologies:

• Support
• Security
• Web

More:

We are the Ministry of Justice, recruiting for a Prisons Data Gaps Lead to join our warm and collaborative Prisons Data Transformation team. This is a national, permanent role at Grade 7 with flexible working options, including full-time, part-time, compressed hours, and hybrid working. The role is based nationally, with London recruitment limited to 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU for external candidates. We offer a generous benefits package including a Civil Service pension with a 28.97% employer contribution, 25 days of annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years, plus bank holidays and a privilege day, a learning budget, development time, and family-friendly leave policies. Our values are Purpose, Humanity, Openness and Together, and we are committed to inclusion, diversity, and supporting work-life balance.

last updated 36 week of 2026