Overview

Digital Business Continuity Manager. Location: National. Closing Date: 19 September 2025. Interviews: from 01 October 2025. Grade: SEO. Salary: London: £49,325 - £53,081; National: £42,914 - £46,182. Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working. Contract Type: Permanent.

*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.*

Role

We’re recruiting for a Digital Business Continuity Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Finance, Assurance, Compliance & Transformation team. The Finance, Assurance, Compliance & Transformation Team supports wider Justice Digital in managing its financial processes and tracking its spend. We are responsible for centralised responses to commissions (requests for information) both internal and external to the MoJ, as well as working closely with the Justice Digital Senior Leadership Team to maximise opportunities to deliver on our strategic objectives. We also work with the Cabinet Office and the Central Digital & Data Office to ensure that all spending is compliant with cross-government standards and controls and that we adhere to MoJ and cross-government standards. The Digital Compliance Team supports Justice Digital and the wider Ministry of Justice in providing a consistent approach to Digital & Technology delivery.

The team is comprised of four functions:

• Business Continuity – the Business Continuity Team is in place to help delivery teams to build, test, and obtain sign off for their business continuity plans.
• Audit – the Audit Team provides a service to Justice Digital, providing a consistent response to external audit requests as well as ensuring Justice Digital is running as efficiently as possible.
• Digital Assurance – the Digital Assurance Team provides an interface between CDDO & Justice Digital and manages all Digital & Technology Spend Approval for the whole of the Ministry of Justice.
• Standards – the Standards Team provide a one stop shop for Justice Digital on Government functional, digital and technology standards, ensuring that all digital and technology standards are applied consistently.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Continuity Planning: Partner with teams across Justice Digital to guide and support them in producing comprehensive business continuity plans with mitigation procedures to respond and recover from disruptions.
• Support Justice Digital Teams with identifying critical business functions and processes, establishing strategies and measures to mitigate risks and minimise downtime.
• Collaborate with business areas and facilitate workshops to carry out business impact assessments, recording and reviewing them regularly to assess risks and quantify impacts.
• Guide and support teams in defining critical business process objectives, including planning recovery times (RTOs) and recovery points (RPOs).
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Assist Justice Digital Teams with risk assessments to identify threats, vulnerabilities and single points of failure; provide advice on mitigation strategies.
• Stay updated on emerging risks, industry trends and regulatory requirements related to business continuity and incorporate them into the engagement process.
• Business Continuity Testing and Maintenance: Support all areas in implementing Business Continuity Plans, including regular testing exercises (e.g., tabletop simulations) to validate effectiveness.
• Support lesson management by analysing test results and engaging with areas to update plans and procedures accordingly.
• Support the Digital BC Lead in facilitating training and exercising programs to educate employees on their roles during disruptions.
• Crisis Management and Incident Response: Support the crisis management framework and incident response procedures to effectively manage emergencies and disruptions; support teams when invoking their Business Continuity Plans.
• Documentation and Reporting: Ensure all Justice Digital departments maintain up-to-date documentation of business continuity plans, procedures and incident reports; prepare regular reports on metrics and program effectiveness for senior management and regulatory purposes.
• Support Digital BC Lead in ensuring compliance with industry standards, regulations and best practices related to business continuity.

If this feels like an exciting challenge and you want to join our team, please read on and apply.