21436 - Data Ethics and Literacy Hub Officer (National)


Company:	Ministry of Justice
Salary:	£35,335 - £42,859
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	National, NP10 8FZ
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 3 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Aug 2026
Closing date:	7 Sept 2026

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Summary

Data Ethics and Literacy Hub Officer

Location: National*

Closing Date: 7th September 2026

Interviews: Rolling – from 26th August 2026 – 18th September 2026

Grade: HEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: National: £35,335 - £37,847

London: £40,014 - £42,859

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working,

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 10

Vacancy number: 21436

*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 Data Ethics and Literacy Hub Officers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Ethics and Literacy Hub team.

There are several roles available, and the final allocation across the Data Ethics and Data Literacy teams will be 6 x Data Ethics Officers and 4 x Data Literacy Officers. All roles will sit within the Data Ethics and Literacy Hub, where our mission is to build trust and confidence in how the MoJ uses data and AI by strengthening data and AI literacy skills and embedding ethical principles into data and AI work across the organisation.

Data Ethics and Data Literacy Officers will play a key enabling role in supporting the delivery, coordination and continuous improvement of the Data Ethics and Literacy Hub.

Postholders will provide operational, coordination and engagement support across specific work areas, helping specialist leads and SMEs to focus on expert delivery, while strengthening organisational engagement, culture change and visibility across data ethics and data literacy. You will support our SEOs to deliver against specific objectives and workstreams.

This is a varied, collaborative and outward facing role suited to someone who enjoys working across multiple priorities, supporting delivery in a fast paced and collaborative environment, and contributing to culture change.

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:

• Supporting the implementation of governance or assurance processes linked to ethical and responsible use of data and AI via the MoJ AI and Data Science Ethics Framework.

• Working directly with project teams to provide practical data ethics support, such as coordinating assurance activity, ethics workshops, training sessions or learning resources.

• Inputting to our Data Ethics community and Champions Network and collating feedback, learning and insights to inform continuous improvement.

• Supporting community building initiatives across MoJ and government, including the Data Literacy Community of Practice and champions' network.

• Working with the Data Literacy Managers to contribute to the development and maintenance of learning resources, toolkits, and frameworks to support responsible data use.

• Supporting the management of commercial contracts for online learning platforms.

• Supporting engagement, community and communications activity across the Hub, helping to promote data ethics and data literacy initiatives to a wide range of audiences.

• Helping to build and sustain relationships with stakeholders across Justice Data, wider MoJ, arms-length bodies and cross government networks, contributing to a joined up and collaborative culture.

• Acting as an advocate for data ethics and data literacy, building capability and confidence across teams.

• Identifying opportunities to improve operational processes, workflows and ways of working, contributing to increased resilience, efficiency and delivery confidence across the Hub.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

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