As the lead for AI governance within the Justice AI Unit, reporting to the Chief AI Officer, you will design, implement, and oversee robust yet proportionate frameworks, policies, and controls that ensure every AI system remains secure, ethical, and lawful.
You will be a key member of the Government Security Profession and work closely with colleagues across security, risk, data, and digital functions. Your role includes briefing senior leaders on strategic AI risks, guiding delivery teams throughout the AI lifecycle, and championing best practices across the justice system.
Your remit spans governance, ethics, technical guidance and assurance, and incident response. You will play a central role in embedding a culture of excellence in safe and responsible AI across the department and its partners., Service Transformation Group leads on delivering key justice services, and the modernisation and digital transformation of the MoJ. The Groups ensures that our public services are simple, seamless and offer excellent value for money.
The Justice AI Unit
The Justice AI Unit is an interdisciplinary team of AI specialists, designers, technologists, and operational experts working to embed responsible AI across the justice system. We exist to enable the safe and ethical adoption of AI across the MoJ and its agencies, helping our people deliver faster, better and more human services.
What the Justice AI Unit does:
+ It sets and continually evolves a department-wide AI vision and Action Plan in partnership with policy, data, digital and operational teams etc. as well as external R&D bodies;
+ It enables end-to-end governance and ethics by maintaining a unified AI portfolio, developing risk-assessment tools and embedding expertise into assurance processes;
+ It scans, pilots and scales core AI digital products and acts in an advisory function to other changes teams.
+ It acts as an AI talent incubator, recruiting, developing and embedding specialists across justice programmes to maximise opportunities and share best practice;
+ It supports the equipment of the MoJ workforce through a Justice AI Academy that offers literacy programmes, technical training, certifications, adoption support and culture-change initiatives;
+ It informs the shape of the future workforce by assessing AI's impact on users and staff and informing proactive workforce planning and re-skilling;
+ It partners with experts across government, industry, and academia to encourage innovation and growth.
Guided by a strong public-service mission, the Justice AI Unit lives by three core values:
+ Human-centered - We will design AI tools that augment human capabilities and put the needs of users first
+ Put safety and fairness first - AI in justice must work within the law, protect individual rights, and maintain public trust.
+ Innovative - We embrace responsible innovation, constantly exploring new ways AI can improve justice outcomes., As Head of AI Governance, you will:
+ Create and apply AI governance and risk management frameworks that fit with the wider digital and corporate governance strategies. You'll make sure risk management is built into key processes like developing AI systems, designing secure architectures, and purchasing technology.
+ Look after the organisation's AI risk register, making sure all AI-related risks are clearly recorded, with the right controls and actions in place to handle them.
+ Lead department-wide AI risk reporting, making sure senior leaders understand key risks, and working across teams to manage issues that affect multiple parts of the organisation.
+ Ensure that all AI activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, standards and policies (e.g. Government Security Framework, DSP-SOR, ISO 27001, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and the UK AI White Paper) and staying on top of changes in legal and policy landscapes to keep the organisation up to date.
+ Build ethical, secure, and safe practices into every stage of the AI model lifecycle and supplier chain and make sure the MoJ's AI and Data Ethics Framework is put into practice.
+ Oversee the technical and security testing of AI platforms and models to ensure they meet required standards.
+ Lead checks on suppliers and their AI systems, making sure they meet MoJ's expectations for responsible and secure AI use.
+ Manage the publication of ATRS (Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard) reports, promoting openness and accountability in how AI is used.
+ Advise senior leaders and teams across the department on AI governance, risk, and compliance matters.
+ Build and lead a small expert team that focuses on reviewing high-risk AI models, assessing suppliers, and helping teams across the MoJ follow AI policies and standards.
+ Be an active participant in the cross-government AI and security community and contribute to collective capability building., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Leadership
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Changing and Improving
+ Delivering at Pace, This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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The successful postholder for this role will be able to demonstrate:
+ Good knowledge of AI ethics, bias, and data protection law.
+ Experience of leading information risk assessment and corporate risk management in complex landscapes.
+ An ability to apply accreditation and assurance methodologies, with an understanding of protective security principles and risk management.
+ Experience of secure ML ops, model lifecycle and Large Language Model assurance
+ Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide tailored advice on how to remedy identified risks by proportionately applying security, data protection and ethical capabilities, using published guidance, standards.
Qualifications
+ Current SC clearance (or willing to obtain).
+ CISSP or CCP Security & Information Risk.
Desirable Criteria
+ Track record with regulators or government bodies.
+ AI governance certification
+ Experience of red teaming
+ Knowledge of public-sector procurement rules
+ ISO 27001, ISO 31000, ISO 27005 and ISO/IEC 42001
+ Awareness of corporate governance good practice standards
+ Knowledge of system architectures and ability to articulate the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future designs
MoJ is one of the largest government departments, employing over 90,000 people (including those in the Probation Service), with a budget of approximately £9.5 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Service Transformation Group
The Justice AI Unit is part of the Service Transformation Group (STG). STG is unique, both within the Ministry of Justice and across government. This group unites our digital, data, transformation, security, project and AI capabilities with some of our largest operational agencies, including:
+ The Legal Aid Agency, which provides funding for legal advice and representation for those who cannot afford it.
+ The Office of the Public Guardian, which supports people in planning for someone to make decisions on their behalf should they lose capacity.
+ The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, which compensates victims of violent crime for physical or psychological injuries.
Alongside your salary of £71,381, Ministry of Justice contributes £20,679 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ Access to learning and development
+ A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
+ A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
+ A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
+ Annual Leave
+ Public Holidays
+ Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
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