Senior Policy Advisor for Recall PolicyMinistry of Justice

Cross Government Location Leeds, London 10-Sep-2026 Post Type Permanent, The national salary range is £42,914 - £46,182, London salary range is £49,325 - £53,081. Your salary will be dependent on your base location Working Pattern Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working This vacancy is only available to existing Civil Servant employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs). Please review the "Eligibility" section before you apply. General Information Salary The national salary range is £42,914 - £46,182, London salary range is £49,325 - £53,081. Your salary will be dependent on your base location

Posted 26 August 2026

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Job description

We are looking for a motivated policy professional to join a welcoming and supportive team to help address the challenge of the growing recall population. The role is fast paced, intellectually challenging and exciting, and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to work on an area which will make a real difference to how offenders are dealt with by the criminal justice system for years to come.

This is a busy team that receives a lot of interest from senior officials and ministers and is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the prison capacity challenge.

The job holder will be required to work flexibly to respond to ministerial priorities. Although the focus of the role will evolve, you will initially work to provide critical policy support to help monitor the impacts of our recall reforms within the Sentencing Act, as well as undertaking work to identify and develop non-legislative policy options for further reforms to the recall process.

This will involve significant collaboration with policy teams across the MoJ, operational partners in HMPPS and external stakeholders as well as providing clear advice to Ministers.

Key responsibilities will include:

· Policy development: Developing innovative approaches to complex policy challenges. You will draw on different sources of evidence and data to inform your work and demonstrate effective problem-solving approaches.

· Advice, briefing and correspondence: Ensuring Ministers, senior leaders, Parliamentarians and stakeholders are given clear, well-researched and timely advice on live issues and areas of concern. This work is likely to include oral and written briefings, parliamentary questions and correspondence and feeding a prison demand and release perspective into wider work across MoJ and other government departments.

· Project oversight – Scoping, planning and managing your work through project management techniques: managing risks, issues and dependencies and monitoring and progress. This can include reviews and research-led projects

· Stakeholder relations: Maintaining and owning close relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders within the MoJ/HMPPS, across government and within the third sector.

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