General Information

Salary The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location Working Pattern Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working Vacancy Approach External Location National Region National Closing Date 16-Apr-2025 Post Type Permanent Civil Service Grade SEO Number of jobs available 2 Job ID 4365

Descriptions & requirements

Job description

 

Data Ethicist 

Location: National* 

 

Grade:SEO 

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

Closing date:16th April 2025 

Interviews: from 16th May 2025 (please note that this may be subject to change) 

 

Salary: The national salary is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 –£52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. 

 

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 

 

The Role 

 

We’re recruiting for two Data Ethicistshere at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Improvement Team within the Data Directorate. 

 

We align our Data Ethics roles to the Government Digital and Data Framework, adapted to the appropriate role level. 

 

We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to 

make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; 

putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.We launched our data strategy for MoJ and are working on improvements across data governance, architecture, literacy, ethics, culture, dissemination and linking.  

 

You can read more about the Data Strategy in this blog post. 

 

Data ethics is a cross-cutting discipline that assesses the wider societal impact of technology, producing recommendations for technologists and data professionals. It involves thinking about fai...