Head of Parliamentary Accountability

3 weeks ago


Remote, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 267665**Salary**:

- £62,489 - £75,411**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Remote working (anywhere in the UK)About the job

**Job summary**:
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is responsible for planning, preventing, and responding to external health threats and providing intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, as well as on the global stage.

UKHSA will ensure the nation can respond quickly and at greater scale to deal with pandemics and future threats.

UKHSA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

The Strategy, Policy and Programmes (SPP) Directorate sets the strategic direction for UKHSA, supports the organisation to deliver the business plan and evaluates performance of delivery.

This G6 leadership role has responsibility for the Parliamentary team within the SPP Directorate and is vital for ensuring the UKHSA meets its obligations when communicating with parliamentarians.

**Job description**:
We are looking for an experienced G6 with a strong track record in parliamentary accountability. This is an excellent opportunity to lead a high performing specialist parliamentary accountability team and make a real impact. The parliamentary accountability team provides centralised services directly with parliamentarians and other stakeholders.

A background in leading on parliamentary accountability in the context of health and working with a range of stakeholders is essential for this role.

Main duties may include:

- overseeing delivery of a high-quality parliamentary accountability service for UKHSA and contribute to the overall development and effectiveness of UKHSA
- maintaining effective and efficient relationships internally and externally
- leading a team to use high quality, robust analysis and collaboration to solve complex delivery issues
- providing and encouraging creative and objective insight to challenge established thinking about what can be done
- building UKHSA’s capability in engagement, raise its reputation, and help deliver our priority outcomes to improve public health
- working flexibly to support the Strategy Directorate to deliver its priorities and to respond to new and emerging issues

**Working for your organisation**:
With certain aspects of the role comes a delegated responsibility to approve UKHSA’s responses to its stakeholders; the postholder must recognise situations where UKHSA’s Senior Leadership team should sign off responses and must also ensure that all relevant colleagues in UKHSA are aware of any commissions that could gain wider coverage.

The postholder will deputise for the SCS as required to ensure that UKHSA’s parliamentary service is maintained to a high level. The postholder will be responsible for the line-management and development of G7 staff.

A particular challenge arises from the wide range of policy areas in which UKHSA is involved. As the role involves changing priorities, you will need to demonstrate the ability to lead a team to be flexible, adaptable, and resilient through uncertainty.

**Person specification**:
Essential Criteria
- Experience of heading up a team of parliamentary briefing professionals to deliver a high-quality parliamentary service and meeting agreed KPIs
- Experience of building effective networks across HMG in the context of parliamentary accountability
- Excellent staff management skills, including the provision of appropriate direction and coaching to achieve effective functioning of the team
- Strong risk/issue management experience specifically in the context of parliamentary accountability
- Experience of overseeing delivery of agreed outcomes at very high pace for Ministers and senior colleagues
- Promoting a culture of continuous improvement to processes, ways of working and remit to ensure effective and efficient delivery of parliamentary accountability
- Overseeing the delivery of a UKHSA -wide capability building programme
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate messages clearly to a range of audiences at all levels, particularly senior leaders and parliamentarians
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with proven experience of influencing priorities and ways of working
- Experience of workforce plan



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