Strategy Adviser

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

- 354318**Salary**:

- £38,724 - £48,068**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is currently recruiting a Strategy Advisor for the UKHSA Strategy team, which sits in the Strategy directorate.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) ensures the nation can respond quickly and at scale to deal with a range of health threats, including a future pandemic. UKHSA is responsible for planning, preventing and responding to external health threats, and providing intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, and on the global stage.

The UKHSA mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight. The impact we make is profound. We work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, and that staff members feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

UKHSA’s Strategy Directorate is an inclusive, high-performing team with an exciting and challenging remit including leading the organisation’s strategic and business planning, delivery of priority outcomes and decision making, and building key relationships both within Government and external stakeholders at home and overseas. We play a critical coordination and integration role to make sure UKHSA is greater than the sum of its parts.

This role is based in the UKHSA Strategy team which focuses on setting the organisation’s direction, including developing UKHSA’s overall strategy, as well as supporting the development of supporting strategies (for example UKHSA’s Science and Health Equity strategies) and the plans needed to deliver individual UKHSA priorities.

**Location**

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) operates a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at our London office. Specialist or regional roles will be based at the appropriate UKHSA site. For certain roles, some additional flexibility may be possible, which will be agreed upon with the hiring manager based on individual requirements and business needs.
- *Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*_

**Job description**:
As a Strategy Advisor, you will play an essential role in helping establish UKHSA as a leading agency in domestic and global health protection. You will be working with a highly motivated and passionate group of people in an exciting and fast paced environment with the opportunity to influence government policy and delivery. You will be responsible for developing and securing agreement to responses to strategic problems facing UKHSA, plans to address the organisation’s top priorities and advancing the key capabilities needed to deliver health security. This includes realising the new possibilities created by bringing together complementary skills, capabilities and responsibilities from multiple organisations into UKHSA.

**Main duties of the job***

With UKHSA having published its 3-year Strategic plan, the team is now prioritising:

- Ongoing development and delivery of a support offer for teams creating internal strategies for key aspects of UKHSA’s activities. This involves collaborating with teams across UKHSA to ensure that the skills and structures needed for the development of strategies are in place, as well as ensuring alignment with the UKHSA Strategic Plan.
- Working with the Senior Responsible Owners for UKHSA’s six strategic priorities to agree the specific outcomes we will aim to achieve over the three years of the UKHSA’s Strategic plan, metrics we will use to measure success and effective plans for delivery.

The role will be focussed on delivery of one or more of these work areas. The team’s work will evolve over time as particular projects conclude, but will continue to be based around the core objectives of setting the organisation’s direction and longer term planning to deliver UKHSA priorities.

Your main responsibilities are likely to include:

- Working collaboratively with colleagues and senior leaders to help develop and advance the delivery of strategic plans, shaping proposals and coordinating contributions.
- Building, maintaining, and improving systems to support a controlled and comprehensive approach to strategy development across UKHSA.
- Supporting colleagues and senior leaders to maintain clarity on strategy and associated deliv