Deputy Director

Job summary

The leader of the National Hazards Assessment and Analysis division in the Analysis and Intelligence Assessment Directorate is a varied and challenging senior leadership role. As one of the key members of the Directorate's senior leadership team, you will be at the heart of the UKHSA's mission to prepare for, prevent and respond to health threats, save lives and protect livelihoods.

The National Hazards Assessment and Analysis division's mandate is to deliver analysis and assessment of existing threats to UK public health and provide information to aid strategic decision making and policy at a national level.

The Deputy Director oversees a broad programme of work including:

Delivering analysis to support situational awareness, understand inequalities, and enhance strategic decision making at a national level across multiple hazards. Delivering assessment of strategically important national hazards for senior decision makers, synthesising intelligence from modelling, data science and clinical insights from AHI, UKHSA and across the health family. Delivering products across multiple hazards by developing our relationships with subject matter experts, continuously developing our knowledge and data expertise, and collaborating with modellers and data scientists, to ultimately transform the agencies capacity to deliver robust and consistent assessment of hazards at a national level.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to collaborate across the UKHSA to commission and build on the strengths of all relevant teams, as well as building strong relationships with counterparts in DHSC, NHS, the Cabinet Office and other government departments.

Lead the national hazard teams and strategic oversight of the capability to provide analysis and assessment of existing threats to UK public health

Provide timely and impactful assessment and forecasting to aid strategic decision making and policy at a national level and responsively during public health incidents.

Deliver analysis to support situational awareness and understanding of inequalities across multiple hazards, synthesising intelligence from modelling, data science, clinical SME with all source data to generate insight for senior customers.

Lead customer and partner engagement across UKHSA, government and with customers in the health family to identify policy requirements; prioritise assessment and analysis outputs, tasking modelling as required.

Providing strategic oversight and quality assurance of all-source health intelligence assessment products.

Build and develop AHI's health assessment capability, use of data, subject matter expertise and deliver the agency's capacity to deliver robust and consistent assessment of hazards at a national and regional level.

About us

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

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.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential Criteria

Experienced in working with complex and fast-paced data and information feeds within a relevant field (such as a response role in epidemiology or public health, emergency planning and operations, biosecurity or national security)

Experience in commissioning and conducting all-source assessment of quantitative and qualitative information and expertise in quality assurance of intelligence assessment

Proven experience working in a policy environment, providing timely analysis for decision-makers, with ability to command the confidence of Senior Stakeholders

Strong collaborative skills and customer focus with the ability to build networks and achieve consensus across stakeholders, including forging relationships with Board and senior level stakeholders ( Ministers)

An in-depth knowledge of the use and application of analytical capabilities for strategic decision making

Empowering, inclusive and inspiring leadership of high performing teams, with the ability to lead dispersed multifunctional teams through change and organisational transformation in a fast-paced environment.

Knowledge of PHIA standards and a track record of leading high performance teams in that community

The successful candidate will need to hold developed vetting (DV)

Desirable Criteria:

Understanding of health, the health system, health security issues and structures and/or experience working in or with health partners

Good working knowledge of epidemiology, genomics and public health practice

Experience leading delivery of all source intelligence assessment

Experience working with or alongside the UK intelligence community

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on essential criteria, and this will be in the form of:

an Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application) a 1000 word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how you consider your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist on the lead behaviour:

Leadership

Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment.

Please do not exceed 1000 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

You will be invited to a face to face interview.Behaviours will be tested at interview and this will include a 5-10 minute presentation, the topic of which will be confirmed prior to the interview. Visual aids will be allowed.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

Leadership

Working Together

Making Effective Decisions

Communicating and Influencing

Managing a Quality Service

Interviews will be held week commencing 13 January 2024. Please note, these dates are subject to change.

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Hybrid Options

This role is being offered as hybrid working. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using 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 one ofUKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London) or at one of our scientific campus sites (Colindale, Porton and Chilton).

If based at one of our scientific locations, you will be required to have a Counter Terrorism Check security vetting check as a minimum. For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years as the role requires Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) clearance. In exceptional circumstances UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice. Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

If successful you must hold, or be willing to obtain, security clearance to DV level. More information about the vetting process can be found here.

If based at one of our scientific locations you will be required to have a Counter Terrorism Check security vetting check as a minimum. For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You shouldnormally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years as the role requiresCounter Terrorism Check (CTC) clearance. In exceptional circumstances UK residency lesthan the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting andapplicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for furtheradvice.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Application & Statement of suitability

Behaviours

Essential

Leadership Working Together Making Effective Decisions Communication and Influencing Managing a Quality Service

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