An exciting opportunity awaits at the UK Health Security Agency for the position of Project Manager. Professionals with experience in the health sector and a proven track record of success are strongly encouraged to apply. This role also offers visa sponsorship for eligible candidates, making it an excellent opportunity to advance your career in a dynamic and impactful organization.
About the Agency
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) plays a vital role in preventing, preparing for, and responding to infectious diseases and environmental hazards, ensuring the safety of communities, saving lives, and protecting livelihoods. With a strong focus on scientific and operational leadership, UKHSA collaborates with local, national, and international partners to safeguard public health and enhance the nation’s health security capabilities.
As an employer of choice, UKHSA promotes equality of opportunity and actively encourages applications from diverse groups, particularly those underrepresented in the workforce. The organization’s ethos emphasizes inclusion, fostering a culture that celebrates differences and drives innovative solutions. By removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity, UKHSA strives to create a supportive and inclusive environment for all staff and stakeholders.
Position: Project Manager
Salary: £40,661 to £50,472 a year
Job Type: Full Time
Location: London
About the Role
This role is to provide project management support to the Health Equity for Health Security Strategy. The postholder will be responsible for working with action owners in delivering the work of the strategy and ensuring that the strategic actions and milestones are reported on a timely basis to the UKHSA Health Equity Board. You will be joining at an exciting time, where work is starting to develop the next iteration of the strategy.
They will be required to use their existing strong project management skills to coordinate work going on across the agency and manage priority workstreams to deliver the Health Equity for Health Security Strategy. The outputs of the project will contribute to UKHSA’s strategic goal to ‘achieve more equitable health security outcomes.
This will require expertise in project management skills and an ability to work in a complex and changing environment. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that robust monitoring and governance processes enable efficient and effective delivery against the strategy.
Main Duties
- To Take overall responsibility for elements of the management of the Health Equity for Health Security Strategy using established stakeholder and project management techniques including knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation tools.
- Report as necessary to all manner of stakeholders using written highlight reports, verbal updates, and email.
- Present, using MS PowerPoint, to project and programme boards on the progress of the project or to sell complex ideas to varied stakeholder groups.
- Manage the production of all required products defined by the project plan within agreed time periods. This will include production or modification of process maps, scope documentation, and the management of cross-organisational task and finish groups
- Direct and motivate teams to ensure they deliver as planned.
- Produce project documentation using methodology consistent with other strategies within the agency
- Manage risks, opportunities, and issues
- Take responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiate corrective action where necessary
- Be responsible for change control and configuration management in a manner consistent with other strategies within the agency
- Serve on UKHSA working groups or committees as required.
Qualifications
Knowledge and Experience (Essential)
- Proven record of project management of strategic projects including monitoring and evaluation of cross-organisational or complex programmes
- Experience of presenting complex ideas to large audiences
- Experience of working in the health sector
- Substantial experience of report writing and process mapping
Skills and Capabilities (Essential)
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, ability to liaise effectively and work with people across disciplines and professions
- Able to work well as a team member and able to work under own initiative to tight deadlines
Equality and Diversity (Essential)
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by the directorate.The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the organisation.
Professional development: You should pursue a programme of continuous professional development in accordance with any relevant professional registration or statutory requirements, while maintaining appropriate awareness of service provider requirements.
Selection Process:
Please be aware that we will assess on 6 essential criteria stated on the advert rather than the full list on the job description document.
This vacancy will be assessed using a competency-based framework which will assess your knowledge, experience, skills & abilities.
Stage 1: Application & Sift
You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the below listed 6 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of
- Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
- A 1000 word Statement of Suitability.
This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.
Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview.
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 (competency based)
You will be invited to a single remote interview.
Knowledge, experience, skills & abilities will be tested at interview.
A presentation will also form part of the interview. The topic will be a 5 min presentation on how you would approach turning a health equity strategy into operational delivery across an organisation.
Interviews will be held week commencing TBC
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Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
Location
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 of UKHSA’s core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London) .
Security Clearance Level Requirement
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
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Application Deadline
January 17, 2025