Senior Information Manager

Job summary

Role title: Senior Information Manager

Location: Manchester or London

The Role

Reporting to the Associate Director of Information Services the Senior Information Manager will manage the team in delivering a comprehensive information service to the Institute, leading the planning and management of operational input, and providing expertise in the appropriate use of information across a portfolio of programmes including NICE's guidance and advice, and corporate library services.

What you will bring to NICE

To be considered for this role, we are looking for:

• A postgraduate qualification in library or information science, or equivalent experience working in a health library or information service
• Extensive expertise and skills in literature searching relating to public health / social care, evidence-based health care or clinical effectiveness
• In-depth understanding of the principles of evidence-based health care in relation to clinical, public health or social care
• Substantial experience in a qualified (professional) information role within a medical / health library / public health / social care setting
• Management experience or demonstrable aspiration to move into a management role in an information environment

Main duties of the job

The post holder should be able to demonstrate the following:

Applicants should be able to demonstrate the essential criteria from the attached person specification within their applications to be considered for this role.

The Department

The SEA directorate comprises five teams, Science Policy & Research, Data Analytics, Office for Digital Health, Evidence Services and Information Services. It sits at the heart of NICE and is aligned with the guidance producing directorates to put evidence at the core of what NICE does. You will be joining a team of over 30 information specialists who provide professional expertise to enable access to high quality information for the development of NICE guidance and advice. You will be responsible for managing information expertise for named programmes and for line managing some of the team within a matrix management structure.

For an informal discussion please contact Marion Spring, Associate Director Information Services, 0161 870 3087, marion.spring@nice.org.uk

Closing date: 18/04/2022Interview date: 27/04/2022

About us

• Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
• We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly and inclusive environment.
• We have an academic culture committed to producing high quality work and we take collective responsibility.

Our main purpose is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things!