Job responsibilities
Job title : Project
Manager
Employer : Human
Tissue Authority
Directorate : Regulation Directorate
Accountable to : Director of Regulation
Contract : Fixed Term Contract for up to 18 months
Salary banding : £50,000
- £55,000 pro-rata (depending upon experience)
Location : 2 Redman Place,
Stratford, London, E20 1JQ *(Extensive flexible working / or remote working contract
available).
Closing Date : 25 May 2022
Introduction
The Human Tissue Authority’s (HTA’s) primary goal is to protect public and professional confidence in the safe and ethical use of human tissue.
The HTA is the national independent regulator for organisations that remove, store and use tissue for research, medical treatment, post-mortem examination, teaching and display in public. We also give approval for organ and bone marrow donations from living people. With the interests of the public and those we regulate at the centre of our work, we aim to maintain confidence by ensuring that human tissue is used safely and ethically, with proper consent.
Established under the Human Tissue Act 2004, we are an Executive Non- Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care. The Authority’s Chair and Board are appointed by the Secretary of State for Health. The Chair and half of the Board are lay, with the remainder being professionals drawn from some of the groups who are affected by the legislation. The Authority is supported by an Executive team of 50 staff.
HTA core values
The HTA’s values are our shared beliefs about behaviours that are key to how we deliver against our objectives. Our values help us achieve our vision and strategy, shape the way we deliver our regulatory functions and are integral to the way we interact with each other, professional stakeholders and the public.
Our values:
· Professionalism – the high standards we apply in the conduct of our individual and collective responsibilities.
· Respect – a proper regard for the abilities and perspectives of others.
· Expertise – the skills, knowledge and experience we apply for the benefit of our stakeholders and each other.
· Agility – rapid and positive response to changes in the internal and external environment without losing momentum.
Job purpose
The main purpose
for this role will be to project manage two projects, one of which is
in-flight, the other will need scoping and initiating. The Project Manager will
also be expected to provide more general project management advice and support
for operational projects run and managed within the Regulation Directorate.
The two key
projects that will form the majority of the activity in this role are as
follows:
Activities
relating to the Independent Inquiry into the issues raised by the David Fuller
case
The HTA has
already established a project with a number of workstreams to manage its
response to criminal activities in a mortuary setting. These include managing the
HTA’s input into the Independent Inquiry led by Sir Jonathan Michael, which is
expected to report over two phases and to run until 2023/24, reviewing the
HTA’s licensing Standards and guidance, and working with other stakeholders
across the system. The project is expected to evolve in phases over the next 18
months.
Review of Inspection
Inspection is a
core regulatory function of the HTA. More recently, the HTA has developed
Virtual Regulatory Assessments (VRA) enabling part or all of an inspection to
be carried out remotely. In the context of plans to increase the number of
inspections during 2022/23, and conscious of the evolving nature of regulation,
the HTA is keen to explore alternative approaches, including by commissioning an
independent review.
Timing and
balance of work:
This is
expected to be a 12-18-month appointment.
The jobholder
will be expected to use their project management skills and experience to work
without daily direction to ensure that these projects are appropriately
managed.
The relative
balance between the two pieces of work is difficult to predict and is likely to
vary over the time of this appointment. We expect the Independent
Inquiry-related work to take the bulk of the effort, with some periods of intense
activity. The Review of Inspection Project will also need to be scoped and
defined over the next few months in order to ensure that this review can be undertaken,
and recommendations considered within the 2022/23 business year.
Key tasks and responsibilities
a) Develop and maintain suitable project
plans, ensuring workstream tasks are clearly identified and tracked and
resource requirements and usage effectively monitored
b) Ensure effective management of risks,
assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) and that the RAID log is maintained
and regularly updated
c)
Organising
and facilitating Working Group meetings, ensuring minutes are accurately recorded
and tracking actions
d) Coordinating activity from across the
organisation
e) Acting as a single point of contact for
the projects
f)
Co-ordinate
internal communications
g) Work with Heads of Function and other
colleagues to co-ordinate resources
h) Ensure effective and accurate project
monitoring and reporting, with effective change control and escalation of risks
and issues as required
i)
Effective
document control
To be successful in
this role you will share a passion for what we do and how we do our work. You
will support our corporate vision and mission and display and own behaviours
consistent with our corporate values.
You will need to be able to
demonstratable resilience and flexibility of approach to manage uncertainty and
ambiguity whilst remaining focussed on outcomes .
Interdependences
In addition to managing the two projects
highlighted, the role holder will have responsibility to work alongside the
Heads of Function to drive delivery.
This role holder will also have a responsibility
to highlight to the SRO those challenges that present a risk to project delivery
with proposed mitigation. This will involve developing close and effective working
relationships across the organisation.
External
contacts
Licensed sectors, transplant community,
professional organisations, patient organisations, the general public, media,
Department of Health and Social Care, Devolved Administrations, and other health
regulators and key stakeholders, including the Independent Inquiry as referenced
earlier.
Internal
contacts
Director of Regulation, Head of
Regulation (Post Mortem and Public Display), other Heads of Regulation and
Heads of Function, HTA Senior Management Team and Chief Executive, HTA Chair
and Board Members, and colleagues from across the organisation.
