Senior Programme Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Being responsible for coordinating delivery specific PHM CNL (Clinical Network Laboratories) workstreams through supporting leads across the organisation, facilitating cross-government engagement where needed and ensuring reporting to the CNL Senior Leadership team.
• Being responsible for supporting project management to PHM CNL team, working closely with colleagues across UKHSA to agree and update key milestones for delivery.
• Provide secretariat support to senior meetings, including the CNL SLT (Senior Leadership Team) Oversight Board. This will require preparing agendas; commissioning and collating papers; taking and distributing accurate minutes; and following up on minutes.
• The production of strategic reports on key deliverables and activities for UKHSA internal engagement.
• Liaising with colleagues to provide accurate and timely responses to commission Requests Extensive event planning for Seminars, Workshops and high-profile visits to the CNL sites relating to the delivery PHM CNL initiatives and strategy.
• Support the delivery of business functions of the CNL teams.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience of building and managing relationships with a variety of stakeholders across the system with different reporting relationships to achieve positive outcomes and results.
• Knowledge and experience of using monitoring and evaluation principles in project delivery.
• Experience of undertaking evidence-based research and analysis and producing reports
• Experience of project and policy development and delivery including project management tools and techniques
• Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence for a range of audiences including at senior level
• Experience of working in a fast paced and changing environment
• Experience of organising and managing meetings, including writing minutes, taking actions and following up where required

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Experience, Technical skills and Strengths.

Stage 1 - Application & Sift:

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the 7 essential criteria listed, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application

• 1200-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 form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essentialcriteria

• Meets some essential criteria

• Meets no essential criteria

Piles Meets all and Meets some essential criteriawill be moved through to the shortlisting stage.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Experience of building and managing relationships with a variety of stakeholders across the system with different reporting relationships to achieve positive outcomes and results.

Please do not exceed 1200 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number. If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to an interview. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview.

Behaviours, Technical, Experience and Strengths will be tested at interview.

The Behaviour's tested during the interview stage will be:

• Making Effective Decisions (lead)
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

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Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at one of our Scientific Campuses or labs. 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 scientific campus sites or labs (Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Chilton, Colindale, Porton or Manchester)

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centretransport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

If based at one of our scientific campuses or labs, you will be required to have a minimum of 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.

Eligibility Criteria

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

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Person Specification

Application form and Statement of Suitability

Essential

• Application form and Statement of Suitability

Behaviours

Essential

• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Any UKHSA scientific campus or laboratory - Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Chilton, Colindale, Manchester or Porton

61 Colindale Ave,

London

NW9 5EQ

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)