Deputy Director, Data Strategy and CDO Group Performance

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for taking forward work across UKHSA to continuously improve our approach to surveillance, bringing Chief Medical Advisor (CMA), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) teams together. This includes continuing to drive new surveillance capabilities and relationships, identifying opportunities for HM Government to continue to build on its experience of large-scale population studies and use of wastewater surveillance from the pandemic, and new collaborations with industry and the third sector to improve our understanding of health security threats and their impact on the population.

People and resources are liable to change, as CDO continues to transform and evolve so the post holder will be responsible for helping CDO Leadership Team manage that change whilst ensuring the consistent delivery of corporate functions across CDO.

Key responsibilities will include:

Coordinating CDO Group Strategy, ensuring coherence with UKHSA Strategy and outcomes Own UKHSAs agency-wide Data Strategy and implementation, including associated Data Maturity Assessments. Lead Data Culture transformation for UKHSA, supporting the professionalisation and maturity of the organisations attitude and approach to data. Coordinate for CDO all data and data security policies, ensuring they are agreed, accessible, simple and up to date. Coordinate the CDO-led Surveillance Oversight Group, leading a small team focused on UKHSA Surveillance Transformation - bringing together UKHSA clinical, scientific and data teams on continuously improving our approach to Public Health Surveillance Accountable for UKHSAs large-scale population studies and Wastewater policy, ensuring they are an integrated offer within HM Governments Pandemic Preparedness playbook. Responsible for the management of CDOs £125.4m budget, including strategy workforce, risks, staff engagement Act as a principal point of contact to DHSC, NHSE and DSIT on CDDO issues Enable CDO Group by delivering new partnerships with international partners, government organisations, academia and industry

This role will influence the following key stakeholders:

Internal

CDO function Director peers Director Generals and Directors across UKHSA Data science and analytics community across UKHSA Human Resources and Finance in relation to Workforce Planning and Development, ways of working and culture, Spending review and business planning UKHSA commercial and legal teams, in delivery of UKHSAs Agency Agreement (with devolved administrations) and wider policy and finance activity UKHSA Strategy team

External

Relevant stakeholders within Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, DHSC, Health and National Security communities, wider government departments, non-departmental bodies and potential funding organisations Data Architects, Data Analysts, SCS peers and Analytics and Government Digital and Data (GDD) leadership across Government Devolved Administrations, departments and organisations Academia Private sector leaders International agencies such as WHO and governments health and data organisations Relevant stakeholders within the UK and global partners Relevant stakeholders within identified external data providers and users (public and private sector)

For further details, please see Candidate Pack.

External

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

Stage 1: Application & Sift

This vacancy is using Success Profiles

At sift stage you will be assessed against the Essential criteria listed in the job advert.

You will be required to complete an:

Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application) (up to 1000 number of words) word Statement of SuitabilityThis should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role.

You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible)

Your statement of suitability must be no more than 1000 words.

Failure to submit a full application will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.

If we receive a large number of applications we will undertake an initial longlisting sift against the lead criteria of translating strategic direction into an operational plan that delivers data and analytical outcomes that enable UKHSA teams.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to attend an in-person panel interview (week commencing 5th May 2025) in order to have a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification (remote attendance may be considered in exceptional circumstances). During the interview we will assess you against Strengths and the following Behaviours:

Behaviours:

Seeing the Big Picture Making Effective Decisions Leading and Communicating Delivering at Pace

As part of the interview, candidates will be required to deliver a 5-minute presentation, based on Experience, the topic of which will be confirmed prior to the interview.

Full details of the assessment process will be made available to shortlisted candidates. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. You will be expected to travel to London once a month. 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)

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).

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Developed Vetting.

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 10 years as the role requires Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.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.

Person Specification

Application Form & Supporting Statement

Essential

• Application Form & Supporting Statement

Behaviours

Essential

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

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

National

London

E14 4PU

Employer's website

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