UK Health Security Agency
Community Engagement Project Manager
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Job Summary
The role sits within the Health Equity and Inclusion Health division and will support the UKHSA respond to the differences experienced between communities and population groups with regards to the risk of exposure to an external health hazard, susceptibility to poor outcomes, and the ability of an individual or community to recover.
The Team Are Responsible For:
- Delivery and oversight of the UKHSA Delivering Health Equity for Health Security Strategy
- Developing approaches to health protection surveillance, research, evidence and intelligence for high-risk groups and settings
- Providing specialist health protection advice and insight relating to the health protection of high-risk groups and settings
- Supporting the organisation to take a people and place approach by identifying and testing new approaches at national and regional level. Working across the organisation to develop and implement an engagement framework to support cocreation and partnership between community groups, people with lived experience and UKHSA for high risk and inclusion health groups
Working for your organisation
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Please visit our careers site for more information https://gov.uk/ukhsa/careers
Job Description
As a Project Manager you will support the day to day running of a project to develop and implement an engagement framework to support cocreation and partnership between community groups, people with lived experience and UKHSA.
You will be responsible for supporting your team to oversee the delivery of the project, ensuring that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. You will have a key role in project governance and will work with stakeholders to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefit realisation.
Your Roles And Responsibilities Will Include:
- Manage the day to day running of the project, leading it to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
- Build project plans and apply appropriate delivery methodology, setting project controls and track and report against milestones.
- Co-ordinate the development of the business case.
- Monitor and track project spend, ensuring it is within budget.
- Plan and manage resources to deliver the project.
- Identify benefits and ensure these are understood, measured, tracked and owned; monitoring the longer-term delivery of benefits against the business case.
- Develop effective relationships with key stakeholders.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues, developing mitigating actions and escalation process.
- Provide project reports and support effective governance and decision making.
- Support project assurance, audit and gateway reviews.
- Set up effective change management processes, including documenting agreed changes to the project deliverables.
- Promote individual and team performance, seek appropriate guidance and coaching from the project community.
- An active member of the UKHSA Project Delivery Profession Community.
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Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Experience of working in a large or medium complexity project team or work stream lead for a small low complex project with working knowledge of project delivery methodologies and frameworks.
- Working knowledge of planning, scheduling, budget management, resource management, risk and issue management and quality management in a project or programme environment. or appropriate skills that have been gathered in a non-project environment.
- Working knowledge of governance, assurance, requirements management and change control in a project or programme environment or appropriate skills that have been gathered in a non-project environment.
- Experience of engaging with and/or managing work commissioned to the voluntary and community sector
- Awareness of business case development, commercial and procurement processes, and asset allocation.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with multiple tasks.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, collaborating across boundaries with the ability to influence and challenge effectively.
- Strong capability in using Microsoft Office applications, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Please note that for roles where specific qualifications or registrations are required, successful applicants will be asked to provide appropriate evidence. Employment cannot commence until satisfactory documentation has been received and verified.
Salary information
Alongside your salary of £41,983, UK Health Security Agency contributes £12,162 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Selection process details
This vacancy will be assessed using a competency-based framework which will assess your qualifications, knowledge and experience and / or skills and abilities outlined in the essential criteria.
Stage 1: Application & Sift
You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 9 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of:
an application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application) a 1250 word supporting statement.
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.
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). Please do not email us your CV.
Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than 1250 words. We will not consider any words over 1250 words.
Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:
- Meets all essential criteria
- Meets some essential criteria
- Meets no essential criteria
Only those meeting all essential criteria will be taken through to shortlisting.
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Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:
- Experience of working in a large or medium complexity project team or work stream lead for a small low complex project with working knowledge of project delivery methodologies and frameworks.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment.
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
Stage 2: Interview
You will be invited to a remote interview.
Knowledge, experience, skills and abilities will be tested at interview.
Interview dates are to be confirmed.
Location
This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any our Core HQ in Canary Wharf.
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) on-site.
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).
Eligibility criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
Security clearance level requirement
Part 1
Successful candidates must pass an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Security (DBS) check before they can be appointed.
Part 2
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.
Future location
UKHSA is investing in a new state-of-the-art National Biosecurity Centre in Harlow, Essex, which will eventually bring together teams currently based at Canary Wharf, Colindale and Porton Down. For more details, please see: Huge biosecurity centre investment to boost pandemic protection - GOV.UK.
The new facilities will start becoming operational in the mid-2030s, with full completion by 2038. Staff will move in phases as facilities become available. If you're appointed to a role currently based at Canary Wharf, Colindale or Porton Down, please note that we'll continue investing in these sites for the next decade. As we get closer to the transition, we'll provide full information about relocation support available to staff.
Reasonable Adjustments
The Civil Service is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, we will consider any reasonable adjustments that could help you. An adjustment is a change to the recruitment process or an adjustment at work. This is separate to the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need an adjustment to be made at any point during the recruitment process you should contact the recruitment team in confidence as soon as possible to discuss your needs.
You can find out more information about reasonable adjustments across the Civil Service here: https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments/
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