National Security Principal Analyst

Job description

Job responsibilities

Skills & experience Key responsibilities include: Leading a variety of thematic and risk assessment analytical work, particularly on National Security and CBRN threats, drawing out their associated public health implications to inform response and senior policy activity. Successfully managing your time, working at pace to progress multiple competing tasks to deliver high quality and timely products for customers and seniors. Supervising the capture, collation, analysis and assessment of data on a variety of public health issues, from a range of sources including UKHSA held datasets, NHS data, open-source, other government partners and international colleagues. Communicating and clearly presenting key insights, both written and verbal, up to the most senior levels. Supervising the development of and, where appropriate, delivery of briefings for the UKs Chief Medical Officers, their Scientific Advisors, Ministers and other senior decision makers. Supporting the Division and Directorate on drafting responses to Parliamentary Questions, FOI requests, or inquiries as required, and the continued development of the Division and Directorate. We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality 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. Other Essential Criteria: Professional experience (which could be from an all-source assessment, policy, diplomatic, technical, clinical, or professional academic background) of one or several of the following: health security, science and technology, biosecurity, biological warfare, chemical warfare, radiological or nuclear). Proven professional assessment and analytical skills (which could have been gained in an all-source assessment role, or policy, or professional academic role), ensuring analytical outputs are policy suitable and have clear so what implications for decision-making. Comfortable dealing with quantitative and, particularly, qualitative assessment and uncertainty. Personal resilience and flexibility, adaptable to change, with demonstrable experience of working at pace to competing deadlines and priorities across multiple projects in a challenging and complex environment. Ability to develop strong, positive working relationships with stakeholders across the Department, wider HMG and internationally quickly and effectively to enable cross-team and cross-organisation working and coordination. Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to communicate with and influence seniors and peers. Developed Vetting clearance Desirable Criteria : Professional Intelligence Assessment skills and understanding of the Intelligence Community or broader National Security community (including policy) Experience producing PowerPoint presentations, knowledge of SharePoint, MS Teams and proficient in IT systems. Qualification or membership of professional analysis bodies. Compliance Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window). See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Government baseline personnel security standard Its important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following: life sentences arson sexual offences hate and terror offences Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role Selection Process Selection Process Stage 1: Application & Sift This vacancy is using Success Profiles and we will assess your behaviours and technical experience. At the sift stage you will be assessed against the essential criteria. You will be required to provide a statement of suitability of at most 1000 words. The system may allow you to submit more than 1000 words but please do not exceed 1000 words as we will not consider words over this limit. Your statement should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role. You should make particular reference to how you align to the main duties and essential criteria sections. If you are successful at the sift stage, you will progress to an interview. Stage 2: Panel Interview During the interview we will assess you against the civil service behaviours through the Success Profiles, and the technical skills in the Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) development framework. When assessing strengths, we want to find out whether you and the job role are a good fit. We will look at what you enjoy doing and what you do well and often. By ensuring that the role is the right fit for you, you are more likely to enjoy it and perform well. We will assess the following behaviours: Delivering at Pace Leadership Seeing the Big Picture Making Effective Decisions To assess your technical skills, you will be asked to deliver a 5 minute presentation. The subject of this will be sent to you prior to interview. We will ask additional technical questions based on the PHIA development framework. You can read more about this framework on the Gov.uk website Benefits Reserve List: Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available. If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available. Benefits 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 average employer contribution of 27% Range of health and wellbeing support Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at Childcare Choices | 30 Hours Free Childcare, Tax-Free Childcare and More | Help with Costs | GOV.UK

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Essential Criteria:
• Professional experience (which could be from an all-source assessment, policy, diplomatic, technical, clinical, or professional academic background) of one or several of the following: health security, science and technology, biosecurity, biological warfare, chemical warfare, radiological or nuclear).
• Proven professional assessment and analytical skills (which could have been gained in an all-source assessment role, or policy, or professional academic role), ensuring analytical outputs are policy suitable and have clear so what implications for decision-making. Comfortable dealing with quantitative and, particularly, qualitative assessment and uncertainty.
• Personal resilience and flexibility, adaptable to change, with demonstrable experience of working at pace to competing deadlines and priorities across multiple projects in a challenging and complex environment.
• Ability to develop strong, positive working relationships with stakeholders across the Department, wider HMG and internationally quickly and effectively to enable cross-team and cross-organisation working and coordination.
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to communicate with and influence seniors and peers.
• Developed Vetting clearance
• Desirable Criteria :
• Professional Intelligence Assessment skills and understanding of the Intelligence Community or broader National Security community (including policy)
• Experience producing PowerPoint presentations, knowledge of SharePoint, MS Teams and proficient in IT systems.
• Qualification or membership of professional analysis bodies.

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

Canary Wharf

London

E14 4PU

Employer's website

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