Job responsibilities
- Provide the senior leadership input from across the CSO Group into the Science Hub Programme. The post-holder will work with the CSO, Directors and Deputy Directors (and their teams) in co-ordinating the contribution from the Group to the planning of the Harlow buildings across the requirements for both building and operating systems and processes. The post-holder will be the first point of contact for substantive issues with the Science Hub Programme.
- Lead and deliver the Transformation & Modernisation Programme which articulates a clear and compelling vision of change through evidence-based business cases with sound scientific rationale, financial analysis and resource implications. This includes working with the Science Strategy & Evidence Directorate on prioritising and delivering strategic change for the group.
- Lead and deliver the Group Capital Programme, working with group-wide capital leads and finance managers to ensure the groups capital budget is invested optimally and that expenditure is accurately tracked and phased. Ensure the total portfolio of capital projects is continually monitored and new projects brought on stream in time to ensure the best use of a limited budget is achieved.
- Implement a group escalations and situation management function and process to ensure the group effectively co-ordinates, triages and responds to operational situations and incidents.
Please see Candidate Pack for full overview of duties.
Essential criteria
- Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement capability to drive work across a broad portfolio.
- Experience of working at a senior level in a complex environment, providing leadership across major programmes and multiple large scale transformation delivery projects.
- Experience of leading operational and performance teams. Able to demonstrate capability to develop and deliver performance management frameworks and metrics.
- Experience of translating strategy into delivery through plans, programmes, people and culture, ensuring innovation within a high-performance workforce.
- Proven track record of managing complex group budgets, financial reviews and strategically aligning financial resources with people resources, laboratory equipment, ICT and other assets to achieve desired outcomes, consistently delivering value for money.
- Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to build highly effective relationships and partnerships within a complex stakeholder environment to deliver outcomes.
- Ability to deliver major and complex change at pace, through obstacles, effectively managing competing priorities.
- Highly developed financial acumen to ensure delivery of savings and generation of income where applicable.
- Ability to develop and encourage innovative ideas to drive improvement.
- Resilient, tenacious and outcome focused.
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Knowledge and understanding of the public sector equality duty (the Equality Act 2010)
- Programme or Project Management Qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of in microbiology and laboratory services design and delivery.
- Knowledge, experience and awareness of the laboratory landscape, particularly within the Public Health Genomics environment.
- Experience of overseeing complex commercial relationships, ideally in a health or public sector context.
- Experience of implementing or working with innovative commissioning frameworks and approaches.
Qualifications/ experience:
Essential:
Evidence of continuing Professional development.
Stage 1: Application & Sift
Success profiles behaviours
You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on essential criteria, and this will be in the form of -
an Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application) a 1000 word Statement of Suitability.
This should outline how 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.
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.
Longlisting: A long list stage may be introduced if we receive a large number of very credible applications.
Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on Experience of leading and delivering large scale transformational programmes and the ability to convey a compelling and engaging vision of change.
Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment
Please do not exceed 1000 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)
You will be invited to a remote interview.
Behaviours will be tested at interview.
The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:
Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Leadership Working Together
Interviews will be held week commencing TBC Please note, these dates are subject to change.
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.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Security Clearance.
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 5 years as the role requires Security Check (SC).
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.
This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs or Scientific Campuses. This role will require regulartravel to London 10SC, and laboratory sitesacross the UK. 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) or at one of our scientific campus sites (Colindale, Porton and Chilton).
Relocation expenses are not available.
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
