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UK Health Security Agency

People Analytics and Insight Lead

The closing date is 27 August 2025

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Job summary

The role is focussed on leading the team responsible for bringing together existing people datasets and investigating workforce issues to inform decision-making and acts as a centre of expertise within Finance Performance Risk and Assurance (FPRA) on the use and presentation of people and performance-related data.

The People Analytics and Insight Lead will be responsible for providing technical and professional leadership for the function. The post holder will have considerable autonomy to deliver actionable insights from the organisation's existing people data sources, using curiosity, creativity and experience to provide observations which are accurate, relevant and clearly communicated. These should highlight areas of risk and opportunity as FPRA helps the organisation to continue to deliver key strategic priorities.

Main duties of the job

As a People Analytics & Insight Lead your main responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the people analytics function by embedding an approach to people analytics within the new directorate, agreeing ways of working, and agreeing the analytics offer to FPRA and People teams and the wider organisation.
  • Understanding the organisation's current challenges and applying analytical insight - such as statistical analysis and data modelling techniques - to identify issues, recommend courses of action, and monitor progress against those actions.
  • Overseeing a core offer of products to key stakeholders by supporting and advising the wider people analytics team to ensure successful delivery.
  • Generating, extracting and organising people-related data from a range of sources
  • Developing engaging and accessible approaches to data visualisation to maximise the impact and understanding of people-related issues across the organisation.
  • Supporting the implementation and rollout of the organisation's new HR system, ensuring the improved reporting functionality is reflected in the people analytics offer to the organisation.
  • Building people analytics capability by identifying and supporting relevant development for team members to build increasing expertise and flexibility and creating a targeted "intelligent customer" development offer for FPRA and People Group stakeholders.

For a full list of the main duties and responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

About us

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

Details

Date posted

13 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£54,416 to £68,344 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

919-CG-305872-EXT

Job locations

Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential criteria:

  • Significant experience in leading and developing a motivated, engaged, and high performing team or function
  • Experience in providing leadership in analytical investigations, data modelling, product and dashboard development
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and people building skills
  • Experienced in the planning and delivery of processes and programmes that improve service delivery
  • Excellent communication skills with the credibility and interpersonal skills to influence and persuade senior stakeholders
  • Ability to communicate clearly through data visualisation techniques

Selection Process Details:

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

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 6 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

  • Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
  • 1000 wordsupporting statement.

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 supporting statement will be marked together.

Longlisting:

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

  • Meets all essential criteria
  • Meets someessential criteria
  • Meets no essentialcriteria

Those that 'meet all essential criteria' and those that 'meetsome essential criteria' will proceed to Shortlisting.

Shortlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on the following essential criteria:

  • Significant experience in leading and developing a motivated, engaged, and high performing team or function.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment.

Please do not exceed 1000words. 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 and technical skills will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

  • Seeing the Bigger Picture (Lead behaviour)
  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Managing a Quality Service

You will also be asked to prepare and present a 510 minute presentation. The subject of this will be:

  • How would you lead and leverage the people analytics and insights function, in an organisation that is undergoing significant change?

Your presentation should last no longer than 5 minutes and will comprise the first part of the interview.

Interviews will be held week commencing 8th September. 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.

Eligibility Criteria

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

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. 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).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

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 Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential criteria:

  • Significant experience in leading and developing a motivated, engaged, and high performing team or function
  • Experience in providing leadership in analytical investigations, data modelling, product and dashboard development
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and people building skills
  • Experienced in the planning and delivery of processes and programmes that improve service delivery
  • Excellent communication skills with the credibility and interpersonal skills to influence and persuade senior stakeholders
  • Ability to communicate clearly through data visualisation techniques

Selection Process Details:

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

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 6 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

  • Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
  • 1000 wordsupporting statement.

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 supporting statement will be marked together.

Longlisting:

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

  • Meets all essential criteria
  • Meets someessential criteria
  • Meets no essentialcriteria

Those that 'meet all essential criteria' and those that 'meetsome essential criteria' will proceed to Shortlisting.

Shortlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on the following essential criteria:

  • Significant experience in leading and developing a motivated, engaged, and high performing team or function.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment.

Please do not exceed 1000words. 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 and technical skills will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

  • Seeing the Bigger Picture (Lead behaviour)
  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Managing a Quality Service

You will also be asked to prepare and present a 510 minute presentation. The subject of this will be:

  • How would you lead and leverage the people analytics and insights function, in an organisation that is undergoing significant change?

Your presentation should last no longer than 5 minutes and will comprise the first part of the interview.

Interviews will be held week commencing 8th September. 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.

Eligibility Criteria

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

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. 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).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

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 Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Person Specification

Application form and Supporting Statement

Essential

  • Application form and Supporting Statement

Behaviours

Essential

  • Seeing the Bigger Picture
  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Managing a Quality Service

Technical

Essential

  • Presentation
Person Specification

Application form and Supporting Statement

Essential

  • Application form and Supporting Statement

Behaviours

Essential

  • Seeing the Bigger Picture
  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Managing a Quality Service

Technical

Essential

  • Presentation

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).

Additional information

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

Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Resourcing Support

Carmelita Goodwin

Carmelita.Goodwin@ukhsa.gov.uk

Details

Date posted

13 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£54,416 to £68,344 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

919-CG-305872-EXT

Job locations

Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Supporting documents

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