Analytics Team Lead Remote
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Job title – Analytics Team Lead
Profession- Analytical government professions or equivalent
Directorate – All Hazards Intelligence
Full Time equivalent - 37.5 hours
No of Roles – 1
Contract Type – Permanent
Location – Remote Working or London Based
UKHSA offers hybrid working or home working for its employees – this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our UKHSA offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home. The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business need and in line with departmental policy. Some business travel will be required to other UKHSA offices. Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available
Working Pattern – Full Time /Hybrid Working/ Flexible Working/ Job Share/ Part Time
Grade & Salary – Grade 6. National banding - £62,489 - £71,893 Inner London -.£66,291 - £75,411 Outer London - £64,390- £73,652
The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.
This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/.
Closing Date – 06/06/2023. 23:55pm. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered
Interview Date – W.C 26/06/2023 Please note, these dates are subject to change.
Overview of Job
Are you looking to contribute to a vital mission to save lives and improve health outcomes for UK citizens?
We are looking for a Grade 6 Team Leader within the All Hazards Intelligence Directorate (AHI). Team leaders will oversee and coordinate analysis to inform assessment of hazards and threats to UK health security and public health. AHI is part of the Data Analytics and Surveillance Group (DAS), within the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), whose mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards.
The role is Analytical Team Leader for National Health Hazards. This post will require outstanding leadership to manage a team of highly-motivated and skilled health analysts, data scientists, and epidemiologists to deliver maximum impact and value.
This high-profile role ensures Ministers, CMOs and senior decision makers are serviced with timely, informative and accurate strategic insights from data to enable decision making for COVID and wider key health issues.
You will join a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and continual opportunities for improvement. Our teams are responsible for reporting across a range of public health issues which requires leading the creation of analysis from the team and also coordination and synthesis of analytical outputs from across a wide range of stakeholders across UKHSA and the wider public health family.
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Main Duties of the Job
Key responsibilities include
- Provide leadership for a team of team of analysts and data scientists to develop and deliver a range of analysis and data products on health security and public health threats in the UK.
- Supervise a commissioning and synthesis of a variety of analytical work from other teams to support thematic and risk assessments of key public health issues to inform response and policy activity.
- Communicate and clearly present key insights, up to the most senior levels, from a variety of analytical sources
- Successfully manage your time and the priorities of your team, working at pace to progress multiple competing tasks to deliver high quality and timely products for customers and seniors.
- Supervise the capture, collation, and analysis of data on a variety of public health issues, from a range of sources including UKHSA held datasets, NHS data, open-source, bilaterally shared or cross Whitehall partners.
- Supervising the development of, and where appropriate delivering, briefings for the UK’s Chief Medical Officers, their Scientific Advisers, Ministers and other senior decision makers.
- Supporting the Division and Directorate on responses to Parliamentary Questions and FOI requests on risk assessment and border measures, in addition to supporting Covid Inquiry as required.
- Developing the analytical capability across the Division and wider Directorate.
- Building and sustaining key partnerships, within UKHSA, nationally and internationally.
- Supporting wider corporate transformation as a member of the senior leadership team.
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.
Person specification
Essential criteria:
- Experience of leading strategic decision support, ideally in a health or national security environment.
- Proven assessment and analytical skills and ensuring analytical outputs (including complex data and analysis) are policy suitable and have clear ‘so what’ implications for decision-making.
- Experienced manager and leader of a teams, demonstrating competencies expected at Grade 6 level. This includes inspiring and motivating staff, promoting diversity, building capability, innovation and managing conflicting pressures.
- Experience of working at pace to deadlines across multiple projects, being flexible and adaptable to change.
- Ability to develop strong positive working relationships with stakeholders quickly to enable effective working across teams and organisations to coordinate activity.
- Ability to communicate and influence seniors and peers.
- Strong communication skills (both written and oral), personal resilience and the ability to deliver at pace on competing priorities in a challenging and complex environment
Desirable skills / experience / knowledge:
- Experience of project management – able to manage and oversee large work programmes – ensuring projects deliver to time and specification.
- Experience producing PowerPoint presentations, knowledge of SharePoint, MS Teams and proficient in IT systems.
- Qualification or membership of Professional analysis bodies.
- DV clearance or willingness to undergo the vetting process to obtain DV clearance
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
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%
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Selection process details
You will be required to complete an application form. This will be assessed and sifted in line with the essential criteria.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience
Stage 1: Application & Sift
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Statement of Suitability in no more than 1000 words providing examples of how you meet the essential criteria. It should also detail what you and your experience can bring to the role. We suggest using the STAR (situation, task, action, result) method to demonstrate real-life examples for the specified essential criteria. Please note, only information provided within the stated word count will be considered.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview
Stage 2: Panel Interview
The interview will consist of a presentation, the topic will be given prior to the interview you will then be tested on the following behaviours:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Leadership
- Communicating & Influencing
- Working Together
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.
DBS - People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.
This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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.
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Government baseline personnel security standard
It’s 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
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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