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Job summary

Job title – Geospatial Analyst

Profession-  Geography

Directorate – Analytics & Data Science

Full Time equivalent - 37.5 hours

No of Roles – 1

Contract Type – Fixed Term Contract Until March 2025

Location – National

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) operates 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 locations (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).  Specialist or regional roles will be based at the appropriate UKHSA site. For certain roles, some additional flexibility may be possible, which will be agreed upon with the hiring manager based on individual requirements and business needs.

*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 / Part Time / Flexible Working / Hybrid Working / Home working

Grade & Salary – Grade HEO. National banding - £30,473 - £37,215 per annum. Inner London - £34,463 - £41,478 per annum. Outer London - £32,469 - £39,532 per annum.

New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band.

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 – 17/01/2024. 23:55pm. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered

Interview Date – W/C 05/02/2024 and 22/01/2024 Please note, these dates are subject to change.

Introduction

UKHSA is responsible for protecting every member of every community from the impact of infectious diseases and other health threats. We provide intellectual, scientific, and operational leadership at national and local level, as well as on the global stage, to make the nation's health secure.

UKHSA is building on the legacy of the COVID-19 response to ensure the public health system is resilient and scalable to future threats to population health.

Job Overview

The UKHSA Geospatial Team has scaled, following its support of the COVID-19 response, to ensure that geographic data, tools and analysis have maximum impact all public health hazards. In 2022, the Team worked with OS to define a strategic approach, identifying building geospatial infrastructure, standardising geospatial products and developing our research and analytics capability, as three strategic objectives for team.

We are now scaling the team to support achieving this and the Geospatial Analyst role will support exciting products to further enhance the reputation of the team. The role will be varied and include supporting, the management of critical geospatial data and services, standardised geospatial product development, geospatial analysis, research and insight.

The team is extremely collaborative, giving the successful candidate the opportunity to work on a range of innovate geospatial projects, such as situational awareness mapping, earth observation public health use cases and enterprise analytic capability development. The team also supports Global Operations missions to IHR supported countries, offering the successful candidate opportunities for international travel.    

Job description

We are looking for a candidate to:

• Support the technical delivery of high-profile geospatial projects for UKHSA, by working flexibly and collaboratively across the organisation. This is a technical role, where excellent people and communication skills will be essential for success

• We are looking for a candidate to support the function of the team in one or more of the following areas:

• Opportunity to strengthen the teams support of International Health Regulation work force development, with opportunity of international travel.
• Successfully manage your time, working collaboratively and at pace to progress multiple competing tasks
• Excellent verbal communication and written skills, supporting knowledge sharing and technical documentation
• Work collaboratively using a task-oriented approach to maximise the potential of geospatial data, services and analytics for public health

Person specification

Essential skills:

• Experience of working with large geospatial datasets and GIS to draw sound conclusions relevant for policy, and expanding on the ‘so what’ implications for decision-making

 

• Experience of supporting geospatial project delivery at pace, in one or more of the following areas:
• Geospatial data and platform engineering
• Geospatial product delivery
• Geospatial data science
  
  
• Experience of working collaboratively to deliver impactful geospatial outcomes
• Technical experience of one or more of the following platforms/environments: Esri, QGIS, R/Python, RShiny, GitHub/Lab, MS SQL Server/other RDBM

 

Desirable Criteria  

 

• Skilled in using enterprise geodatabases
• Experienced in delivering geospatial training

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £30,473, UK Health Security Agency contributes £8,227 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

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 & 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 750 words providing examples of how you meet the essential criteria. It should also detail what you and your experience can bring to the role. Please note, only information provided within the stated word count will be considered.

This part of the selection process should outline how you consider your skills, experience and achievements, and provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria outlined.

You will also be asked to provide information within the ‘Employer/ Activity history’ section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history. This will be used in sifting process and will be scored.

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

 

Stage 2: Panel Interview

All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will be invited to a remote interview via Microsoft Teams. You will be expected to prepare a 10 minute presentation for the interview

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others

 

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.

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

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

 

Complaint process:

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: Complaints1@ukhsa.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website. 

 

 

Contact Details – Sophie.Rigney@reed.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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.