About the job

Job summary

We are looking for a Lead Technology Business Partner with the right experience to develop trusted and influential relationships with senior stakeholders across UKHSA. This is a leadership role within the Technology Business Partnering Team, which is part of UKHSA Technology.

The Technology Group’s vision is to protect the nation's health through technology; identifying, designing, developing, deploying, securing, and running reliable, credible and trusted IT services. We do this by delivering services which meet and maintain the Government Digital Service (GDS) Digital by Default Service Standard (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/digital-by-default). And Technology Business Partnering is at the heart of that as we proactively partner across UKHSA and beyond, to influence, design and deliver digital and technology products and services that underpin Agency objectives, and provide tangible, valued business and citizen health outcomes.

Job description

As a Lead Technology Business Partner, you will:

• Be accountable for developing trusted senior relationships across UKHSA and promoting Technology, working and communicating effectively with colleagues across the Agency.
• Influence business demand through strategic relationships and as a member of senior management meetings, including financial and programme boards, and deputising for the Deputy Director when required.
• Be responsible for leading, supporting and developing a team of Technology Business Partners that understand UKHSA’s Groups’ needs and to develop influential relationships, shaping and influencing digital and technology activities, capabilities and outcomes.
• Set the strategic direction for the Business Partner function, defining outcome-based objectives.
• Understand business perspective of digital and technology services, both at strategic and tactical levels, to ensure users’ needs are met.
• Take ownership for ensuring that potential business value from Technology is captured, optimised and communicated.
• Stimulate, surface, understand, anticipate, influence and shape digital and technology demand for services across UKHSA.
• Shape the Technology Business Partnering portfolio of services and product offerings.
• Explore future business strategies, business requirements and objectives.
• Be a committed and credible member of the Technology Business Partnering leadership team, ensuring UKHSA’s perspectives are shared and understood to inform strategy and delivery.
• Support peers in the leadership team as needed, ensuring that the shared goals and objectives of the team are met.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Technology Business Partnering. You will be an experienced Digital & Technology professional with demonstrable evidence of leading a digital team and with business partnering expertise, both in a high-profile organisation.
• Relationship building and advocacy. Demonstrable experience of relationship building with senior stakeholders and colleagues, with adeptness at advocating with business customers and digital technology teams to create shared understanding, shape solutions and resolve competing demands.
• Making and guiding decisions: Experience shaping Digital and Technology agenda of an organisation, aligning business demand with in-house capability and or third-party delivery.
• Communication:  A creative thinker who can assess complex technical issues and then inform and influence senior stakeholders in a non- technical manner.
• Strategy: Experience creating technology roadmaps and plans showing commonality of demand across the enterprise, and highlighting potential gaps and risks.
• Stakeholder management: Experience of briefing, challenging, influencing and engaging with senior officials, up to and including Director General, Permanent Secretary level and Ministers (or equivalent), providing advice in a format that allows risk-based decisions to be made.
• Leadership and management: You will be adept at working collaboratively as part of a senior leadership team to set and deliver strategy, culture and behaviours that foster high performance and rapid delivery of outcomes. This will include proven experience of leading teams and developing staff to meet and exceed their potential.
• A recognised Business Relationship Management qualification (BRMP or equivalent) or willingness to gain the qualification.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £65,302, UK Health Security Agency contributes £17,631 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

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

Stage 1: Application & Sift

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

• CV/ Application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)
  
  
• 1000 word Statement of Suitability

This should outline how you consider your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The CV and Statement of Suitability will be marked separately, and you must pass both to move forward to interview.

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

You will be invited to a remote interview.   

All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed on Behaviour, Technical skill and Experience through Success Profiles.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Seeing the Big picture
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working together

Interviews will be held week commencing the 10th June. Please note, this date is subject to change. 

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Eligibility Criteria 

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

Location information 

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.

Disability Confident scheme 

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.  

Reserve List clause  

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.

Starting Salary 

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.

For further details please refer to the Information Sheet- Starting Salaries & Benefits attachment

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

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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.