About the job

Job summary

This role is to provide project management support to the Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division. The Division is responsible for:

• the national surveillance of most vaccine preventable infections
• providing technical support and clinical expertise to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and to the NHS in planning and delivering the national immunisation programmes
• secretariat to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
• engagement with the Global Polio Eradication Programme by providing secretariat for the independent national polio committee, which report to the WHO.

These programmes provide around 22 million vaccines per year, across the whole life course, and delivered in a range of NHS settings. The programmes are supported by a large portfolio of professional and public publication materials and by web-based content on UKHSA and on the NHS websites. Annual tracking of parental attitudes to vaccination is used to inform the development of public facing publications.

The department also provides a secretariat to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation which recommends changes to the national immunisation programme and publishes “Immunisation Against Infectious Disease” – the single authoritative source of immunisation advice for health professionals and the UKHSA site that consistently receives the highest number of web-hits.

Job description

As a Project Manager you will lead on the day to day running of the project, which will typically be low to moderate in complexity. This initiative is essential to the UK’s role in the global eradication of polio, and you may be involved in supporting other work within the portfolio. You will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of the PIM survey project, ensuring that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. You will have a key role in project governance and will work with stakeholders to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefit realisation.

Location:

This role is based in the UKHSA Colindale office, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ.

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. * 

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

It is important through your application and Statement of Suitability of 500 words that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the essential criteria (for full details of all essential criteria please refer to the attached job description, you must review this to produce your statement of suitability):

Essential

• Experience of working in a medium complexity project team or work stream lead for a small low complex project with working knowledge of project delivery methodologies and frameworks preferably in a scientific or healthcare setting.
• Working knowledge of planning, scheduling, budget management, resource management, risk and issue management and quality management in a project or programme environment. or appropriate skills that have been gathered in a non-project environment.
• Working knowledge of governance, assurance, requirements management and change control in a project or programme environment or appropriate skills that have been gathered in a non-project environment.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with multiple tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, collaborating across boundaries with the ability to influence and challenge effectively.
• Ability to liaise with senior scientists and medical professionals external to UKHSA with credibility.
• Strong capability in using Microsoft Office applications, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Professional experience in a similar organisation, healthcare organisation or academic institution
• Knowledge of online survey tools
• Knowledge and experience of Project Management methodology supported by professional qualifications such as:
• APM Project Management Qualification
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Agile Project Management Practitioner
• PMI Project Management Professional

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%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

Selection process details

STAGE 1 - APPLICATION & SIFT: 

You will be required to complete an application form. This will be assessed in line with the full list of essential criteria as detailed in the attached job description – please do provide evidence of how you meet this. 

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

STAGE 2 – INTERVIEW 

This post will involve an interview by video. 

As part of the process, candidates will be invited to interview which will involve an in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification. 

The Success Profiles framework will be used to assess and recruit the most suitable candidate.  The following behaviours will be used at the interview: 

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

Expected Timeline:

Advert close: 23:55hrs on 28th January 2024 – unfortunately, late applications will not be considered. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Shortlist: w/c 5th February 2024

Interviews: 14th February TBC

Please note these dates could be subject to change. 

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.