Strategy Advisor - London, United Kingdom - UK Health Security Agency

UK Health Security Agency

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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- £42,716 - £48,068
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Senior Executive Officer
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Permanent
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Administration / Corporate Support
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Strategy
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Flexible working, Fulltime, Homeworking
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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is currently recruiting a Strategy Advisor for the UKHSA Strategy team, which sits in the Strategy directorate.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) ensures the nation can respond quickly and at scale to deal with a range of health threats, including a future pandemic.

UKHSA is responsible for planning, preventing and responding to external health threats, and providing intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, and on the global stage.

The impact we make is profound.

We work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, and that staff members feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

UKHSA's Strategy Directorate is an inclusive, high-performing team with an exciting and challenging remit including leading the organisation's strategic and business planning, delivery of priority outcomes and decision making, and building key relationships both within Government and external stakeholders at home and overseas.

We play a critical coordination and integration role to make sure UKHSA is greater than the sum of its parts.

This role is based in the UKHSA Strategy team which focusses on setting the organisation's direction, including developing UKHSA's overall strategy, as well as supporting the development of supporting strategies (for example UKHSA's Science and Health Equality strategies) and plans to deliver individual UKHSA priorities.

As a Strategy Advisor, you will play an essential role in helping establish UKHSA as a leading agency in domestic and global health protection.

You will be working with a highly motivated and passionate group of people in an exciting and fast paced environment with the opportunity to influence government policy and delivery.

You will be responsible for developing and securing agreement to responses to strategic problems facing UKHSA, plans to address the organisation's top priorities and advancing the key capabilities need to deliver health security.

This includes realising the new possibilities created by bringing together complementary skills, capabilities and responsibilities from multiple organisations into UKHSA.

Ability to see the bigger picture and draw together varied information into a coherent whole
Great stakeholder management skills, especially with senior colleagues. The ability to build productive working relationships quickly and to engender confidence with colleagues and stakeholders.
Critical strategic thinking, including ability to identify and assess options, and make wellargued recommendations.
A strong communicator, able to communicate messages clearly to a range of audiences at all levels both verbally and in writing.
Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise work
Experience of supporting your team to deliver priorities in a fast paced, constantly changing work environment to achieve successful outcomes.
Skilled in the Microsoft office suite packages (specifically Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).

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About Us

At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) our mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards.

We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

Our mission is challenging, innovative and in the spotlight.

We will work to ensure our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds we need to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve and feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

Creating our working culture is an ongoing process which we are developing by listening and learning together, hearing and acting upon diverse voices and opinions to develop a common sense of identity and effective ways of working.

Having recently achieved the publication of UKHSA's Strategic plan, the team is now prioritising:

Working with the Senior Executive Leads for UKHSA's six priorities to agree the specific outcomes we will aim to achieve over the three years of the UKHSA's Strategic plan, metrics we will use to measure success and effective plans for delivery.
Ongoing development and delivery of a support offer for teams creating internal strategies for key aspec