Senior Project Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - UK Health Security Agency

UK Health Security Agency

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £37,056 - £45,998- per annum
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Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Project Delivery
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Flexible working, Fulltime, Homeworking
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The Vaccine Taskforce became the UKHSA Covid Vaccine Unit (CVU) on 1 October, continuing to ensure the best possible vaccines are available for the UK population, whenever they are needed to fight what remains a fast evolving, deadly virus.

Vaccines remain the key to the UK living with COVID, delivered through the high quality and high impact outcomes of this unit.

The UK government has signed a 10-year-partnership with Moderna in a major boost for vaccines and research.

Moderna will invest in mRNA research and development (R&D) in the UK and build a state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing centre with the ability to produce up to 250 million vaccines a year.

Our approach is to 'deliver together' across the multi-disciplinary 'rainbow' team (project delivery, commercial, logistics modellers, scientists, clinical, communications) in an inclusive structure where every voice is heard and people really grow.

We also work closely with all our suppliers in this new, fast evolving market, academia (research is fundamental), and with colleagues right across HMG.

The UKHSA's 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 work to ensure that our people have the diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds needed to thrive, that our employees are representative of the communities we serve, and that they feel valued and enabled to play their part in delivering our work.

Job description:

We are looking for an experienced Project Delivery Professional with experience in:

Governance
Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the Governance cycle of the programme. Manage the functions of board meetings and other relevant forums on behalf of the project. Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
Stakeholder Management building and nurturing professional relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including academics and industry experts. You'll liaise directly with these partners, bringing together information and knowledge as required.

Risk and Issues

Responsible for identifying, monitoring, and proactively managing supply risks and issues. Taking tangible action to ensure strategic and operational risks and issues are identified, prioritised, assessed, and appropriate mitigating actions developed, implemented and monitored throughout the life of the operational.

Planning and Scheduling

Creating and managing appropriate systems to enable effective planning of a project or programme.

Vaccine Awareness

Good background knowledge on vaccine development and vaccine deployment. Able to quickly digest complex scientific and technical information and ask the right questions.
Experience of Building Capability
Using your project delivery experience and knowledge to provide delivery guidance and support to colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

Accountable for the operations function of the R&D Steering Board within the Moderna/UK Strategic Partnership. Managing the quarterly meeting organisation, monitoring delivery against relevant milestones and maintaining the board's objectives against their Terms of Reference and Ways of Working against cost, quality, time and scope.
The role will work closely with the G6 and G7 (deputising if required) to ensure continuous and consistent management of delivery and outputs of board meetings, in alignment with the required programme outcomes.
Supporting the full spectrum of the CVU internal and external governance. Act as a daily initial point of contract for project governance and reporting, change control and audit requirements. Ensure the 'right' information is shared in the most effective and efficient way across the directorate, and when needed into wider HMG engagements or externally.
Accountable to Project Manager (PM)/Lead for maintaining high quality and detailed project records and meeting logs are kept up to date for relationship planning, discussion, delivery agreement and performance improvement commitments. Ensuring highpace delivery as an effective and efficient customer
Cultivate and integrate relationships for whole range of supporting functions across the CVU and e