Community Engagement Project Manager

Job overview

The role sits within the Health Equity and Inclusion Health division and will support the UKHSA respond to the differences experienced between communities and population groups with regards to the risk of exposure to an external health hazard, susceptibility to poor outcomes, and the ability of an individual or community to recover.

The team are responsible for:

• Delivery and oversight of the UKHSA Delivering Health Equity for Health Security Strategy
• Developing approaches to health protection surveillance, research, evidence and intelligence for high-risk groups and settings
• Providing specialist health protection advice and insight relating to the health protection of high-risk groups and settings
• Supporting the organisation to take a people and place approach by identifying and testing new approaches at national and regional level.  Working across the organisation to develop and implement an engagement framework to support cocreation and partnership between community groups, people with lived experience and UKHSA for high risk and inclusion health groups

Main duties of the job

As a Project Manager you will support the day to day running of a project to develop and implement an engagement framework to support cocreation and partnership between community groups, people with lived experience and UKHSA.

You will be responsible for supporting your team to oversee the delivery of the 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Manage the day to day running of the project, leading it to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Build project plans and apply appropriate delivery methodology, setting project controls and track and report against milestones.
• Co-ordinate the development of the business case.
• Monitor and track project spend, ensuring it is within budget.
• Plan and manage resources to deliver the project.
• Identify benefits and ensure these are understood, measured, tracked and owned; monitoring the longer-term delivery of benefits against the business case.
• Develop effective relationships with key stakeholders.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues, developing mitigating actions and escalation process.
• Provide project reports and support effective governance and decision making.
• Support project assurance, audit and gateway reviews.
• Set up effective change management processes, including documenting agreed changes to the project deliverables.
• Promote individual and team performance, seek appropriate guidance and coaching from the project community.
• An active member of the UKHSA Project Delivery Profession Community.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a large or medium complexity project team or work stream lead for a small low complex project with working knowledge of project delivery methodologies and frameworks.
• 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.
• Experience of engaging with and/or managing work commissioned to the voluntary and community sector
• Awareness of business case development, commercial and procurement processes, and asset allocation.
• 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.
• Strong capability in using Microsoft Office applications, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Please note that for roles where specific qualifications or registrations are required, successful applicants will be asked to provide appropriate evidence. Employment cannot commence until satisfactory documentation has been received and verified.

Selection process

This vacancy will be assessed using a competency-based framework which will assess your qualifications, knowledge and experience and / or skills and abilities outlined in the essential criteria.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 9 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of:

• an application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)
• a 1250 word supporting statement.

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.    You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V –please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible). Please do not email us your CV.

Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than 1250 words. We will not consider any words over 1250  words.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets some essential criteria
• Meets no essential criteria

Only those meeting all essential criteria will be taken through to shortlisting.    Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Experience of working in a large or medium complexity project team or work stream lead for a small low complex project with working knowledge of project delivery methodologies and frameworks.

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

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview

You will be invited to a remote interview.

Knowledge, experience, skills and abilities will be tested at interview.

Interviews will be held week commencing xxxxx. Please note, these dates are subject to change.

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Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any our Core HQ in Canary Wharf.

We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using 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) on-site.

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Eligibility criteria

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

Security clearance level requirement

Part 1

Successful candidates must pass an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Security (DBS) check before they can be appointed.

Part 2

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Salary information

If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government  department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.