JOB SUMMARY

As a Data Manager, you will be part of a dynamic team responsible for delivering the development, management, and coordination of enhanced surveillance systems of vaccine preventable diseases.
The post holder will be required to maintain and develop enhanced surveillance systems for vaccine coverage, working closely with a wide variety of professionals from both within and outside UKHSA to ensure high quality data. The post holder will oversee the co-ordination of requests for data associated with the Immunisation Information System (IIS) vaccination data, the production of regular and ad hoc outputs from these systems for inclusion in routine national and international reports and information requests from government.

The role requires:

• Liaising with stakeholders within the organisation and outside to support effective decision making through data reporting, quality assurance and standards processes.
• Developing working relationships with other health professional groups both within UKHSA and the NHS at various levels to manage and source data and information, in the context of a rapidly changing data environment.

The post holder will have:

• strong data management skills, ideally with experience in immunisation data.
• excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively both autonomously and within a team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Applying analytical methods to potentially highly complex vaccine coverage data from a variety of sources as requested
• Planning, organising and delivering on a range of data requests requiring analytic input, including negotiating and agreeing the most appropriate data output, initiating and planning workloads and setting delivery timescales for the team
• Perform hypothesis testing and analysis to understand the effectiveness of analyses and document requirements turning these into usable data and visualisation products for publication and analysis; Communicate effectively specialist information with colleagues
• Perform all work in cognisance of data protection requirements and the need to maintain confidentiality and security of surveillance information
• Working collaboratively as part of the analytical capability across the product life cycle. Assisting colleagues in the delivery of the analytical work programme and also with colleagues in other analytical teams in UKHSA as required. You can work with other developers and analysts to integrate and separate data feeds to map, produce, transform and test new and existing scalable data products that meet user needs. You understand how to expose data from systems (for example, through APIs), link data from multiple systems and deliver streaming services. You know how to work with other developers and analysts to understand and make use of different types of data models. You understand and can make use of different tools for automation, and you can compare different data models
• Using a variety of methods including written briefings and oral presentations to communicate the implications of public health analytical outputs for action to improve local population health to stakeholders from a range of backgrounds

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)
• 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

DESIRABLE ROLE CRITERIA:

• Significant experience of working with multiple sets of data and information systems in health or related organisations

The role requires:

• Liaising with stakeholders within the organisation and outside to support effective decision making through data reporting, quality assurance and standards processes.
• Developing working relationships with other health professional groups both within UKHSA and the NHS at various levels to manage and source data and information, in the context of a rapidly changing data environment