JOB SUMMARY

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Senior Global Health Intelligence Analyst to work in an analysis and assessment role within the All Hazards Intelligence (AHI) Global division. AHI Global expertly fuses all sources of qualitative and quantitative information to provide UK policy- and decision-makers with all-source health intelligence assessment of global health risks, their drivers and the health context in which they arise. As a Senior Global Health Analyst, you will provide insight and foresight to support policy- and decision-making at all levels across government, making impact every day.
AHI Global sits within the Analysis and Intelligence Assessment (AIA) Directorate and is part of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Group, within the UKHSA, who aim to prevent, prepare for and respond to infectious diseases, and environmental hazards, to keep all our communities safe. Our analysts support incident response and preparedness – with UKHSA as a category 1 responder – working on global health hazards from mpox to highly pathogenic avian influenza.

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

THIS ROLE IS BASED AT OUR CANARY WHARF LOCATION BUT WILL ALSO INVOLVE TRAVEL TO OTHER LONDON LOCATIONS (E.G. WHITEHALL).

You will:

• be part of a team of analysts focused on a broad spectrum of topics in global health security.
• lead innovative analysis, applying structured assessment techniques, to deliver assessment products that provide UK decision- and policymakers with insight and foresight of a broad range of global health security issues, and their implication to the UK.
• work closely with other analytical teams across AIA, UKHSA and other government partners and departments, building strong working links with colleagues internally and externally.
• maintain up-to-date knowledge of global health policies, frameworks, and developments.
• apply strong analytical skills, and will be adept at finding, analysing and interpreting vast amounts of complex, and often conflicting, information from all sources.
• clearly communicate and present key judgements, in writing and verbally, to customers at the most senior levels of government, articulating uncertainty in a way that aids comprehension, maximises impact, and draws out the “so-what?” of your analysis.
• successfully manage your time and the priorities of your team, working at pace to progress multiple competing tasks and manage expectations from customers and seniors.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

In AHI Global, we deliver expert evidence synthesis, analysis and assessment of medical, epidemiological, environmental, bio-scientific and other information related to human health from all sources – open, technical and closed. We employ critical thinking and structured analytical techniques, including futures projection, to draw out the ‘so-what’. We deliver actionable assessments that provide insight and foresight to policy and decision-makers in UKHSA, DHSC, and across UK Government, supporting them to understand and prepare for global health hazards that are a potential risk to the UK. We are comprised of two teams:
(i) The Global Emerging Hazards team, in which we monitor global health trends on emerging pathogens and other health hazards. We do this by understanding the historical context to better anticipate future risk, scenario generation to identify multiple plausible futures, and expert elicitation to crowdsource an assessment of the most likely trajectory of emerging health hazards.
(ii) The Global Health Systems Assessment team provides policy- and decision-makers with insight into the context in which global health hazards arise, including health, public health and biosurveillance systems, and foresight of the risk and implications for the UK from international crises and major events.
The post is within the Global Emerging Hazards team and offers superb development opportunities and the chance to gain exposure across a broad range of policy areas, achieving real-world impact with the most senior officials at the heart of decision making in government. The assessment that you will lead and deliver will aim to get to the bottom of issues, drawing on a range of health and non-health data and information from all sources.
You will become a Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) analyst, belonging to the UKHSA analytical community, and will work closely with UKHSA colleagues to ensure insight and foresight be shared across the Agency, and wider public health and emergency response communities. We draw on specialist and generalist talent across a range of disciplines, maximising our impact through collaboration. These include intelligence assessment, epidemiology, data science, statistical modelling and social research. We want to know what you can bring to the mission. In turn we will help you to broaden and deepen your expertise while in post, with a tailored learning and development offering within a supportive and positive working environment.