National Security Principal Analyst

Job Title –National Security Principal Analyst

Profession- Intelligence Assessment

Directorate – All Hazards Intelligence

Full Time equivalent - 37.5 hours

No of Roles – 1

Contract Type – Permanent, Loan or Secondment

Location – Canary Wharf, London E14 4PH

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) offers hybrid working – this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home.

The balance between home and workplace working will be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business needs and in line with departmental policy.

• Working Pattern – Full Time / Flexible Working/ Hybrid Working

Grade & Salary – Grade 7. Inner London - £55,799- £65,089 per annum.

New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band.

The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.

This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/.

Are you already a civil servant, or employed by a Civil Service Commission accredited public body? Please state home department on your application form.

Closing Date – 25/03/2024. 23:55pm. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered

Interview Date – W/C 15/04/2024. Please note, these dates are subject to change.

Are you looking to contribute to a vital mission to save lives and improve health outcomes for UK citizens?

We are looking for a Grade 7 Principal Analyst within the National Security Division of the All Hazards Intelligence Directorate (AHI) to coordinate assessments of hazards and threats to UK health security.

This high-profile role ensures Ministers, Chief Medical Officers (CMO) and senior decision makers are serviced with timely, informative and accurate strategic foresight and insight from all sources, including data and intelligence, to enable decision making on key health security issues. You will join a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and continual opportunities for improvement.

You will have particular responsibility for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) assessments. This post will require outstanding leadership to coordinate input into CBRN assessments. You will need to forge close working relationships with the National Security community , public health subject matter experts in UKHSA, and the wider health family. You will lead the creation of analysis and assessment ensuring the health security implications are clear.

AHI is part of the Data Analytics and Surveillance Group (DAS), within the UKHSA, whose mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. Our teams are responsible for reporting across a range of public health issues. There may be opportunities to get involved in work across other areas of UKHSA’s business.

Job Overview

This is an exciting time to join a growing capability within the National Security Division of the All Hazards Intelligence (AHI) Directorate in UKHSA.

You will bring your credibility, professional experience and subject matter expertise into a small but growing UKHSA all-source assessment cadre.

As a National Security Principal Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the development of your work programme, taking decisions on the direction and delivery of your work area, identifying opportunities and anticipating future requirements, and reconciling different priorities. You will have particular responsibility for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) assessment.
• Navigating the complex National Security and CBRN landscape and diverse stakeholders. You will build productive relationships, working closely with other teams in UKHSA, and developing links with wider government partners, ensuring outputs are aligned with UKHSA and government priorities.
• Influencing internal and external stakeholders and representing the organisation on major issues, conveying sometimes deeply complex information in an understandable and convincing way.
• Significant contribution to the development of the broader Directorate’s all-source assessment cadre, including ensuring work meets Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) standards.

Main Duties of the Job

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading a variety of thematic and risk assessment analytical work, particularly on National Security and CBRN threats, drawing out their associated public health implications to inform response and senior policy activity.
• Successfully managing your time, working at pace to progress multiple competing tasks to deliver high quality and timely products for customers and seniors.
• Supervising the capture, collation, analysis and assessment of data on a variety of public health issues, from a range of sources including UKHSA held datasets, NHS data, open-source, other government partners and international colleagues.
• Communicating and clearly presenting key insights, both written and verbal, up to the most senior levels.
• Supervising the development of and, where appropriate, delivery of briefings for the UK’s Chief Medical Officers, their Scientific Advisors, Ministers and other senior decision makers.
• Supporting the Division and Directorate on drafting responses to Parliamentary Questions, FOI requests, or inquiries as required, and the continued development of the Division and Directorate.

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality 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.

Essential Criteria:

• Professional experience (which could be from an all-source assessment, policy, diplomatic, technical, clinical, or professional academic background) of one or several of the following: health security, science and technology, biosecurity, biological warfare, chemical warfare, radiological or nuclear).

• Proven professional assessment and analytical skills (which could have been gained in an all-source assessment role, or policy, or professional academic role), ensuring analytical outputs are policy suitable and have clear ‘so what’ implications for decision-making. Comfortable dealing with quantitative and, particularly, qualitative assessment and uncertainty.

• Personal resilience and flexibility, adaptable to change, with demonstrable experience of working at pace to competing deadlines and priorities across multiple projects in a challenging and complex environment.

• Ability to develop strong, positive working relationships with stakeholders – across the Department, wider HMG and internationally – quickly and effectively to enable cross-team and cross-organisation working and coordination.

• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to communicate with and influence seniors and peers.

• Developed Vetting clearance

Desirable Criteria :

• Professional Intelligence Assessment skills and understanding of the Intelligence Community or broader National Security community (including policy)

• Experience producing PowerPoint presentations, knowledge of SharePoint, MS Teams and proficient in IT systems.

• Qualification or membership of professional analysis bodies.

Qualifications required:

Intelligence Assessment: Previous successful completion of the New Analyst Programme (NAP), or the Government Intelligence Assessment Training (GIAT), or the Defence Intelligence Assessment Course (DIAC), or the City and Guilds Level 3 in Intelligence Analysis, or equivalent professional experience.

A generic qualification in a field with substantial qualitative analysis and assessment.

Or a specialist qualification in subjects such as:

Operational Research: A degree at 2.1 (or above) or an MSc or equivalent experience, and be able to demonstrate relevant experience in your career in the relevant profession.

Social Research: A degree at 2.1 (or above) or MSc/MA in a relevant social science discipline or equivalent experience, and be able to demonstrate relevant experience in your career in the relevant profession.

Economist: A degree at 2.1 (or above) or an MSc in Economics and be able to demonstrate substantial current experience in your career as a professional economist.

Statistician: A degree at 2.1 (or above) or an MSc in a subject which also has substantial qualitative analysis content, or equivalent experience, and be able to demonstrate relevant experience in your career as a professional statistician.

Or equivalent professional experience.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job contact :

Name :
sophie rigney
Email :
sophie.rigney@reed.com

Recruitment team

Email :
sophie.rigney@reed.com