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Global Health Programme Officer

Job details
Posting date:	03 June 2024
Salary:	£32,188 per year
Additional salary information:	National =£32188, London = £36244
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	16 June 2024
Location:	London
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	353393/2

Summary

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

You will work in the Global and Public Health Group, which plays a crucial role managing the response to international health-related incidents like COVID-19 or Ebola. The Global and Public Health group also leads on global health strategies, advocacy and international negotiations. Staff work in a variety of roles, such as implementing the Trade and Cooperation agreement following EU Exit and developing the policy on vaccines deployment and therapeutics. Our vision is to keep people’s health safe at home and overseas by building strong relationships with our national and international partners.

The International Directorate sits within the Global and Public Health Group and works to strengthen global health systems and health partnerships to improve global health outcomes for the benefit of the UK and others, because no one is safe until everyone is safe. The directorate delivers this objective through several teams, all of which are supportive, friendly and committed to personal development and wellbeing.

Our roles are available in the Global Health Security (GHS) programme, a targeted programme to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect and respond to global health threats by working in partnership with low- and middle-income countries and the global health system. It is funded through the Government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget as part of UK Aid. The purpose of the GHS portfolio is to combat the world’s most serious infectious diseases and public health threats, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR), in order to support delivery of the globally agreed Sustainable Development Goals. One role supports the UK Vaccine Network Project, which works to accelerate development of vaccines against diseases of epidemic potential in low- and middle-income countries. The second role supports the GHS Programme Management Office, working across the GHS portfolio of projects as well as with our sister Global Health Research (GHR) team within the Science, Research and Evidence Directorate.

One role sits within the GHS Programme Management Office (PMO) but also works with the Global Health Research team. The PMO team is inclusive and supportive, comprised of a mix of professionals including project delivery, comms, finance, commercial and monitoring, evaluation and learning. You will be working to help the PMO support our GHS projects: the Fleming Fund, the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Fund, the UK Vaccines Network, the UK-Public Health Rapid Support team, and the International Health Regulations project, as well as the Global Health Research portfolio.

This role will support the smooth delivery of business operations functions both teams, with a specific lead on travel coordination.

The second role sits within the UK Vaccine Network Project team. The UKVN Project invests to support the development of vaccines against diseases with the potential to cause epidemics in low- and middle-income countries. It was established in 2015 after the West African Ebola outbreak illustrated a serious market failure in the development of vaccines against emerging pathogens. It has programmed over £110m of DHSC ODA (Official Development Assistance) across a portfolio of research projects, including funding research which laid the foundations for the Oxford-AZ Covid vaccine. You will lead on key aspects of programme management such as finance, risk management and monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).

We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. Both posts are available for full time, part-time(such as job shares) or flexible working arrangements. If you are looking specifically for part-time or specific flexible working arrangements, then you are advised to discuss directly with the vacancy manager. Our teams are based in both London and Leeds and successful candidates are welcome to work from our offices in either location. We particularly encourage applications from groups that are currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about the role