Lead Scientist for the Animal and Zoonotic Viral Diseases Portfolio (ID1329)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 06 Mehefin 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £67,640 i £75,965 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | London £67,640- £75,965 Pro-rata salary for job share |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Mehefin 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | KT15 3NB |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 348575/1 |
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Do you have the ability to influence others and guide your team in a shared strategy?
You will have strategic responsibility for the Animal Viral Diseases and Zoonoses portfolio of science, which extends across APHA. You will develop and grow the scientific reputation of APHA nationally and internationally and provide leadership and management of the scientific portfolio of work, ensuring high scientific standards and timely delivery consistent with APHA’s Strategy. You will be helping to make a difference to the UK and contributing to global efforts to control and eradicate disease animals and protecting global biodiversity.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government. Our diverse teams of over 3,000 skilled and committed professionals come together to provide research, advice, and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.
The Science Directorate (SD) delivers high quality, high impact, and highly relevant multidisciplinary science. Our People are diverse, talented, engaged and inspired to deliver innovative outcomes.
Scope of the Job
You will have strategic responsibility for the Animal Viral Diseases and Zoonoses portfolio of science, which extends across APHA. Develop and grow the scientific reputation of APHA nationally and internationally and provide leadership and management of the scientific portfolio of work, ensuring high scientific standards and timely delivery consistent with APHA’s Strategy. Working in a collegiate manner with the Science Strategy Group of Agency Lead Scientists and the APHA Scientific Advisory Board.
Maintain a regular dialogue with customers. Ensure the timely proposal of new work that anticipates and meets Defra and other major customers’ future requirements.
Agree scientific objectives and approaches of all new contracts submitted by project leaders and co-ordinate and approve submission of proposals and budget bids. They approve all customer reports before submission and scrutinize and clear papers for publication.
You will provide input into corporate thinking and development of high-level strategy and business planning including relationships with other institutes, government departments and industry by discussion with members of the APHA executive team, Defra colleagues and key stakeholders. Identify and nurture important strategic collaborations for APHA, such as links with other scientific and veterinary institutes internationally, sister agencies within Defra, UKHSA, National Laboratory alliance, public sector research establishments and academia to facilitate the delivery of APHA science. Will work with APHA Scientific (the Agency’s commercial brand) to deliver scientific services to the private sector, where these services are core to the work of APHA. Provide regular update reports (monthly and annually) for directorate, Executive Committee. Ensure there is a Senior Responsible Officer for key projects and consortia as appropriate.
Develop and monitor key performance indicators for scientists working on the portfolio across the Agency. To include annual publication analyses and publication plans for your work area ensuring open science principle as appropriate and lead by example through an active and on-going publication record. Prepare and review Impact case studies. You are an exemplar in science communication, communicating science to non-specialists such as Government representatives, farmers, and other stakeholders in a compelling and understandable manner.
Main Areas of Responsibility:
Working closely with Heads of Department and resource centre managers, to:
- Ensure that our major customers’ needs are met (Defra, Devolved Administrations, Food Standards Agency, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, BBSRC, Other external funders) and that the research and surveillance that is carried out is delivered on time, within budget and is policy-relevant including spending reviews.
- Ensure that any additional research carried out on behalf of other customers is also fully aligned with the Agency’s strategy in your area of responsibility and provides added value to the Agency and Defra.
- Ensure the timely proposal of new work, that anticipates and meets Defra and other policy customers’ future requirements, current portfolio and areas of work that are in decline and may cease. Horizon scanning to anticipate and exploit scientific advances.
- Ensure that financial planning and management is carried out for your portfolio of work, working with project leaders, Heads of Department, and the appropriate project support officers.
- Ensure the scientific skills base required to deliver the science is developed and maintained across the agency, to suit changing needs, or delivered through established collaborations with others in the arena, in the most economical manner.
- Ensure that projects are effectively scheduled, prioritised and resourced. To assist in provision of sound business cases to support additional resource needs where appropriate. To ensure growth of the portfolio is sustainable within staff and facilities resource constraints where necessary.
- To develop, influence and maintain effective collaborations with key strategic external partners in the UK and worldwide, including management of Memoranda of understanding and service level agreements.
- To provide veterinary and scientific consultancy expertise in the programme area to APHA, including (APHA Executive Committee) and Defra, Scottish and Welsh governments, EU, FSA, VMD and others.
- Ensure that your portfolio of work complies with legislation for health and safety including dual use research of concern and loss/gain-of function studies, with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act and dangerous pathogens legislation and quality standards (ISO17025, GLP, GCP, ISO9001) as appropriate. You are proactive in ensuring a safe working environment through continual improvement to ensure performance within the Agency meets the required standards for safety and quality.