Location
Canary Wharf Estate, London. This is an office-based role with no hybrid working option. The offices are modern, newly refurbished, and benefit from excellent city centre transport links and co-location with other government departments.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£52,113 per annum

About the Role
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is a scientific expert advisory committee providing advice to HM Government on immunisation matters. The JCVI is supported by the JCVI scientific secretariat within UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). We are recruiting two Senior Scientists (one permanent, one fixed-term) to provide scientific secretariat support for the JCVI, its sub-committees, and other expert groups.

As a Senior Scientist, you will work closely with the Chair and members of the JCVI and UKHSA expert groups to plan and organise meetings, produce scientific and technical papers, and support decision-making processes. You will manage a portfolio of work, which may include specific disease areas or sub-committees, ensuring smooth running of meetings by preparing agendas, recording discussions, drafting minutes, and following up on actions.

Your role will also involve drafting JCVI advice for publication, coordinating with UKHSA divisions and government departments, and contributing to updates of the UKHSA publication “Immunisation Against Infectious Diseases” (the “Green Book”). You will monitor relevant scientific literature, surveillance bulletins, and media coverage, attend conferences and seminars, and manage correspondence from a wide range of stakeholders with discretion and sensitivity.

This role requires strong scientific knowledge, excellent communication and organisational skills, and the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders. You will be motivated by immunisation and healthcare policy and interested in how vaccination programmes progress from evidence to policy and implementation.

Experience
- Experience of scientific administration and/or scientific committee management
- Experience of writing scientific reports
- Ability to analyse complex issues from multiple sources
- Experience producing descriptive epidemiology reports independently
- Experience managing workstreams involving multiple stakeholders

About you
- Strong written and oral communication skills with attention to detail
- Ability to tailor communications to expert and non-expert audiences
- Strong organisational and administrative skills with effective prioritisation
- Strategic thinker able to anticipate and resolve problems autonomously
- Enthusiastic about immunisation and healthcare policy
- Ability to use initiative and make recommendations to improve deliverables and compliance

Qualifications
- Science degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. biological sciences, immunology, microbiology)

Desirable
- Proven and relevant research experience on vaccines or infectious diseases
- Knowledge of communicable disease surveillance