Location
Hybrid working based at UKHSA core HQ in London (10 South Colonnade). Hybrid model requires a minimum of 60% of contractual hours (approximately 3 days per week pro rata) spent in the office. The office is modern, newly refurbished, with excellent city centre transport links and co-location with other government departments.

Hours
Full Time - Standard Civil Service working hours apply.

Salary
£46,310 - £52,113 (Inner London)

About the Role
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is seeking a Senior Technical Officer to join the Global Health Security (GHS) team within the Global Health Protection Directorate. This role offers an exciting opportunity to strengthen health security by ensuring UKHSA's global-facing activities are coherent, evidence-led and translated into practical action supporting UK readiness and decision-making.

The GHS team acts as a strategic and technical hub, improving coordination, prioritisation and delivery across UKHSA's all-hazards global health security portfolio. The successful candidate will support cross-agency planning, coordination, governance, and reporting, helping to translate lessons, insights and evidence from international engagement into outcomes that support UK health security.

Working closely with technical experts, policy colleagues and partners across government, the post holder will develop high-quality briefings, papers and evidence-based products. They will engage international stakeholders, including multilateral organisations and priority bilateral partners, supporting delivery aligned with UKHSA's global and domestic priorities.

This fast-paced, varied role requires strong stakeholder, programme and project management skills, and the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. The post holder will drive practical outcomes and improve how UKHSA plans, delivers, monitors and learns from global health security activities. Occasional national and international travel may be required.

The role includes supporting governance and senior meetings, coordinating contributions, preparing papers and records, and tracking actions to completion. The post holder will promote consistent approaches to delivery, monitoring and reporting, maintaining templates, trackers and tools for programme management, information sharing and organisational learning. They will support continuous improvement by strengthening ways of working and applying lessons learned.

Success in this role will be demonstrated through high-quality outputs, strong stakeholder relationships and improvements in UKHSA’s global-facing work.

Experience
- Significant project or programme management experience, including planning, tracking delivery to milestones and managing actions, risks and dependencies.
- Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships and working collaboratively with others to achieve shared goals, including with senior colleagues and partners.
- Experience, appreciation and understanding of the public health, wider health or public sector and awareness and interest in international and global health issues.
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills (oral and written), including drafting clear briefings and written products, and quality-assuring contributions from others for senior audiences.
- High level of IT literacy in MS Office software packages.

About you
- Ability to work effectively within a team, respecting others and learning from their contributions.
- Strong commitment to equality, equity and inclusive ways of working, including cultural sensitivity and self-awareness.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, respond to emerging issues and changing deadlines while maintaining quality and professionalism.
- Willingness to engage with international stakeholders and support coherent UKHSA engagement.
- Flexibility to support time-limited projects or surge activities as required.

Qualifications
- Educated to a minimum of Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent experience within a health science subject (human health, animal health or environmental health), international development or another relevant field.
- Desirable: Understanding of UK government departments and intergovernmental organisations involved in global health activities.
- Desirable: Demonstrable global health or international health project delivery experience including working with government departments and international partners at all levels.
- Desirable: Experience supporting senior governance processes, including commissioning inputs, drafting high-quality papers/records for senior decision makers, and tracking actions through to completion.
- Desirable: Experience working in a matrix environment, coordinating delivery across multiple teams without direct line management authority.