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Deployment & Readiness Officer

  • Public sector
  • Birmingham
  • 10/04/2025
  • £31,997.00 - £43,552.00 /yearly
  • Full Time & Permanent
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Job Overview

Location

Birmingham

Job Type

Full Time & Permanent

Salary

£31,997 - £43,552 yearly

Date Posted:

10/04/2025

Expiration date:

08/05/2025

Additional Detail

Job ID

24120

Work Location

Remote and/or Onsite

Job Description

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and London

Job summary

The Deployment and Readiness Support role sits within the Storage and Distribution Team and works directly to the Deployment and Readiness Lead. The specialist is responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient execution of vaccine deployment campaigns by supporting readiness and preparedness activities. This role involves close collaboration with internal teams, external partners, and key stakeholders to manage and track critical data, update relevant documentation, and monitor deployment progress. The specialist plays a key role in coordinating activities, resolving operational challenges, and ensuring all readiness milestones are met on time. Their work directly contributes to the successful and timely rollout of vaccine programs.

Job description

  • The Deployment and Readiness Support provides essential support across vaccine programmes, ensuring that readiness activities are well-coordinated and aligned with deployment timelines.
  • Working closely with internal teams and external partners, they will focus on gathering, managing, and reporting critical data and assisting in the smooth preparation for vaccine deployment campaigns.
  • The role serves as a vital link in the operational delivery chain, ensuring no detail is overlooked in readiness planning.
  • Assist in the coordination of readiness activities for vaccine campaigns, ensuring key deployment milestones are supported and tracked.
  • Support the preparation of readiness documentation, including updates to deployment plans and vaccine-related materials.
  • Maintain up-to-date records of vaccine characteristics, deployment timelines, and readiness activities, supporting accurate reporting to stakeholders.
  • Support the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives by providing administrative and logistical support for cross-functional workshops and reviews.
  • Prepare summary reports and dashboards to highlight readiness status, risks, and dependencies for internal teams and external partners.
  • Assist in the coordination of updates to critical deployment materials, such as the Green Book and training content, ensuring alignment with campaign deadlines.
  • Provide logistical support for meetings, including preparing materials, capturing actions, and following up on progress with relevant stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with internal teams, including vaccine programme leads and deployment partners, to ensure timely data sharing and issue resolution.
  • Liaise with 3PL partners and other stakeholders to monitor operational readiness and escalate any potential risks or issues to senior team members.
  • Identify, discuss and action own professional performance and training / development needs with your line manager through appraisal / individual development plan.  Attending internal / external training events
  • To participate in all mandatory training as required, i.e. fire safety, information governance and all other mandatory training.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

  • Organisational and Coordination Skills: Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks, coordinate activities, and track progress against deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Data Management and Reporting: Experience in maintaining accurate records, preparing reports, and creating dashboards to support operational decision-making.
  • Stakeholder Support and Communication: Strong communication skills to liaise effectively with internal teams, external partners, and senior colleagues, providing timely updates and escalating issues when needed.
Alongside your salary of £31,997, UK Health Security Agency contributes £9,269 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift  

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 3 essential criteria  and this will be in the form of a:  

  • Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)  
  • 500 word Statement of Suitability.  

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria. 

Statement of Suitability and Application form will be scored together.

Longlisting: 

In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of: 

  • Meets all essential criteria  
  • Meets some essential criteria  
  • Meets no essential criteria  

In order to be shortlisted you must meet all essential criteria and some essential criteria.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on: 

  • Organisational and Coordination Skills: Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks, coordinate activities, and track progress against deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment  

Please do not exceed  500 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage. 

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles) 

You will be invited to a remote interview.  

Behaviours will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours will tested during the interview stage.

The Behaviours will be:

  • Changing and Improving 
  • Making Effective Decision
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. 

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London) Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.   

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Reasonable Adjustments 

The Civil Service is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, we will consider any reasonable adjustments that could help you. An adjustment is a change to the recruitment process or an adjustment at work. This is separate to the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need an adjustment to be made at any point during the recruitment process you should contact the recruitment team in confidence as soon as possible to discuss your needs.  

You can find out more information about reasonable adjustments across the Civil Service here: https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments/ 

International Police check 

If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check.  This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.  

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

Your application may be rejected and/or you may be subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own. 

Internal Fraud check  

If successful for this role as one aspect of pre-employment screening, applicants personal details name, national insurance number and date of birth - will be checked against the Cabinet Office Internal Fraud Hub and anyone included on the database will be refused employment unless they can show exceptional circumstances. Currently this is only for External candidates to the Civil Service. 

Careers website 

Please visit our careers site for more information https://gov.uk/ukhsa/careers 



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team

Further information

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: [email protected] If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

 
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