Capacity Strengthening Coordinator

£37,749 - £45,353

per annum, pro rata

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £37,749, UK Health Security Agency contributes £10,935 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• 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%

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.

Higher Executive Officer (HEO)

• £37,749- £45,353 (Inner London)

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)

UK-PHRST are seeking a Capacity Strengthening Coordinator with experience of coordination and administration of capacity strengthening activities in a Public Health setting. This person will be responsible for supporting the Capacity Strengthening Team to coordinate, deliver and evaluate activities that build capacity for outbreak response, including the UK-PHRST deployment training.

This person will need to possess proven experience of project coordination and arranging events for large numbers of participants, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to work closely with key stakeholders, external partners and 3rd party suppliers.

Working closely with the UK-PHRST Learning Design Manager and the Capacity Strengthening Team, the post holder will have responsibility for the coordination and administration of a range of training, learning and capacity strengthening activities in the UK and overseas for UK-PHRST staff and overseas partners, delivered both online and in person. This will include assessing needs, preparing and delivering training courses, and subsequently evaluating and reporting on training program effectiveness.

Support the UK-PHRST Capacity Strengthening Team in the coordination and delivery of specific projects within the UK-PHRST Capacity Strengthening programme.

• Coordinate the development and logistical delivery of a variety of capacity strengthening and exercise events designed to support increased capacity of UKPHRST staff and partners for outbreak response and develop health emergency response plans and those of multi-agency partners as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain criteria for the selection of training and exercise locations. Research, evaluate and contribute to an internal database of potential event locations.
• Lead on the identification of all requirements for events, ensure their delivery and provide facilities management capability prior to and for the duration of the course/event/exercise.
• Propagate all communications to course/event/exercise participants and other interested parties and manage participant responses to ensure as full engagement as possible and that appropriate evaluation data is collected.
• Write administrative presentations and material and assist/contribute to development of other course/event/exercise documentation.
• Research subject matter, including international, national and regional plans, policies and protocols relating to emergency/humanitarian situations, as relevant to specific courses/events/exercises.
• Assist in developing budgets for training and capacity strengthening activities in line with programme expectations, monitor expenses and produce monthly and quarterly reports.
• Ensure compliance with finance policies and procedures, taking prompt corrective action to address anomalies, inconsistencies or risks.
• Coordinate and assist in evaluating, report drafting, production and dissemination following each course/event/exercise.
• Support the project management of both face to face and online capacity
  strengthening activities.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of online learning activities including creation of online content and technical support during online events.

This list is not exhaustive

Fixed term
Loan
Secondment

Contract end date 31/03/2027

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at our Core HQ in Canary Wharf. 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 links and benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 13th November 2026

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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.

488668

Higher Executive Officer

Administration / Corporate Support

1

Core HQ Canary Wharf, London

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Successful candidates must pass a basic disclosure and barring security check before they can be appointed.

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

External: This vacancy is open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service as well as internal applicants.

If this role is fixed term and you are not currently a Civil Servant, you will take up the post on a Fixed Term appointment; you may be able to take this role up as a Secondment. If you are an existing Civil Servant, based outside of UKHSA, you will take up the post as a loan which you will need your department to agree. Loans are normally agreed for a period of two years. However, this may be extended where required, subject to agreement between UKHSA and your home department. You cannot take the post up as a fixed term. If you are an existing UKHSA member of staff, you will take up the post as either a level transfer or a temporary promotion as per the UKHSA's Pay policy.

If this role is permanent, it may also be available as a loan (for existing Civil Servants only) or secondment arrangement, subject to business need and agreement from the hiring manager and, where applicable, the employee's home organisation.

If more than the required number of suitable candidates pass the interview criteria, you may be kept on a reserve list for 12 months subject to your agreement. You may be contacted, in merit-order, if similar roles with closely matching essential criteria become available and the department choose to appoint from a reserve list.The panel will assess if candidates meet the requirement of the role first, using a specific benchmark system. If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.

From time to time, the role holder may be required to support UKHSA's incident response activity by contributing their appropriate expertise within an Incident Cell; during such periods, supported by the line manager, this work will take priority over normal day-to-day responsibilities, commensurate with their grade, skills and experience.

Future location

UKHSA is investing in a new state-of-the-art National Biosecurity Centre in Harlow, Essex, which will eventually bring together teams currently based at Canary Wharf, Colindale and Porton Down. For more details, please see: Huge biosecurity centre investment to boost pandemic protection - GOV.UK.

The new facilities will start becoming operational in the mid-2030s, with full completion by 2038. Staff will move in phases as facilities become available. If you're appointed to a role currently based at Canary Wharf, Colindale or Porton Down, please note that we'll continue investing in these sites for the next decade. As we get closer to the transition, we'll provide full information about relocation support available to staff.

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.

If successful for this role as one aspect of pre-employment screening, applicant's 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.

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.

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

• Name : Nigel Poole
• Email : Nigel.Poole@ukhsa.gov.uk

• Print
• Email
• Gmail
• Facebook
• LinkedIn