Deputy Director - National Hazard Assessment and Analysis

The leader of the National Hazards Assessment and Analysis division in the Analysis and Intelligence Assessment Directorate is a varied and challenging senior leadership role. As one of the key members of the Directorate's senior leadership team, you will be at the heart of the UKHSA's mission to prepare for, prevent and respond to health threats, save lives and protect livelihoods. The National Hazards Assessment and Analysis division's mandate is to deliver analysis and assessment of existing threats to UK public health and provide information to aid strategic decision making and policy at a national level. The Deputy Director oversees a broad programme of work including:

• Delivering analysis to support situational awareness, understand inequalities, and enhance strategic decision making at a national level across multiple hazards.
• Delivering assessment of strategically important national hazards for senior decision makers, synthesising intelligence from modelling, data science and clinical insights from AHI, UKHSA and across the health family.
• Delivering products across multiple hazards by developing our relationships with subject matter experts, continuously developing our knowledge and data expertise, and collaborating with modellers and data scientists, to ultimately transform the agencies capacity to deliver robust and consistent assessment of hazards at a national level.
Main duties of the job You will be expected to collaborate across the UKHSA to commission and build on the strengths of all relevant teams, as well as building strong relationships with counterparts in DHSC, NHS, the Cabinet Office and other government departments. Lead the national hazard teams and strategic oversight of the capability to provide analysis and assessment of existing threats to UK public health Provide timely and impactful assessment and forecasting to aid strategic decision making and policy at a national level and responsively during public health incidents. Deliver analysis to support situational awareness and understanding of inequalities across multiple hazards, synthesising intelligence from modelling, data science, clinical SME with all source data to generate insight for senior customers. Lead customer and partner engagement across UKHSA, government and with customers in the health family to identify policy requirements; prioritise assessment and analysis outputs, tasking modelling as required. Providing strategic oversight and quality assurance of all-source health intelligence assessment products. Build and develop AHI's health assessment capability, use of data, subject matter expertise and deliver the agency's capacity to deliver robust and consistent assessment of hazards at a national and regional level.

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