Associate Product Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

As an Associate Product Manager, you will:

• Work with Senior Product Managers across a portfolio to advocate for user needs throughout the organisation, prioritising delivery of greatest value.
• Manage a smaller product with support, or a subset of features of a larger product.
• Be part of one or more multi-disciplinary agile delivery teams to deliver excellent new products and iterations to existing products to meet user needs.
• Work with key stakeholders and a wide range of business colleagues to identify needs and manage dependencies across the organisation.
• Contribute to and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a high-level roadmap that helps users, colleagues and partners understand the direction and priorities of the service.
• Manage and refine the product backlog to ensure work is prioritised correctly and supports delivery of the product roadmap and wider team priorities
• Work collaboratively with the team and users to create user stories with clear acceptance criteria and validate them before development.
• Represent the service to meet governance commitments including Digital Service Standard assessments.
• Be actively involved in the Product Community of Practice and partner and user communities to promote the departments principles and foster a collaborative approach to solution delivery and engagement.

This list is not exhaustive.

You can find out more about what we expect from an Associate Product Managerhere.

In addition to the key responsibilities above this role will:

• Require adherence to all UKHSA Policies and Procedures.
• Contribute to the delivery of corporate goals and objectives.
• Support corporate service activity as set out in the Corporate Services Standard Operating Procedures.
• Perform any other duties that may reasonably be required by their line manager.

Essential criteria

• Agile working: is aware of agile methodology and how to apply the agile mind-set to all aspects of their work.
• Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.
• Operational Management: understand the operational processes of running and maintaining a product or service.
• Problem Ownership: understands and identifies problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution.
• Product Ownership: captures and translates user needs into deliverables.
• Strategic Ownership: focuses on outcomes, not solutions. Gets the organisation and team to buy-in.
• User focus: understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence.

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of Government digital and Digital Service Standards.

Selection Process Details

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

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You willbe requiredto complete an application form. You will be assessed onthe listed 7 essential criteria,and this will be in the form ofa:

• Application form(Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 750 word supporting statement.

This should outline how you consider your skills,experienceandknowledgeprovide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V please beadvisedyou will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible). Please do not email us your CV.

HealthjobsUK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than 750 words. We will not consider any words over 750 words.

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

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

If used, the piles Meets all essential criteria and Meets some essential criteria willproceedto shortlisting.

In the event ofa large number ofapplications wemay conductan initialsift, on the lead criteria of:

• Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.
• Agile working: is aware of agile methodology and how to apply the agile mind-set to all aspects of their work.
• Operational Management: understand the operational processes of running and maintaining a product or service.

Desirable criteria may be used in the event ofa large number ofapplications/largeamountof successful candidates.

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

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2:Interview

You will be invited to a single face to face interview at 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU.

If face to face interviews are planned, in exceptional circumstances, we may be able to offer a remote interview.

Behaviours/Experience/Technical skillswill be tested at interview.

There will be a 10-minute presentation to assess experience across the agile product delivery lifecycle. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Changing and improving (Lead Behaviour)
• Making effective decisions
• Communication and influencing
• Delivering at pace

Interviewsdates are to be confirmed.

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 links and 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 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 Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

Eligibility Criteria

External: Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including internal applicants).

Salary Information

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.

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Person Specification

Application form and supporting statement

• Application form and supporting statement

Interview - Behaviours

• Changing and improving
• Making effective decisions
• Communication and influencing
• Delivering at pace

Interview - Presentation

• Presentation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Core HQ's

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London

E14 4PU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency