Programme Assurance Lead (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Purpose

Genomics England’s newly formed Portfolio Management Office aims to provide high quality support and resources to our most critical deliveries while ensuring progress is transparent to our leadership team to enable timely, risk informed decision making across the organisation.

This role will manage internal and external programme assurance for our largest and most critical programmes of work, ensuring business cases are produced in accordance with the government’s Green Book guidance, and providing expertise and support to our programme teams so they can fulfil their assurance requirements.  

Job Description

• Production, management and monitoring of Programme Business Cases in accordance with the Five Case Model, acting as the central co-ordination point for contributing teams.
• Gather requirements for the business cases, working closely with delivery teams, finance, and procurement colleagues. Provide appropriate assurance and challenge to the business/service and ensuring commercial and legal advice/support has been obtained
• Develop realistic plans and timelines to deliver business cases ahead of deadlines, providing guidance, education, and active support to Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) and delivery teams through the full end-to-end process.
• Manage relationships with approving boards, including DHSC IC, and DHSC Major Projects Team for Programme level business cases.
• Create and own Genomics England’s Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP), working with teams across Genomics England to gather input for their programmes, and working with the Planning Lead to align the IAAP with the company plan.
• Mange the internal assurance process, keeping guidance up to date and advising programme team. Aligning internal and external programme level assurance processes to reduce overhead on teams so they can focus on producing high quality assurance documentation.
• Promoting the importance of business cases and upskilling the Delivery Chapter in business case writing.
• Be an active member of the Delivery Chapter, attending Chapter meetings and working with other Delivery professionals in the organisation to define and disseminate best practice.

Qualifications

Essential experience we are looking for:

• Hands on experience writing and managing business cases using the five-case model.
• Experience managing internal and external Programme Assurance for major programmes in government funded context.

Desirable experience and training we are looking for:

• UK government “Better Business Cases” training.
• Experience in a health/life sciences/research context. 

Additional Information

Closing date for applications: 23rd October at 23:59

Salary from: £75,500

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.  Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Blended Working Model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding Background Checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.