Applied AI Specialist (Productivity and Tooling)

NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

Exclusive discounts

Job summary

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is seeking an Applied AI Specialist in Manchester to drive practical adoption and governance of AI tools that improve productivity and decision making. The role emphasizes safe, ethical, value-driven AI aligned to NICE strategy.

The successful candidate will lead deployment of AI-enabled productivity tools, translate organisational problems into actionable AI use cases, and manage tool evaluation and governance to ensure beneficial

Responsibilities

• Lead the practical deployment and optimisation of AI-enabled productivity tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams Premium, low-code/AI automation, and internal AI assistants.
• Translate organisational problems into clear, testable applied AI use cases focused on productivity, knowledge work, insight generation and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate and select AI tools and features, balancing capability, risk, cost and user benefit.
• Configure, pilot, evaluate and iterate AI tooling, including prompt strategies, agent design, workflow integration and governance controls.

Job description

Do you want to do meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to society? Our main purpose here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things!

As Applied AI Specialist you will lead the practical adoption, optimisation and governance of applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (e.g. Co-pilots, agents, automation and decision support tools) that improve organisational productivity, decision quality and ways of working, while ensuring they are safe, ethical, value driven and aligned to organisational strategy.

Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

We reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications so please don’t delay your submission.

Please be aware interviews will be held face to face.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Leading the practical deployment and optimisation of AI enabled productivity tools (e.g. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams Premium, low code/AI automation, internal AI assistants).
• Translating organisational problems into clear, testable applied AI use cases focused on productivity, knowledge work, insight generation and operational efficiency.
• Evaluation and selection of AI tools and features, balancing capability, risk, cost and user benefit.
• Configuration, piloting, evaluating and iteration of AI tooling (including prompt strategies, agent design, workflow integration and governance controls).

We are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.

NICE Offer

• Generous NHS Pension
• Secure your future with one of the most rewarding pension schemes in the UK.
• Flexible working
• Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with options like remote working, compressed hours and flexible start/finish times.
• Exclusive discounts
• Save on shopping, dining and more with a Blue Light Card.
• Time to recharge
• Start with 27 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Inclusive staff networks
• Join supportive communities like Women in NICE, Race Equality Network, Disability Advocacy and NICE and Proud - we celebrate diversity.
• Tailored development
• Grow your career with personalised learning and development opportunities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elena Doyle Job title: AD - Architecture and Data Email address: [e-mail]

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