Location: London
Job description:
Being the Private Secretary (PS) to the Chair and Deputy Chair puts you at the very heart of policy, relationships and oversight in a government department. It’s a position that is similar to Chief of Staff for a CEO or Chairman in a large corporate.
Your role is to support the Chair to carry out her role effectively, as the interface between her and the wider FSA and its diverse stakeholders. This means ensuring that she has the right advice at the right time on up-coming issues, events, meetings, and that agreed actions, decisions or requests are followed through. As PS you will actively contribute your ideas, perceptions and expertise. You will be alert to and research developments that the Chair will be interested in, or needs to know about. You will manage the workload of the Chair to balance current business demands with the need to anticipate future areas of focus. You will frequently accompany the Chair on visits across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to meetings with Ministers and shadow Ministers across the three legislatures, in Europe, and meeting consumers and food businesses.
Closing date: 19 April 2016
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