Civil Service Live: Bristol - pictures and round-up
The first of this year's Civil Service Live learning events kicked-off in Bristol on Wednesday (18 June). We had a full house of civil servants, senior leaders, volunteers, stands, the...
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Weekend links: savings, capability refresh and finding a clean beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMjZgPF2d0...in this handy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMjZgPF2d0 We also launched the Capabilities Plan Refresh today (13 June). This came with some fascinating blogs by civil servants on the frontline, including some brilliant...
Global Summit to End Sexual Violence
Sexual violence in conflict is one of the greatest and most persistent injustices in the world today. It is also one of the most neglected. Over the last 2 years,...
Weekend links: Civil Service Awards, Volunteering Week, tackling modern slavery and more
...opened today for this year's Civil Service Awards. DWP and the CPS have made the early running with nominations, but you've got until 25 July to get yours in. If...
How to write the perfect Civil Service Award nomination
The Prime Minister presenting the Growth Award to the Britain is GREAT campaign team The Civil Service Awards celebrate and promote excellence across government. They are an opportunity to reward...
Why I became a Dementia Friend
HM Treasury's Daniel Poxon became a dementia friend for both profession and personal reasons, but the scheme has become a useful tool in his day-to-day role organising volunteering activities in the department.
Civil Service Live: 48 sleeps to go!
...talking about how we can use satellite data to improve policy making, to DWP on the neuroscience of leadership, to the Government Digital Service on practical ways to improve your...
A tale of two women – how two part-timers became a job-split
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Renée Smith Gorringe, Posted on:
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Diversity and inclusion, Our Civil Service
When the Government Office network was abolished, and we both applied for the same position in the newly created Local Intelligence Team in the office of Civil Society (Cabinet Office), we were offered the post on a job-share basis. We are part of a team of 9, with 1 colleague based in each of the other 7 English regions and we have an outward facing role, engaging with stakeholders from voluntary and community sector organisations, local authorities and business across the whole of the South West.
The ambassadorial job share
My husband and I have been job-sharing the role of Ambassador in Armenia for the past two years. We decided to use the format pioneered by the first couple to job-share the head of post role – four months on/off – and have found this has worked very well, for us, for the Embassy team and for our wider external contacts. It is a long enough period to see a lot of decisions/ business through and to (re)establish yourself as the person in the hot seat; but it is not so long that you lose touch with the key issues or the key people.
The benefits are obvious…
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Sarah Healey, DCMS Permanent Secretary and CS Disability Champion, Posted on:
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Diversity and inclusion, Leading and managing change, Our Civil Service
I’m a big fan of job shares – so am delighted this network has been established. I was recently involved with some work on getting more women into senior positions in the civil service. One of the major issues we identified was managers not understanding the benefits of having jobsharers working for them – and not thinking creatively enough about how they can design jobs to suit jobsharers.