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 Minister and even a brass band! Plenty of lively debate, inspiring ideas and a chance to link up with colleagues.
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Emma Hopkins, Head of Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict at the Foreign Office, talks about her involvement with the global summit and #timetoact.
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Conrad Bird, Director of the campaign at No10, shares his top tips for writing a winning nomination for this year's Civil Service Awards.
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.
Until the first of this year’s Civil Service Live events and the best opportunities in the calendar for meeting Civil Servants from all across Government and hearing what they’ve been up to.
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.
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.
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.
