Managing the Cabinet Office’s only Senior Civil Service job share
Simon Case, Director General, Implementation Group at the Cabinet Office, talks about the challenges and benefits of managing an SCS job share.
Did you miss the second Civil Service Jobshare Network event?
Catch up with all the social media reaction to the guest speakers Richard Heaton, Deborah Bronnert, Sarah Healey, Sarah Hill and Jenny Dibden.
Set up a job share network in your department in 4 easy steps
...love to hear how these are working. But if your department doesn’t have one yet, I hope this will spur you on to start one. Please do get in touch...
How to make a job share partnership work
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Verity Prime and Russell Barnes, Posted on:
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Diversity and inclusion, Our Civil Service
...Working with your team Be clear how you work with your team, and set out your rules of engagement - both as a partnership and with the team. Do you...
Sir Bob introduces the first cross civil service job share event
...well job sharing fits with wider Civil Service reform priorities, and reinforced his and Sir Jeremy Heywood’s commitment to diversity in the Civil Service. The audience then had a chance...
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.
A marriage made in heaven
Work to live or live to work? It’s a sad indictment of modern living but many people feel the latter best describes their situation.
Not me though. I have a job share partner or as she likes to jest, a work-wife. And much like a marriage, job sharing requires commitment, loyalty and a healthy dose of honesty. It is not for the faint hearted but the rewards can be immense.
Jobsharing at the Department for Work and Pensions
Isobel Stephen and Jacinda Humphrey job share in the Department and Business Strategy Director role in the Department for Work and Pensions. They share their golden rules on working successfully.