How to Apply

To apply for this role, please provide the following documents by 11:59pm Monday 28th August 2023:

• A Curriculum Vitae (maximum two sides of A4) with your education, professional qualifications and full employment history.
• A supporting statement (maximum two sides of A4), setting out how you meet the eligibility criteria – make sure you refer to the contents of this document; please ensure your full name is clearly noted at the top of your letter.
• Recruitment Monitoring (here)– If you experience problems accessing the monitoring form please contact applications@green-park.co.uk.
• Disability Confident – Offering an interview to disabled people declaration – please confirm you are applying under this scheme on your recruitment monitoring form above.

If you want to know more about the role or selection process, please contact Richard Grayling or Emma Law from our Executive Search partners, Green Park on  Richard.Grayling@green-park.co.uk or Emma.Law@green-park.co.uk.

The Advisory Assessment Panel reserves the right to only consider applications that contain all of the elements listed above, and that arrive before the deadline for applications listed below.

We will acknowledge receipt of your application via email in 5 working days. If you do not receive this acknowledgement, please contact applications@green-park.co.uk.

Please submit your application with your personal email address to ensure you receive acknowledgement of receipt. Please note, to ensure confidentiality, applications submitted under a work email address will not receive acknowledgement of receipt.

Recruitment Process

Timetable

It is essential that your statement of suitability gives full but concise information relevant to the appointment, clearly demonstrating how you meet each of the eligibility criteria.

The Advisory Assessment Panel will consist of:

• Nick Dyer, FCDO Second Permanent Under-Secretary
• Lady Caroline Dalmeny, Independent Panel Member
• Philip Bouverat, Independent Panel Member

At the shortlist meeting the Panel will assess each application against the eligibility criteria and decide who to invite for final interview.

Interviews are expected to take place in London and will last for approximately 30 minutes. Further details about the format will be provided to you in advance.

These are Ministerial appointments and candidates who are deemed appointable may be invited to meet with Ministers before a final decision is made.

You will be able to claim reasonable travel expenses incurred travelling to and from the interview (please note you may be asked to justify travelling costs if the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office considers the claims excessive). Please contact applications@green-park.co.uk beforehand if you are likely to claim, along with the approximate costs.

Reasonable adjustments

As a Disability Confident employer we are committed to ensuring that candidates with disabilities are provided with the adjustments that they require as part of the recruitment process. We are able to facilitate a range of different reasonable adjustments; for example, large print recruitment documents or British Sign Language interpretation at interview.

If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please contact applications@green-park.co.uk  to discuss your requirements in more detail.