How to Apply – Digital Transformation Non-Executive Director

To apply for this role, submit an application to the Public Appointments website via the following link, including completing the mandatory diversity monitoring questionnaire: https://apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9316

Following this, please also provide the following documents to Green Park using the below link:

• An up-to-date CV. Please submit a PDF document labelled ‘CV’ with your name and the role title.
• A supporting statement. Please submit a PDF document (maximum two pages) that outlines your interest in this particular organisation and role, and your fit against the essential experience criteria set out in the person specification and role description. Please label this document ‘Supporting Statement’ with your name and the role title.

If you would like to know more about the role or selection process, please contact Richard Grayling from our Executive Search partners, Green Park by emailing richard.grayling@green-park.co.uk.

The appointment will be made by the Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade.

Please submit your application by 13:00 Monday 22nd June 2026.

We understand the value of AI tools and recognise their benefit for people who may need help with their writing. However, please note our clients are increasingly rejecting CVs, expressions of interest, and applications where AI has left them generic, flat, or indistinguishable from others. 

By using your own words, experience, and ideas to express your motivation to and alignment with this role, you give yourself the best chance of standing out in a highly competitive field.

Selection Panel

• Robert Gillespie, Chair UKEF
• Tom Cooper, Director UKGI
• Richard Hawkins, Independent Panel Member
• Jackie Keogh, Non-executive Board Director

Conflicts of interest and Due Diligence

Please note that due diligence searches will be undertaken on shortlisted candidates and references may be taken up prior to interview or prior to any advice being put to Ministers. As part of our due diligence checks, we will consider anything in the public domain related to your conduct or professional capacity. This will include us undertaking searches of previous public statements and social media, blogs or any other publicly available information. This information may be made available to the panel and they may wish to explore issues with you, should you be invited to interview.

For further information on the standards expected in a public role, please review the Seven Principles of Public Life in the sections below.

UKEF partners with a wide range of financial institutions. This may give rise to the potential for conflict of interest (real or perceived) for candidates who are serving executives or non-executives within a financial institution. Please disclose any such links in your application so they may be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Opportunities

The government is committed to promoting diversity in public appointments. Applications from women, members of ethnic minorities, disabled people and other under-represented groups are particularly welcomed.

UKEF is committed to providing equal opportunities for all, irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, transgender and working patterns and to the principle of public appointments on merit with independent assessments, openness and transparency of process.

UKEF remains the most ethnically diverse department in the Civil Service with 31% of staff from ethnic minority backgrounds, and has more female staff than ever before.

Disability Confident Scheme for Disabled Persons

Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in the job specification are guaranteed an interview. Selection will be on merit. If you wish to claim a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, you should complete the relevant section of the monitoring form. It is not necessary to state the nature of your disability.

Further information regarding the scheme can be found at www.disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to make sure applicants with disabilities, physical or mental health conditions, or other needs are not substantially disadvantaged when applying for public appointments. This can include changing the recruitment process to enable people who wish to apply to do so.

Complaints

Should you wish to raise a concern or make a complaint, please contact us by emailing james.greengrass@green-park.co.uk.

These dates are only indicative at this stage and could be subject to change. Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, exercising flexibility through the recruitment and selection process. If you are unable to meet these time frames, please let us know in your application letter.

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.