Business Department’s ‘Senior Economic Shock Manager’ Offered Less Than Half the Salary of An NHS Diversity Champion – Guido Fawkes

Business Department’s ‘Senior Economic Shock Manager’ Offered Less Than Half the Salary of An NHS Diversity Champion

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DBT has put up a job advertisement for a “Senior Manager, Economic Shocks.“ There’s a tariff-shaped economic shock kicking in…

The senior manager in the Business Resilience department will be responsible for, among other things:

• Contributing to economic shocks response, supporting sector teams during critical periods and guiding them through best practice.
• Horizon scanning – identifying business and sector vulnerabilities that can lead to shocks.
• Ensure that sector teams, the Permanent Secretary and Ministers have oversight of emerging risks and opportunities at company and sector levels.
• Developing approaches to and delivering scenario planning exercises for sector teams

Applications close next Friday and successful applicants can expect to paid between £55,836 and £66,338 for the critical job.

Compare that to some of the other salaries offered in the public sector recently. £96,900 for a senior diversity officer in HMRC, £139,000 for NHS Wales’ “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Champion for the Women’s Health Network“; and £91,336 for NHS London North East’s “Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.” Designate tariffs as a microaggression and you’d have an army of about 10,000 civil servants to deal with them…