Public Appointments Campaign Lead

Posting date:	12 November 2025
Salary:	£35,663 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 November 2025
Location:	Birmingham
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	436644/1

Summary

Join us at the heart of government as a vital member of the dynamic and supportive Public Appointments Team at the Department for Transport (DfT). The team sits within the Shareholding Appointments and Inquiries Directorate (SAI), which is central to the Department’s work on creating an inclusive transport network for everyone, as well as a safer, more secure and sustainable transport system. In this high-impact role, you’ll help shape the leadership of DfT’s public bodies, working closely with the Public Bodies Centre of Excellence, by supporting Ministers to appoint exceptional Chairs and Non-Executive Directors. Our mission is to empower the Department and its public bodies to deliver outstanding performance, meet Ministerial priorities, and provide high-quality public services to the nation. You’ll play a key part in creating diverse and brilliant boards - ensuring our leadership reflects the communities we serve and drives innovation across the transport sector. If you’re passionate about making a real difference and thrive in a fast-paced, high-profile environment, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of public service.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Managing Campaigns: Lead a portfolio of public appointment campaigns for DfT public body chairs and board members from beginning to end, often to tight timescales. This will include drafting candidate packs, essential criteria, and advice to ministers, facilitating and attending sift and interview meetings, stakeholder engagement and updating the Cabinet Office Applicant Tacking System throughout.
• Strategic planning: Oversee future and existing campaigns, including forward planning and engagement, risk management, and compliance.
• Candidate Care and Customer Service: Deliver and maintain high levels of candidate care and customer service throughout the campaign lifecycle.
• Candidate Search: Conduct targeted searches to find talented individuals, considering role requirements and diversity.
• Project Management: Manage a variety of additional projects aimed at improving the work of the team.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to our continuous improvement approach, helping to identify opportunities to innovate and transform our service.
• Expert Advice: Provide expert advice on all elements of public appointments, mindful of key policy developments, to a wide range of stakeholders, including Ministers, Cabinet Office, No.10, senior officials, policy teams, chairs of public bodies, and panel members.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with shareholder / sponsor teams, Public Bodies throughout public appointment campaigns.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. This role doesn’t currently require you to line manage, however you may be given this opportunity in the future.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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