Pre-appointment hearing for the Chair-Designate of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) Contents

Appendix A: Campaign information

Campaign Information for Pre-Appointment Scrutiny hearing

Chair of the Office for Environmental Protection

Campaign Launch Date	10th August 2020
Campaign Closing Date	8th September 2020
Reason for any changes in timetable to that originally published	The final Interview date was advertised as 30 October however all interviews were held on the 23 October as all parties were available. The candidate pack highlighted both 23 and 30 October as interview dates.
Advertising strategy	The post was advertised with remuneration of £56,784 per annum for a time commitment of a minimum of two days per week. The advert was placed online on the Centre for Public Appointments website. Awareness of the vacancy was spread through a wide array of networks including: The Secretary of State highlighted the OEP Chair appointment campaign in the Secretary of State’s Environmental Recovery speech prior to campaign launch. A video launching the campaign shared on Defra and Defra Public Appointments Twitter accounts. Requests to stakeholders to share the campaign within their networks and through social media channels. The role was shared with a wide range of diversity networks with members encouraged to apply. A soft talent search was undertaken to identify a broad range of potential candidates. Potential candidates were directly targeted and previous Defra public appointment applicants with an interest in future roles were contacted.
Advisory Assessment Panel	Panel Chair: Tamara Finkelstein Permanent Secretary, Defra SIPM: Lord Kakkar Crossbench Peer & Professor of Surgery, University College London IPM: Dame Fiona Reynolds Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge IPM: Henry Dimbleby Lead non-executive Board member, Defra IPM: Lord Cameron of Dillington Crossbench Peer
Number of Applicants	21
Number of candidates invited to interview	4
Number of candidates found appointable	3

Diversity data

Table A: Gender

	Percent Male	Percent Female	Percent Identify another way	Percent Not declared
Applicants	52.4%	47.6%	0%	0%
Shortlist (applicants invited to interview)	See note 2	See note 2	-	-

Table B: Ethnicity

	Percent White	Percent Ethnic Minority	Percent Not declared
Applicants	100%	0%	0%
Shortlist (applicants invited to interview)	See note 2	-	-

Table C: Disability

	Percent Disabled	Percent Non-Disabled	Percent Not declared
Applicants	0%	100%	0%
Shortlist (applicants invited to interview)	-	See note 2	-

Notes on diversity data

1. Departments must consider their obligations under data protection legislation when sharing this data with select committees. Candidates must be made aware at the outset of the campaign that their data will be shared with the select committee in this way. The data should not be shared in a way which means that individuals are identifiable.

2. Departments should follow ONS guidance on statistical disclosure control to meet this requirement. Where there are fewer than 5 candidates in any given category, diversity data must not be shared as this is potentially identifiable. For example, if you have six women and four men on a shortlist—you should not give any gender information.

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