Even though it will soon no longer exist, the Department for International Trade is pressing ahead with its bid to recruit a digital transformation expert for the £145,000-a-year role as chief operating officer. Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s departmental rejig, announced on 7 February, is breaking up the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and creating a new Department for Business and Trade that will merge BEIS’s business-focused functions with DIT’s operations. DIT’s recruitment for a new chief operating officer follows the departure of Catherine Vaughan to the Department for Work and Pensions, where she is now finance director. The job advertisement for Vaughan’s replacement acknowledges the machinery of government changes. It says the successful applicant will be working for the new department and offers the potential to be based in either Darlington or London. DIT perm sec Gareth Davies – who will be in charge of the new department – said it was an “exciting time” to join the organisation. Related content Trade department urged to push on with £26m tech transformation scheme HMRC kick-starts project to create £180m digital one-stop-shop for UK traders Regulator tells DIT to improve ‘unacceptable’ Freedom of Information delays “We have been created […]
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