Every year, we ask you, the members of our network, to help us in our search for leaders to shape what we do over the next 12 months. Nominations are now open for the 2018 Guardian Public Leaders editorial advisory board.
Here at the network, we take an independent view of public leadership and policy, and in this, we have been very grateful for the valuable input by the members of our 2017 board: Michael Beaven, Niall Bolger, Dwayne Branch, Kate Carr, Aisling Duffy, Peter Fleming, Karen Holmes, Hayley Lewis, Steve McGuirk and Matt Stevenson-Dodd, all of whom have been a fantastic resource and have helped us see the Public Leaders Network achieve even wider audiences this year. A big thank you to them all.
We’re now looking for nine leaders to join our 2018 board. Once again, we want a board that reflects all those who deliver public services, including central government, local government and the private and voluntary sectors.
Why become a member of the Public Leaders board?
Guardian Public Leaders is unique in its breadth of public services coverage. When someone joins our board, they get a chance to come into the Guardian twice a year, to share their experience and catch up with leaders from other parts of public service. Former board members have found it stimulating, we hope – and of course it helps us ensure that we reflect the real mood of what’s going on in public services.
What’s involved?
We know public leaders are busier than ever. So we don’t ask a huge commitment from our board. We ask our nine board members to attend two meetings a year, at the Guardian’s offices in London, one in mid-February and the second in June.
At each meeting, we ask every board member to give a brief overview of policy, management and leadership issues in their own sector. We then collectively, as a board, will consider what the key themes will be for the year.
We also ask our board members to help us disseminate our content via their own social channels. They don’t have to write anything for the network – but all contributions are welcome.
Who is eligible?
Nominees can work in any organisation and in any role, as long as they have a proven role in public services. The final board will be chosen from a shortlist decided by editor Jane Dudman, and will represent as far as possible a wide cross-section of those planning, designing and leading UK public services, including leaders from the private and voluntary sectors.
How to nominate
Before you nominate anyone, please check they are happy for you to do so, that they can attend two meetings of the board, and that all their contact details are up-to-date. You may not nominate yourself and you must be a member of the Public Leaders Network to take part in this election.
Nominations are now open, and will close at midnight on Monday 8 January, 2018. Please provide full contact details for yourself, as a nominator, and for the leader you are nominating, including email, phone number, job title and organisation, plus a brief sentence on why you think your nominee should join our board.
What happens next
Once nominations have closed, the editor will draw up a shortlist and the final board members will then be agreed in consultation with members of this year’s board.
We will contact all successful nominees by Thursday 11 January 2017 and the new board will be published on the public leaders network.
Any queries?
Email public.leaders@theguardian.com or jane.dudman@theguardian.com if you have any queries.
Nominate now
If you’re ready to nominate, you can now make your nomination here:
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