DfT Public Appointments

Public Appointments are typically Ministerial appointments of non-executive Chairs and Board members to the Public Bodies, sometimes known as Arm’s Length Bodies (ALB), sponsored by the Department for Transport (DfT). These bodies play a vital role in delivering public services. Non-Executive appointees to the boards of DfT’s ALBs play a crucial role providing leadership, direction, and challenge – this includes setting the organisation’s strategy, holding senior staff to account – this includes holding managers to account, representing the work and views of the body – this might be to ministers, parliamentarians, key stakeholders. What we look for in Public Appointees Non-Executive Director or Chair roles on one of the DfT’s ALBs require a range of skills depending on the role for example: leadership, strategic thinking, governance, financial, communications and for some roles technical knowledge. We want to ensure the leadership of our public bodies reflects the communities that they represent. We are keen to encourage applications from across the UK, from minority ethnic candidates, female candidates, candidates with a disability and candidates with other protected characteristics. DfT Public Bodies What is a public body? A public body is generally thought of as an organisation that delivers a public service, is not a government department and operates to a greater or lesser extent at arm’s length from Ministers. DfT ministers make appointments to 24 public bodies, with all the vacancies advertised on the HM Government Public Appointments Website. Appointments are subject to a fair, open and transparent recruitment process that is overseen and scrutinised by the independent Office for the Commissioner for Public Appointments (Commissioner for Public Appointments), where regulated. We advertise our posts on the Cabinet Office website, which can be found here: https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/search-appointments/