Department for Culture Media and Sport
public appointments processes
Filling Vacancies
Ministerial appointments to the boards of DCMS public bodies fall into two main categories, to which different OCPA (Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments) procedures apply:
these are posts which offer remuneration of £5,000 or more or where annual grant-in-aid to the public body exceeds £10m. They are the Department's most high-profile posts, and we hold interviews for them.
The critical path for making an upper tier appointment PDF (10kb)
these are posts which offer remuneration less than £5,000 and grant-in-aid to the body is less than £10m. Interviews are not required for low profile, lower tier posts; the final selection of appointable candidates is carried out by an advisory (paper) panel.
The critical path for making a lower tier appointment PDF (19kb)
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