Vacancy -- Appointment of a Member - Ministerial Advisory Board (MAB)
Vacancy details
Function of body
Role description
Board members will undertake the following duties:
- Provide regular, creative and high-quality advice to the Minister for Economy to help improve economic well-being in Wales
- Horizon-scan to highlight areas of future challenge and opportunity, using individual and collective expertise to raise awareness of issues that will help shape the Board’s work programme.
- Respond to requests from the Minister and senior officials for policy advice and to test proposals as appropriate.
- Proactively identify best practice and learning from other nations and regions in the UK and internationally; and demonstrate how such examples might be used to inform thinking in Wales.
- Identify specific issues which would benefit from short, sharp reviews undertaken by bespoke task and finish groups or additional expertise that the Board may need to co-opt from time to time depending on its work programme.
Role and responsibilities of Chair/deputy Chair :
As well as being Chair of the board, they will be expected to act as the leading representative and to take the chair at board meetings. With regard to the latter this will involve: the determination of the order of the agenda; ensuring that the board receives accurate, timely and clear information; keeping track of the contribution of individual members and ensuring that they are all involved in discussions and decision-making. At all meetings the Chair should direct discussions towards the emergence of a consensus view and sum up discussions so that everyone understands what has been agreed. The deputy will stand-in only if the Chair is unavailable. The Chair and Deputy Chair will also be asked to attend the Social Partnership Group to provide feedback on the decisions and advice provided by MAB members.
Welsh language skills
Person specification
Board members :
- Be inclusive, listen to the views of other members and adhere to any accessibility adjustments which have been put in place.
- Be respectful of other members and ensure your interventions in discussions are respectful of others.
- Provide challenge and encourage others to contribute to the discussion.
- Bring your own skills and experience as an individual (with your personal life experience)
- Consult others to inform your contributions to discussions, while respecting the sensitivity and potentially confidential nature of the matters being considered.
Chair/deputy Chair :
- Be an inclusive leader, setting the tone of the meetings and ensuring that everyone, regardless of their grade, is treated as equal members.
- Ensure that members treat each other with respect.
- Ensure that all members are given the opportunity to participate to give their views and have the opportunity to reflect on the views of others.
- Understand the different ways people like to contribute at meetings and ensure that agreed reasonable adjustments are in place and maintained so that they can contribute in the most effective way.
- Ensure that the Board reaches conclusions in its discussions on papers, even if this means capturing a diversity of opinions if it is not possible to reach consensus.
Interview dates
Closing date
Additional information
For further information regarding the selection process, please contact:
Public Appointments Team / Public Bodies Unit
Email: publicappointments@gov.wales
For further information regarding the role of Ministerial Advisory Board - Economy and the role of members please contact economicpolicy@gov.wales
If you need any further assistance in applying for this role, please contact publicappointments@gov.wales.
For further information about Public Appointments in Wales, please visit www.gov.wales/publicappointments
How to apply
To apply for this role, click on the ‘Apply’ button below. The first time you apply for a post, you will need to complete a registration form for the Welsh Government’s online application system. You will only need to register once, and you will be able to keep yourself updated on the progress of your application, and any other applications you make, via your registered account.
Once you’ve registered, you’ll be able to access the application form. To apply you will need to submit two supporting documents. The first, a document outlining how your knowledge, skills and experiences meet the criteria for the role as outlined in the information for candidates. This document should be no more than 2 sides of A4. Your application may be rejected if you exceed this limit. The second document is a full, up to date CV. The two documents should be uploaded to the ‘Reasons for applying’ section of the online application form.
In your application, you will also be asked to provide details of any activities which have helped you to develop skills that would be useful in a public appointment role, and list the organisations for which you undertook these activities. We also need to know about any political activity that you’ve undertaken over the last 5 years.
It is recommended that you register for an account and access the application form as soon as possible so that you see how the application form is structured, before starting to prepare your evidence. You don’t have to complete the application form all in one go. You can save your responses, and log in and out as required, until you’re ready to submit – just follow the guidance in the application form.
If you’d like to apply for this opportunity in Welsh, please use the ‘Newid Iaith / Change Language’ link at the top of this page, to take you to the Welsh version of this advert, from which you can apply in Welsh.
If you need any further assistance in applying for this role, please contact the Welsh Government’s Public Appointments Team on PublicAppointments@gov.wales.
This vacancy is closed to applications.