A taxpayer-funded body has sparked fury over promoting “woke non-jobs” after hiring a diversity boss on a near-£100,000 salary.
The National Audit Office (NAO), responsible for auditing Britain’s central Government departments and public bodies, announced it was hiring a new “Head of Diversity & Inclusion and CSR” last month.
The body’s near-1,500-word job posting declared that it was looking to sign a new D&I boss to “take the NAO to the next level”.
Meanwhile, its 24-page diversity strategy pamphlet pledges to “build a robust pipeline of diverse talent and a culture of fairness and inclusion” throughout the Office.
The body’s near-1,500-word job posting declared that it was looking to sign a new D&I boss to ‘take the NAO to the next level’
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The hiring window closed some days ago – but any successful applicant can expect to be paid between £75,000 and £80,000 for the gig.
But William Yarwood, media campaign manager at the TaxPayers’ Alliance said the five-figure sum was a cause for concern.
He told GB News: “Taxpayers are sick of coughing up for woke non-jobs.
“While the National Audit Office was right to condemn the public sector, especially local authorities, for failing to provide accurate accounts, they now need to look themselves in the mirror and consider the state of their own.
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“It’s time for a long-overdue audit on all DEI jobs in the public sector.”
The body’s advertised salary would mean the new diversity boss earns far more than median civil servants – who earn £33,980 on average, the Institute for Government says.
Meanwhile, median gross annual earnings for full-time employees UK-wide stood at £37,430 earlier this year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The NAO also says that any potential D&I chief will qualify for a lucrative Civil Service pension, will be allowed to work from home on a “hybrid hours” set-up, and adds that “exceptional candidates” can expect to be paid even more than the £80,000 rate.
The body’s advertised salary would mean the new diversity boss earns far more than median civil servants
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The responsibilities of the NAO’s next diversity boss are expected to include making sure D&I is “embedded in everything the organisation does”, as well as spearheading plans to boost “workforce diversity and inclusive culture”.
Its strategy dossier says that “integrating equality, diversity and inclusion within… our cultural DNA” is “central to being an exemplar organisation”.
The NAO also stresses how it wants to “create a fully diverse workforce by 2024-25” – and has set out a set of quotas on what it wants this to look like.
By 2025, these are set to include:
- 50 per cent women;
- 35 per cent ethnic minorities;
- 14 per cent disabled people;
- 88 per cent state-educated people.
As a result, the NAO hopes that a more diverse workforce will foster “an inclusive approach which considers intersectionality when assessing issues” of audit.
GB News has approached the National Audit Office for comment.
