Defra is recruiting “imaginative, free-thinking” advisers to help shape the UK’s farming policy after Brexit.
The department is looking for 'talented, imaginative, free-thinking and orthodoxy-questioning advisers' to help design and implement Britain’s post-Brexit agricultural policies.
The adverts on the government’s Civil Service Jobs website say that, above all, Defra is looking for candidates determined to “leave our environment in a better state than we inherited it”.
Candidates should be ready to “challenge received wisdom” and be able to “argue with passion and authority”.
The government department is looking to hire both policy advisers (Grade 6) and senior policy advisers (SCS 1 Level) on two-year contracts to work within the Strategy Directorate.
As one of the departments most affected by Brexit, there will be wide scope to develop new policy approaches after Brexit, the job adverts explain. And the chosen candidates will give policy advice directly to Defra secretary Michael Gove.
Applications close on 22 and 23 November.
