The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is seeking to appoint two Non-Executive Directors to the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), with experience likely to include financial management and/or audit and risk or leadership in a large, complex public body or business.
The IPO is responsible for the UK’s IP policy, educating businesses and consumers about IP, supporting IP enforcement and granting UK patents, trademarks, and design rights. All of this supports innovation and helps our economy and society to benefit from knowledge and ideas.
The IPO is at an exciting point in its 170-year history. With its ambitions of delivering excellent IP services and creating a world leading IP environment, the IPO has a crucial role in delivering the government’s Innovation Strategy and in ensuring the UK is the most innovative and creative country in the world.
The IPO Steering Board helps to deliver these ambitions and provides advice, guidance, and constructive challenge to the executive team on the strategy, operation and development of the IPO.
As a Non-Executive Board Director of the IPO, you will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation is successful and effective as a service provider and employer. Non-Executive Directors play a key role in setting the organisation’s strategic direction and plan, as well as ensuring continuous organisational improvement, high-performance management, excellent customer focus, service delivery, accountability and effective corporate governance. You will provide constructive challenge and scrutinise the performance of the Chief Executive and other executives in meeting the IPO’s objectives, in addition to providing appropriate guidance and support.
IPO is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and is an equal opportunities employer, which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of age, sex, race or ethnic background, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
For further information or to apply, please go to the Public Appointments website.
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