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In other job creation news, James Purnell, the BBC's Director of Strategy and Digital, requires a Chief Advisor. (I've tried putting "strategy" and "BBC" into Linkedin, to assess the scale of management jobs in this new division, and whether or not there needs to be any more; I will be reporting back when I've calmed down)  From the job spec, he seems to want a combination of Miss Moneypenny, Sun Tzu and Lord Sugar.

The successful candidate will be an "Ambassador for Director of Strategy and Digital – a conduit between stakeholders and the Director in order to maintain progress against objectives and smooth operations of the division". He or she will "understand full perspective of issues or concerns raised and triage these, escalating only urgent and important issues to the Director S&D". You wouldn't want Jim dealing with BBC staff more than absolutely necessary, would you?

On the Moneypenny front, a key requirement is "ensuring that the Director S&D is fully briefed prior to meetings and that he has all the papers and information needed to make effective decision [sic] for the BBC". Avoiding documents being left on a train, say. And you'll be "organising and run the regular meetings with S&D Board, including setting agenda, recording minutes and tracking resulting actions". Creating plenty of thinking time for the Director.