Job title: Mayor of London
Job purpose: Strategic manager for the largest city in Western Europe
Accountable to: Nine million citizens approx
Part time equivalent: 0.5
Effective part-time start date: 6 August 2014
Official part-time start date: 8 May 2015
Retirement: 6 May 2016
Accountable for:
a) Blue-sky projects; Headline-grabbing fluff
b) Transport; pretend-transport; vanity-transport
c) Fictitious control over airport-sized chunks of Kent
d) Greenlighting skyscrapers; Reducing affordability coefficients
e) Erecting the occasional viewscreen in Trafalgar Square
f) Replacing Fire Stations with Free Schools
g) Bearing down on EU Air Quality Directives
h) Emptying the Long-term Policy Cupboard
i) Budget of £20bn
Person specification:
• Experience of working with, or on behalf of, the private sector
• Can articulate policy through a smokescreen of self-deprecating obfuscation
• Capability to sound convincing in the absence of substance
• Ability to hire skeleton-free Deputy Mayors to work on one's behalf
• Can pop into City Hall on Wednesday afternoons to check that everything's ticking over
Behavioural competencies: Amiability, Bluster, Bravado, Delegation, Japery, fluent Latin.
Please apply to: The Greater London Public, two years ago. | | Job title: Member of Parliament for Outer Suburbia
Job purpose: Backbench rallying-point
Accountable to: Self
Part time equivalent: 0.5
Official part-time start date: 8 May 2015
Full time job begins: 6 May 2016
Promotion pencilled in: 8 May 2020
Accountable for:
a) Weekly Daily Telegraph column
b) Making surreptitious anti-European speeches
c) Opening the South Ruislip church fete
d) Being made Shadow Minister for London
e) Occasional guest appearance on Have I Got News For You?
f) Destabilising the party with a cheery smile
g) Extending the cycle hire scheme to Hillingdon
h) Snarky yet witty Twitter feed followed by millions
i) Supporting the Leader of the Opposition unequivocally
Person specification
• Ability to bide one's time whilst manoeuvring carefully into position
• An unrelenting focus on career progression and advancement
• A background in bandwagon-riding would be advantageous
• Willingness to collect a second salary without flinching
• Relentless charm in the face of all obstacles and adversities
Behavioural competencies: Ambition, Buffoonery, Charisma, Oafishness, Oratory, Patience, Whiff Whaff.
Please apply to: The Membership and Social Committee, Uxbridge |
