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13 will become just six when it comes to the senior leadership team at the States of Guernsey.
As part of major reforms within the island's civil service, Chief Executive Paul Whitfield is cutting his senior strategic team from 13 members down to six, each with an area to focus on developing strategy for.
This total redesign was announced in October, but today the new leadership structure and how strategic responsibility has been grouped into six different areas across government was explained to staff.
The six roles are as follows:
And with just six roles being given out, seven of the current senior management team are losing their positions as Chief Secretaries of Committees or other equivalent roles.
Pictured: Some of the most senior staff within Guernsey's civil service are now facing redundancy as 13 roles were merged into just six.
Mr Whitfield, who will head up the group and the man who has been responsible for these reforms, said: "These changes are being made to ensure that we have the right structure in place to be as efficient and joined up as possible in line with the objectives of Public Service Reform and the ongoing modernisation of our organisation.
"This will help us to put our customers first and improve communication between services where needed to avoid the perception or reality of “silo” working that causes issues for our service users. This is particularly important where there are increasing overlaps across many areas of government policy and service delivery."
The members of the new Strategic Leadership Team have been appointed into designate positions. This means there will now be a period of transition where they will continue in their existing roles whilst we work towards putting in place a new operating model.
"We will continue the process of change while ensuring that the organisation, the Committees and States’ Members are properly supported. The Strategic Leadership Team will, as 2019 goes on, work together to re-design our organisational structure."
Mr Whitfield said he will keep staff and the public informed as the Senior Leadership Team develops and implements (by the end of 2020) the fundamental redesign of the civil service.
Pictured top: Paul Whitfield.
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