Are you ready to join the FOS board?

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Do you have experience of strategic decision-making and a commitment to the ethos, values and independence of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS)?

If so, then you might just be the right person for the organisation as it looks for a new non-executive director. Whoever gets the job will be paid handsomely: £21,000 a year for just two days work per month in the London Docklands. The Ombudsman has published a job advertisement for the role, setting out the requirements for the job. Other qualities needed include experience of board level governance and experience as a chief executive, operations director or equivalent at an organisation "at least as large and complex" as the FOS. The successful candidate will "contribute to t...

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