1. ‘ ‘A Level Playing Field’ Implementing change at organisational level Fiona Tierney CEO Public Appointments Service

2. A snapshot of the Civil Service in 2014 35,000 full-time equivalent Civil Servants, working in 17 large Departments and Offices and numerous smaller Offices and Agencies, managing over €53bn of public expenditure annually, and serving over 4.6m people.

3. 60% of staff, but only 33% of senior managers in the Civil Service are women More than 60% of the Civil Service are women Proportion of women at different grade levels, 2014 In the last decade, the proportion of women employed in senior management positions increased to 33.3% Proportion of women employed at Principal and above, 2006 -2014

4. Context Moratorium on filling all but essential vacancies Open, fair, transparent, merit based recruitment & promotion processes Proactive, family friendly policies Salary cuts, pension related deduction, nature of role Mentoring, coaching, education, development opportunities

5. Applications Received for the most senior roles

6. % Shortlisted by gender

7. Gender reaching final TLAC interview

8. Successful candidates – gender %

9. Levelling the Playing field Role models Best practice recruitment and promotion policies State Boards Marketing of career opportunities Civil Service Renewal Programme

10. Contacts www.gradpublicjobs.ie www.publicjobs.ie www.stateboards.ie Fiona.tierney@publicjobs.ie @feebryn on Twitter