Charlie parker oldham biography of donald

  • AFTER five years at the helm, Charlie Parker is nearing the end of his tenure as Chief Executive of Oldham Council.
  • CHARLIE PARKER joined Westminster city council as chief executive in January.
  • Charley Harper was an American original.

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    THE PARKER FIASCO - THE SCANDAL CONTINUES.

    Charlie Parker was handed full residency rights as he was appointed to the £, role in July He began ‘transitioning’ in autumn, before officially starting work im January

    Tasked with making the civil service more efficient and work closer tillsammans, Mr Parker has so far created or merged several new departments, warned of staff “casualties”, appointed a string of top-tier ‘Director Generals’, announced a new States HQ, and agreed a £2million contract with EY to change the States’ “outdated” management of the public purse.

    But in all that time, it has emerged that Mr parkerar has been working without a set of ‘key performance indicators’ (KPIs) – an agreed set of standards against which his performance can be measured.

    Those benchmarks are usually set by the States Assembly, but it appears that the previous administration led by former Chief Minister medlem av senat Ian Gorst never finalised these in the 10 months between Mr Parker’s appo

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    Cash in on being unique, says new man at the top

    Reporter: Ken Bennett
    Date published: 13 October


    New council chief exec’s vision for borough’s future

    OLDHAM has to tackle head-on the threat of a Saddleworth breakaway bygd providing “real proper-quality services”, according to Charlie Parker, the council’s new chief executive who takes up his job today.

    Mr Parker says that the “sense of UDI, people wanting to be independent” can only be overcome if people see the value of the council.

    “Often councils are very easy to knock,” says Mr Parker, “and we have got to do something which says to people: ‘Well, actually, that worked very well. My council does that’.”

    And Mr Parker is keen to promote Oldham and its links with Leeds as well as with Greater Manchester as a unique selling point for business as well as residents.

    “We don’t promote — we don’t look out

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    “Some of that will be working at home, some of that will be meetings, some of that will be seeing, visiting people, some of that will be occasionally representing the island off-island… I am very conscious about spending time talking to people rather than being in meetings.”

    Communication is, after all, key when you’re undertaking the biggest single reform to Jersey’s government in living memory.

    In fact, Mr Parker describes his ongoing dialogue with staff as his greatest achievement in the year-and-a-bit he has held the island’s most senior civil service position.

    Pictured: Mr Parker gave each local media a minute interview following the release of his second six-monthly report.

    He explains that his ‘One Gov’ ambitions, which have included “casualties” at the most senior levels of the States, the creation of seven new departments and the appointment of over 30 staff in Director-level positions, have been coupled with numerous consultations known officially as ‘The Big Con

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