Jan Parkinson

Jan worked in the NHS in the early 1990s on the organisational development issues arising from the 1989 reform agenda.

She joined Gateshead Council in 1996 as Deputy Director, and in 1997 became Strategic Director of HR to the council as well as Personnel Adviser to Northumbria Police Authority. She remained in these posts for 10 years and during that time led major organisational and culture change programmes.

She took up post as Managing Director of Local Government Employers (LGE) in June 2006. LGE works in partnership with local authorities, regional employers and other bodies to lead and create solutions on pay, pensions and employment policy issues. It is responsible for negotiating the pay of 2.2 million public sector workers, and a paybill of over £46 billion.

She was President of the Public Sector People Management Association (PPMA) in 2005. She is also a non- executive member of Four Housing Group, a Council Member of the University of Newcastle, a visiting fellow at the business school of the University of Northumbria, and a Commissioner on the Women and Work Commission.