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Welcome from Diana Luchford
Hello I’m Diana Luchford, the Chief Executive of MOPAC. Thank you for your interest in the Chief Finance Officer and Director of Corporate Services position.
The Mayor’s office for policing and crime is a corporation sole, and a member of the Greater London Authority family. MOPAC is responsible for delivering the Mayor’s police and crime plan. Our priorities are tackling violent crime, hate crime and violence against women, keeping children safe, supporting victims and witnesses within a better criminal justice system and, last but not least, delivering a better police service.
We have a statutory duty to exercise an objective oversight function in assuring the Mayor on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Metropolitan Police Service and the MOPAC CFO works closely with their Met counterpart to discharge their fiduciary duties.
I became MOPAC CEO in April of this year and I can guarantee from my experience that you would be joining an organisation strongly connected to its purpose. We have about 150 staff here who set strategy and policy, commission services and oversee the Met. They are all committed to and passionate about the work they do. I was attracted to leading MOPAC because I want to contribute to building a safer London. Now I’m here, I want to build MOPAC into an actively anti-racist, anti-discriminatory organisation, committed to inclusivity, and I look to my senior colleagues to play their part in embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our work.
Like every other organisation, MOPAC has been impacted by the Covid pandemic, which, in common with other local authorities, will have long term impacts on our financial situation. We, together with the Met, face some financial challenges over the next few years which the CFO will play an important part in helping us navigate. You would be entering a complex political environment and the experience you would bring from similar settings will play a key part in helping us through.
If you feel you are qualified for and inspired by this job opportunity then I look forward to hearing from you.
Interested candidates should email a CV with a covering letter, expressing their reasons for interest and why they think they are suitable to
Covering letters should be no more than 2 pages.
Timeline
Closing date
Sunday, 13th September
Allen Lane interviews and technical interviews
Week commencing Monday 21st September
Interviews with MOPAC
12th and 13th October
Contact
Welcome from Darwin Bernardo
I’m a Londoner, and I’m a father. Every day, I have the pleasure and the responsibility of waking up and working to make my city a better, safer and a more prosperous place for thousands of other Londoners.
My name’s Darwin Bernardo, and as a Community Engagement Lead at the Violence Reduction Unit, I work with communities across London to co-ordinate and support initiatives aimed at reducing violence locally and across the city.
I joined the VRU in August 2019 when it was relatively a new team. I was attracted by the team’s ethos of putting communities across London at the heart of our work that we do in order to co-produce sustainable approaches toward reducing violence.
In previous roles, I’ve been privileged to work with some of these local communities, supporting families to gain access to employment, housing, education, and healthcare. I fully recognise that it is London’s community leaders and frontline professionals who are best placed to lead change within their communities.
Working at the VRU has enabled me to bring my lived and professional experience and my lifelong passion for social equality into a large and influential organisation with a regional reach, this means my work can now positively affect millions of my fellow citizens.
It’s important that people from these communities – like myself – are present within an organisation whose interpretation of data, formulation of policies, and distribution of public funds directly impact their lives.
The work is challenging but it can be rewarding too. Yes there are deadlines and some often tight and we work under pressure to get things done. But with colleagues as dedicated as mine, and with office fuel in the form of a never-ending supply of cake – I mean, fruits and salads! – we get the job done and serve London to the best of our ability.
As a working father, I also value the fact that I’m seen as a human and that flexible working policies enable me to feel like I can be a brilliant employee and a brilliant parent.
If you are passionate about London’s future, if you want to make this city better, safer, and fairer, and if you believe there’s still work to be done, this is where you need to be and I look forward to welcoming you. Take care.
