Appointment of a Chair for the Audit Committee

Animal Health is seeking applications for a new Chair of the Audit Committee. The successful candidate will have

  • Expertise in the area of audit and risk
  • An understanding of public sector audit and accountability requirements
  • Experience of working as a committee or non executive board member

The role of the Audit Committee is to :

  • Review  the comprehensiveness of assurances in meeting the Board and Accounting Officer’s assurance needs;
  • Review the reliability and integrity of those assurances;
  • Advise the Board and Accounting Officer about how well assurances consequently support them in decision taking and in discharging their accountability obligations.

The chair has particular responsibility for providing effective leadership to the group and representing the views of the Committee to the Accounting Officer  and other executive directors.

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Page last modified:01 September 2008
Page published: 01 September 2008

Animal Health is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and also works on behalf of the Scottish Executive, Welsh Assembly Government and the Food Standards Agency