Food Standards Agency (FSA) sets up new consumer committee and seeks Chair and members

6 September 2007

The FSA is looking to appoint a Chair and members of a new Advisory Committee on Consumer Engagement (ACCE). Putting the consumer first is one of the Agency's core values, and the new Committee will provide the Board with quality assurance of the FSA's consumer engagement.

The ACCE will meet twice a year and report annually to the FSA Board. As well as reporting on the effectiveness of the FSA's consumer engagement, it will make recommendations for the strengthening of its engagement processes.

The Chair and eight members of the Committee will come from a variety of backgrounds which provide them with experience of best practice in consumer engagement, whether those backgrounds be business, media, academia or the voluntary sector. Applicants for the post of ACCE Chair will be senior figures in their current field, with extensive experience of chairing multidisciplinary committees.

Members of the ACCE are expected to bring with them specialised knowledge of one or more of the following:

consumer perspectives
analysis of consumer data
performance measurement or improvement
marketing innovation

At least two of the members will be expected to have practical experience of engagement with disadvantaged and vulnerable consumers.

John Harwood, Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency, says: "By acting as an external challenge to me and my colleagues, the new committee will help the FSA strengthen even further its engagement with individual consumers. We look forward to receiving applications from a range of disciplines and sectors and to putting the resulting shared expertise into practice."

Appointments will be on a two-year term.

For more information and an application form visit www.food.gov.uk/aboutus/jobs/

Completed applications must reach the Agency by 24 September 2007.

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