UK Home Office wants to 'significantly expand' ODA portfolio

LONDON — Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has an “ambition to significantly expand the Home Office’s ODA [official development assistance] portfolio,” according to a civil service job listing.

The advertisement is inviting applications for a new role at the Home Office: director of ODA and upstream delivery, paying up to £110,000 ($135,000) per year. Candidate interviews are due to take place in mid-July.

“The role is to build and lead a new ODA Directorate for the Home Office and enact transformative change to focus the Department’s activities on strategic upstream interventions,” the ad states.

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