Councils are advertising for jobs paying up to £550 a day on a working-from-home basis the Mail on Sunday has revealed. Stock image of a man working from home

Councils are advertising for jobs paying up to £550 a day on a working-from-home basis.

The Mail on Sunday has uncovered scores of taxpayer-funded public sector roles being carried out remotely.

The adverts appear to show that the post-Covid move to home working has become a permanent fixture of local government.

One job as an Interim HR Project Manager at a ‘London-based Local Authority’ equates to an annual salary of £143,000, or £550 a day. The successful candidate will work on ‘a number of projects across the Organisational Design Programme within the Programmes and Change division’.

Another highly paid vacancy is for a £370-a-day Interim Project Manager – Population Health, who will be allowed to work remotely for a care board in the South East.

Councils are advertising for jobs paying up to £550 a day on a working-from-home basis the Mail on Sunday has revealed. Stock image of a man working from home

Councils are advertising for jobs paying up to £550 a day on a working-from-home basis the Mail on Sunday has revealed. Stock image of a man working from home

Councils are advertising for jobs paying up to £550 a day on a working-from-home basis the Mail on Sunday has revealed. Stock image of a man working from home

A job as a £46,634-£52,625 ‘Business Manager’ in Surrey County Council’s adult social care department can also be carried out on a ‘flexible’ basis between ‘offices across the county and working from home’. The winning applicant will be encouraged to ‘promote people’s independence… and to recruit a more flexible and diverse workforce’.

Meanwhile, Test Valley Borough Council in Andover, Hampshire, is advertising for a Parking Manager on between £44,897 and £49,165, for 37 hours a week on a ‘home working’ basis. The successful applicant will oversee a £1.6 million budget, which includes managing a team of parking wardens.

Likewise, Surrey County Council’s new Health and Safety Adviser (annual salary £36,282) and Central Bedfordshire’s new Gypsy and Traveller Compliance Officer (between £31,000 and £40,999) will both work from home – with the latter expected to attend the council’s offices just once a month as part of a role that involves ‘enforcing alleged breaches of planning control’.

Ipswich Borough Council wants a Climate Project Officer to work a 37-hour week from home on £32,798 to £34,373 in a bid to ‘reduce the Council’s impact on the environment through carbon reduction’.

The adverts appear to show that the post-Covid move to home working has become a permanent fixture of local government. Stock image of an empty office

The adverts appear to show that the post-Covid move to home working has become a permanent fixture of local government. Stock image of an empty office

The adverts appear to show that the post-Covid move to home working has become a permanent fixture of local government. Stock image of an empty office 

Joe Ventre, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Taxpayers begrudge paying for empty desks. With flexible working becoming more popular, local authorities must ensure this doesn’t come at the expense of services being properly delivered.

‘If council officials insist on working from home, unused office space should be sold to make savings.’

Experts say candidates are in a strong position as there are 1.3 million vacancies across the economy.

Our findings come just months after Freedom of Information requests revealed that in some local authorities, 90 per cent of staff are still working at home, with senior executives reportedly placing no pressure on employees to return to their desks.

Former Cabinet Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, who led the fight to get civil servants back to the office, said: ‘People doing jobs with those levels of very high, taxpayer-funded salaries should be expected to come into the office.’

A spokeswoman for the Local Government Association said: ‘Staff work tirelessly for their communities, whether from home, in offices or out and about in parks, leisure centres or as field-based staff, such as social workers and refuse collectors.’

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