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Credit: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence v3.0 The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is the latest ministry to create a second permanent secretary role, as it seeks a “outstanding, collaborative and inclusive” leader to make a success of its major programmes. BEIS joins departments including the Treasury, Home Office and – most recently – the Department for Transport in creating a second permanent secretary post. The role, which has a salary of £160,000, involves leading “one of the largest and most challenging portfolios in government," according to the job advert. This will include oversight of several technology-centric initiatives and executive agencies, covering satellites and the clean-up of the UK’s nuclear facilities. The successful candidate will oversee delivery of BEIS’s net-zero programmes to decarbonise the UK’s building stock and the deployment of renewable and nuclear energy sources in particular. “These programmes are