This week’s non-job comes from SEEDA, the wasteful, unnecessary South East England Development Agency: “Head of Marketing & Communications£56,000 We’re assembling a brand new communications team to raise SEEDA’s profile. As part of this team you’ll be pivotal in making...

This week’s non-job comes from Hackney council: “Sport and Physical Activity Development Officer - Football £34,605 - £37,368 p.a. inc. The 2012 Olympics will be a landmark here in Hackney. We see them as an ideal opportunity to create a...

This week’s non-job comes from Newham council in London: "Parliamentary and Public Affairs OfficerAvailable at Grade PO4, salary £35,841 - £38,463 With experience of delivering parliamentary and public affairs projects/programmes, you’ll be used to lobbying senior politicians and officers to...

I loathe the smell of burning money in the morning. All that borrowing, going straight into the fire of local government bureaucracy. MFI may go broke this week, costing thousands of jobs, but there’s 575 new jobs in government, all...

The government says it is actively looking at ways to reduce public sector waste. I was sceptical and after reading it has recruited 50,000 more public officials this year, no doubt performing essential work, duplicating others' essential work, my healthy scepticism was well founded. The Taxpayers' Alliance - in their regular 'Non-Job of the Week' feature, have highli...

Browsing through the Guardian’s job pages this week, I came across this advert. The job itself didn’t merit the title of ‘non-job of the week’, I mean, if it’s a choice between equality officers and lawyers, the decision is tough...

More jobs lost in the private sector this week and the government keeps on recruiting with 686 for you to choose from. If you’re still guessing where Gordon’s borrowing has gone, look no further than our non-job of the week:...

After last week’s Food Policy Officer non-job of the week, here’s another food related story that’ll do more harm to your health than a fry-up. Council health chiefs in Guildford have forced through a policy compelling burger vans and cafés...

An overwhelming majority of people in the North East said an empathic ‘no’ to the North East Regional Assembly back in 2004. Since then, the government haven’t dared to put any other Assemblies up to a public vote, showing how...

If North Lanarkshire Council wanted good PR, they wouldn’t be advertising for this job which sits as our non-job of the week: “Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing£73,449 plus PRP (performance related pay) to a maximum of £4,899 We are...