Electronic Information and Public Sector jobs

[matchmade]

I'm 42 and have 6 years' experience as an online project manager for a large publisher. My job is under threat of redundancy, so I'm looking at alternative positions. My problem is I can't find any websites with more than the occasional job in my business sector or related ones. I also can't find anywhere that advertises public sector jobs: the NHS and Civil Service must employ hundreds of information manager and web developers, but when I contact local NHS trusts, they say they advertise on an ad hoc basis and there's no central clearing house for jobs. Does anyone have any advice?

Some more detail: my job is a real mix of roles: maintaining web content, offering advice to other business areas, solving technical issues, project management, product development, business research and analysis. I'm not a programmer or an editor or business developer, so specialist websites for them have little that is relevant. I have a PhD in English and worked in academia for 10 years, but have no plans to return there. My other degrees are in electrical engineering and a Master's in electronic publishing.

I don't think I'm being too prescriptive in where I'm looking: I'm well aware for example that there are non-publishers like oil or finance companies with large information management functions, but I am simply drawing a blank finding jobs outside publishing/media. Job agencies I've tried say my background is "too specialised" or "too general" (thanks guys!). I've tried approaching firms directly and cultivating a relationship, as the books recommend, but no joy yet and it's a full-time job - very difficult to do when you're in the office all day.

[stoo_pid]

Doesn't answer all your questions I'm afraid but I've found the Sector1 site useful in the past when searching for public sector jobs.  You can set up various searches to get emails as soon as new jobs come in:
http://www.sector1.net/jobsearch/default.asp

Good luck!

[Mrs_Pegasus]

This is the one used in LG.

http://www.opportunities.co.uk/

[Mrs_Pegasus]

I also know that www.fish4jobs.co.uk normally pick up most the public sector jobs so its worth registering with them.

[alunrw]

Also here,
http://www.lgcnet.com/
This is the Local Government Chronicle website, theres a job link on this page that provides drop down boxes to tailor your choice - not sure of it's too relevant but we get this in work and theres always numerous Local Government vacancies there, mainly of a managerial- type level and upwards.
All the best

[Shipstabber]

Check out the Health Service Journal for NHS jobs.

http://www.hsj.co.uk/nav?page=hsj.jobs.homepage

[Andy008]

Investment banks in London will pay obscene sums for experienced data managers due to extreme shortage of talent. I assume you also have a solid quantitative grounding, so you should be fine. That said, you might not want to move to London and work in banking, but firms like Citigroup will pay �300k basic, with bonuses anything up to �3 million.

[admarlow]

Try recruitment agancies Badenoc and Clarke, Eden Brown, Trinity Solutions Group and Capita (I used to work for one of them....)

[admarlow]

oooh and capita too, good luck, let me know how you get on...