Dundee man leads fight against period poverty

Account managers aren’t usually in sales. Usually a Business Development Manager is the sales arm who goes out and secures new clients. After the sale has been secured, an account manager is usually the liaison between company clients and all the internal teams in the company needed to meet client needs. Often their jobs have project management and purchasing elements as part of their liaison function.

He was also a well being officer in a school working with young people as well. So he would have implemented similar types of government initiatives at the individual school level before. So as a regional project manager, he can empathise with the well-being officers who will be implementing the period dignity initiative at the colleges in the region.

This role isn’t marketing per se as it’s not selling anything. So marketing experience would have transferable skills, but is not essential to a project management role.

Looking at Jason’s past work experience even if you put aside his lack of period related equipment I am not sure how he is the best person for the job.
He has worked in Sales for a Tobacco company and as a PT.
Where is his large scale Marketing and Project management experience?

Quite.

The job should go to the most qualified candidate, not the candidate with the vagina.

I agree.
Someone who has never had and never will have a period is not and never will be the most qualified candidate.

The job should go to the most qualified candidate, not the candidate with the vagina.

So, does that apply to other sensitive rules e.g. tackling race issues, trans issues? Should we put a middle age white male in roles to support these groups as he’s the “most qualified candidate”.

I think the circumstances around his appointment should be investigated. Seems like he’s got a career sponsor.

The possibility about open access for this man, he's not by any means a health professional of any kind physical or mental, to discuss reproductive biology and therefore inevitably sexual matters with underaged females in his job capacity, is also a matter that really, really needs looking at.

Is it Mridul Wadhwa all over again? But with a beardy white bloke, this time?

The message is that men know far, far better than women, about women's uniquely women's experiences. Be told.

Man wants to be Periods and Menopause Tsar for women and girls?

No. Just no.

He hasn't got a fucking clue.

And I'm also looking very very questionly at those who appointed him in this role.

Is it Katie Baxter?

The job advertising and application process needs to be looked into. Will be interesting to see 5he response to this FOI in a few weeks!
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/period_dignity_regional_lead_off_2

Exactly. Can’t talk to the press without permission & approval for release for your script once you’re in a public sector post anyway.

I imagine he's been instructed by whoever heads the period dignity partnership to stay well out of it while they scramble.

Yes, I agree there is reason for mild suspicion, as you say there’s a whiff of something may not be right. But I don’t have the surety to proclaim that the women who hired Jason “completely fucked up”

Im hesitant to condemn these women on the basis of suspicion and speculation alone.

'The new role will see him discuss periods and the menopause with women and girls, a position he is ‘absolutely buzzing’, though yesterday declined all interview requests.' 🤔

This man appears to be a shameless self-publicist

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11119419/Meet-macho-tobacco-seller-turned-PT-announced-new-36-126-year-period-officer.html

eh? @Discovereads I think (like a lot of people of this thread) you've got too stuck in a polarised view.

I completely agree with you that a man could do the job just as well as a woman, as set out in the spec.

But several things regarding the recruitment have come out:

• post only advertised for 9 days


• post not advertised widely


• post (deliberately?) not advertised in correct category


• one of the women on the working group has employed Jason for his previous three posts, all in different areas requiring different skills.

It's deeply frustrating because it completely undermines hiring a man in the first place, and they must have known how heavily it would be scrutinised.

Discovered reads.

this your mate or something. I seen you all over threads in scotsnet and here.

I dunno why you just don’t accept that many many women don’t like his appointment

Oh. So you have read the CVs of all the candidates, you were present at all the interviews and have experience in hiring project managers for the public sector? Come on then, spill the tea.

Yes, but unfortunately they've completely fucked that up.

The job should go to the most qualified candidate, not the candidate with the vagina.

Looking at the job spec that @saltedcaramel1 has posted, I can’t see how it was that there was not one single female candidate able to do the job.

My favourite part of the job spec:

• Self-aware with personal integrity

He's clearly having a lovely time. Doesn't that just say it all?

There's another picture that speaks volumes here.

https://twitter.com/toonmillie/status/1559468708556308480?s=21&t=XUfMqOkjoHbcE0leWjAnMg

Yep, the young girl looks mortified and uncomfortable.