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Jenny Ward

Issues Manager/Liaison Team Leader

I was born in Stamford, in the heart of ‘RAF country’ and spent my first 18 years living in this beautiful, but quiet, market town. I then moved to London seeking excitement and adventure and spent the next two years working as a civilian with the Metropolitan Police before moving to the NHS where I worked as a PA for a year.

Having completed my ‘tour’ in the big city, I moved back to Lincolnshire, and managed to get a job working as a Civil Servant with the Ministry of Defence at RAF Alconbury, believing that this would just be for a year or so. This ‘stop-gap’ lasted 17 years! The majority of that time was spent working with the United States Air Forces on units around the UK. During my time I worked in various administrative and management jobs, including posts in the medical facility and fire station (that was a tough posting!!) before I moved to the Civilian Personnel Department, where I spent the next 7 years trying to explain the mysteries of MoD civilian management rules and regulations to military line managers.

I then had an early mid-life crisis and somehow found myself accepting another MoD job back in London, obviously having decided that I wanted to relive my youth! However, 3½ years of commuting for more than 3 hours each day soon put paid to that and I was overjoyed to see the advertisement for the job of Issues Manager/Liaison Team Leader with the new RAF Families Federation at Wittering. The rest, as they say, is history and I’m now enjoying going out to the units, meeting and talking to RAF families to find out what their current issues and concerns are.

In my spare time I enjoy reading, photography and thinking up imaginative new reasons not to go to the gym!

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