{"id":35362,"date":"2016-08-23T23:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=35362"},"modified":"2016-08-23T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:06:30","slug":"london-mayor-officially-seeking-night-czar-online-job-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/london-mayor-officially-seeking-night-czar-online-job-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"London Mayor Officially Seeking Night Czar With Online Job Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Never a dull moment in London Mayor&#8217;s Sadiq Khan&#8217;s relationship with the cities robust, yet fragile, nightlife industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First speaking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/fabric-london-closed-mayor-sadiq-khan-responds-to-djs-pleas-for-reopening-a7195026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in favor of fabric<\/a> and now seeking the city&#8217;s first ever <strong>&#8220;Night Czar,&#8221;<\/strong> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/about-us\/jobs-and-working-city-hall\/current-vacancies\/czar001-night-czar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online advert<\/a>. The advert was posted on London Assembly&#8217;s website and shows Khan&#8217;s willingness to follow up on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/new-london-mayor-appoint-citys-first-night-mayor\/\">campaign promise<\/a>. At the time, Khan referenced Amsterdam&#8217;s <strong>Nachtburgemeester<\/strong>, citing the need for a specific position in order to effectively deal with issues of nightlife.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"seealso\">See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/night-mayor-really-solution-londons-club-woes\/\">Is A Night Mayor Really The Solution To London\u2019s Club Woes?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In part, the advert describes the position as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Working with the Mayor, the Night Time Commission, local authorities, businesses, the Metropolitan Police Service, Transport For London and other agencies, the Night Czar will create a vision for London as 24-hour city and a roadmap showing how the vision will be realised. The Night Czar will have proven leadership ability, public profile and convening power, plus a thorough understanding of the night time economy and the ability to work in a political environment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be honest, a quick peruse through the ad yields a fairly desirable position. Although a one year contract, at \u00a335,000 annual salary for 2.5 days of work, I&#8217;m sure their will be no shortage of applications. Interviews start on September 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never a dull moment in London Mayor&#8217;s Sadiq Khan&#8217;s relationship with the cities robust, yet fragile, nightlife industry. First speaking out in favor of fabric and now seeking the city&#8217;s first ever &#8220;Night Czar,&#8221; via online advert. The advert was posted on London Assembly&#8217;s website and shows Khan&#8217;s willingness to follow up on his campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":35365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3972],"tags":[8000,11108,10072,11107,7768,9571],"class_list":["post-35362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-london","tag-job","tag-london-assembly","tag-nachtburgemeester","tag-night-czar","tag-night-mayor","tag-sadiq-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}