Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet

The Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet, or Cabinet Secretary for short, was a nonpartisan office of the Royal Civil Service within the Office of the Seneschal.

It was estabilished by Prime Minister Miestrâ Schivâ on July 29th 2019/XL. Lüc da Schir was appointed as the first and only Cabinet Secretary on August 1st, and resigned upon renouncing Talossan citizenship the following June.

No new Cabinet Secretary was appointed, with the technical parts of the job being handed over to a newly created Permanent Secretary for Webmonkey Business and NUMBSkullery, and then to a Permanent Secretary of Backend Admin.

Duties

• Ensuring a smooth transition of power (especially credentials, updating Cabinet emails), whenever the membership of the Cabinet changes;
• Being in charge of Cabinet media of communication, like the forum, along with the Seneschál, especially regarding backups;
• Acting as a recruiter for Cabinet and junior positions;
• Acting as an impartial arbiter for the Code of Conduct, whenever necessary;
• Whatever Cabinet-related administrative task the Seneschál of the day requires.
• Api dàl Telaragnha: responsible for all "back-end" maintenance of the national Internet presence as described in El Lexhatx 2.10.3-2.10.6 (in cooperation with the Ministry of STUFF);
• Wittmeister: responsible for all "back-end" maintenance of Wittenberg as described in El Lexhatx J (in conjunction with the Chancery);
• Holding current passwords to all official Talossan social media accounts.