Joni has worked within the Civil Service since 2005 and was formerly Head of the First Minister’s Questions Briefing Team, with other roles including as a Senior Policy Adviser to the First Minister and Private Secretary to the former Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Alex Neil MSP. She holds an extensive Communications background, previously working as a broadcast journalist and subsequently working across various communications team prior to becoming Head of Communications for the then Deputy First Minister and Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon MSP in 2012.