Jane has operated as a senior executive across multiple organisations in both the public and private sectors and has also run her own consultancy business. Much of her career was spent in policing, and she retired in 2019 from Surrey Police as an Assistant Chief Officer. Throughout her professional life, she has been responsible for all aspects of corporate management, including strategic planning and performance management, people services, business change and transformation, communications and marketing, and corporate governance and risk.

For the past ten years, Jane has served as a trustee and Vice Chair at Missing People, leading on policy and research, safeguarding, and HR. She is also a Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director at University Hospital Southampton, as well as a trustee and Chair of Governance for the Wooden Spoon charity.