Jaiteh served as Deputy State Secretary in The Gambia's Department of Finance and Economic Affairs in 2003, and as Secretary General of the Civil Service from 2008 to 2009, replacing
Ousman Jammeh in the post. On 29 May 2009, Jaiteh was appointed Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources by President
Yahya Jammeh. She was later appointed Minister of Energy, She became one of nearly 200 cabinet ministers and government officials to be hired and fired by Jammeh since he came to power in a
1994 coup. She was reinstated three days later. In January 2015, Jaiteh was appointed as Gambia's ambassador to the
European Union, based in Brussels also covering
Germany,
Poland,
Netherlands,
Luxembourg,
Slovakia and the
Czech Republic as well as the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the
Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the
International Criminal Court and the
World Trade Organization. sending a joint congratulatory letter to Barrow. In response, Jammeh's new
Information Minister, Seedy Njie said in January 2017 that the twelve ambassadors had been fired. ==References==