We are looking for an Executive Support Officer to provide outstanding administrative and executive support to the Chief Executive.

This includes: extensive diary and inbox management; taking accurate meeting notes; acting as a key interface between the Chief Executive and internal and external stakeholders; managing a small team of Executive Support Assistants and working collaboratively with the wider Executive Support Team.

The role involves a mixture of home and office-based working as needed.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

? Experience of managing and developing a team of staff.

? Experience of planning and organising workloads to achieve service objectives

and Group Directors’ expectations.

? Substantial experience of providing secretarial and high level administrative

support to a Chief Officer or Senior Manager.

? A comprehensive working knowledge of secretarial and administrative systems

applied within a large, diverse and dynamic organisation.

? Knowledge of the Public Sector and current policy issues affecting local

government.

? Experience of dealing with highly sensitive and confidential issues.

? Experience of working with a range of IT packages including Google (Gmail,

calendar, sheets, slides and docs) as well as the Microsoft Office suite (Word,

Excel, PowerPoint).

? Understanding of equalities and diversity in the workplace and its implementation

in policies, practices and procedures.

? Experience of dealing with elected representatives

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