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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