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Job Title: Leadership Support Manager
Job Location: Greater London, DA6 7AT
Working Hours: 36 hours per week
Job Type: Hybrid 3 days in per week in office other days are flexible. (4 Month Contract)
Job Description
Purpose of the job
To enable the Chief Executive and CLT to deliver organisational objectives through Members, partners, CLT and the workforce, by working on behalf of the CE to enable best use of their time, and to deliver effective EA support to all of CLT and ELT.
Person Specification:
- Preferably educated to degree level (or similar)
- Experience of providing executive assistance to senior executives
- Experience of working with members/ politicians and officers at all levels within an organisation
- Experience of working in a local or central government setting
- Advanced use of MS office
- Understanding of emerging technologies (such as AI) and their potential for improving executive support
- Experience of team management
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- Ability to deliver a high quality service to customers, with a strong focus on continuous improvement
- Ability to deliver at pace under time pressure, both individually and across a team
- Proactive and able to take accountability for solving problems
- Good political nous, with the ability to pick up the nuanced political environment quickly
- Reliable and discrete, with a thorough understanding of confidentiality issues
- Excellent written communication skills, able to draft quickly, pulling together information on a range of areas
- Excellent analytical skills, able to digest a range of information quickly to brief the HOS or Chief Executive.
