Job Description

One of my local authority clients are looking to recruit and EA on a temporray basis.

This is a minimum 6 months contract with possible further extension, working Hybrid.

Take lead responsibility for ensuring the smooth running of the Managing Director / Director of Corporate Services / Programme Director’s daily operations. Managing a busy schedule through effective diary management and meeting planning, proactively ensuring the best use of time; using knowledge and judgement to help the organisation achieve its priorities. By proactively planning ahead, ensure that time is available for organisational priorities.

Provide effective and efficient high level support in the management of correspondence, including inbox management, acting on emails as necessary and, using a high level of judgement, deciding on appropriate actions. Draft substantive responses on behalf of the Managing Director / Director of Corporate Services / Programme Director; ensuring that these are of a high quality and that the use of English is exemplary.

Work closely with the office of the Authority chair, chief executive (formally the Authority Clerk), board of LondonEnergy Ltd, Members’ offices and colleagues in the Authority. This is to ensure close coordination with relevant leaders on delivering the Authority’s responsibilities and ensuring that we are responsive to external demands.

Represent and communicate on behalf of the Managing Director / Director of Corporate Services / Programme Director – internally and externally. Maintain political awareness, sensitivity, confidentiality and discretion to address these appropriately and ensure extremely high levels of customer service are delivered. Proactively support the Managing Director / Director of Corporate Services / Programme Director in ensuring that strong relations and coordination are maintained with constituent boroughs and wider organisations (eg the Greater London Authority, London Environment Directors Network)

Coordinate planning for and follow up from Corporate Leadership Team meetings.

Proactively work with others across the organisation to request information, commission advice as needed and follow through to ensure they are delivered and are in an appropriate format.

On behalf of Managing Director / Director of Corporate Services / Programme Director the develop briefings and presentations. This will involve liaison with colleagues in the Authority team and development of an understanding of subject matter.

Advocate new ways of working and provide innovative and imaginative solutions to support to the Managing Director / Director of Corporate Services / Programme Director. This could include the adoption and trialling of the use of technology.

Carrying out business management duties such as dealing with purchase orders, administering daily variation reports (sickness / absence) and more

Supporting the wider organisation with any administrative / project support type activity