North Northamptonshire Council
Senior Executive Assistant - Internal Applicants Only
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What will you be doing?
As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will have a range of responsibilities including:
- Acting as primary support officer to one Executive Director and provide support, along with colleagues, to all members of the Corporate Leadership Team.
- Review and filter all correspondence to the Executive Director, exercising judgement based upon guidance received, directing correspondence as appropriate to the appropriate officers.
- Undertake research and project development work on behalf of CLT as required.
- Deal with Member and MP enquiries, and co-ordinate and draft responses to these enquiries, in conjunction with the relevant officers and corporate complaints team.
- Prepare agendas, attend meetings and draft minutes as requested.
- Manage the time commitments of CLT, based upon guidance received, in liaison with other CLT support staff, senior managers, other staff, Members and external organisations and individuals.
- Support colleagues in the Executive Support Team as demands allow/ dictate.
About You
You will have a recognised/ appropriate training for example: RSA (Royal Society of Arts) / OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA), BTEC (Business and Technology Education Council) or equivalent vocational qualifications and Level 3 qualification in Business Admin or equivalent experience.
You will be competent in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point and MS Teams
You will have demonstrable experience in an executive support/ managerial or complex customer services environment.
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Excellent verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate at all levels and have report writing skills will be essential.
You will have excellent time management skills and be able to manage your own workload and work deadlines.
An assertive and confident approach to your work will be essential as is the need to be discreet and work to the highest levels of confidentiality.
An understanding of financial management systems will be an advantage, as will experience of providing support at Executive Director level and experience of supervising others.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We Offer a Vibrant Working Environment With
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
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About Us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
- Customer-focused
- Respectful
- Efficient
- Supportive
- Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council
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