Executive Support Manager

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Job description

Executive Support Manager

Reference number: SC06942

Location: London

Schedule: Full-time

Salary Range: £47,043 - £54,135

Contract Type: Permanent

The role

Are you ready to take the lead in a role that puts you at the heart of one of London's most dynamic boroughs?

What you'll do:

• As an Executive Support Manager, you'll be the driving force behind our informal governance process, ensuring that key board meetings run smoothly and efficiently.
• In this central role, you'll work side-by-side with the Chief Executive, Cabinet Members, and senior officers, managing complex schedules, providing project support, and serving as an essential point of contact for our leadership team.
• Your ability to navigate the fast-paced and sensitive environment of the council will be crucial in supporting the leaders who are shaping the future of Southwark.
• In our fast-paced, high-stakes environment, you'll provide first-class, efficient support that keeps the leadership team operating at their best.
• You'll oversee a range of administrative and office functions, ensuring the smooth operation using your attention to detail, organisational skills, and proactive approach.
• Handle confidential information with the utmost discretion and integrity.

How will you make an impact:

We need a dynamic and experienced Executive Support Manager who is passionate about public service and driven to make a difference who will bring a blend of the following:

• Executive Support with a track record of delivering high-quality outcomes for Senior Leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, you'll engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring positive outcomes for the Corporate Management Team Your expertise in Microsoft Office 365 will enable you to work seamlessly in our fully digital, agile workplace.
• Skilled in providing a performance-focused supporting role, implementing effective strategies, systems, and procedures to drive continuous improvement.
• You will be discrete and able to deal with sensitive and confidential information professionally, as well as a high degree of attention to detail.
• A focus on continuous improvement, have a growth mindset and a collaborative, can-do attitude.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, maintaining meticulous attention to detail while meeting deadlines.
• Enjoy a balanced approach with flexible home working, alongside travel to our London Bridge HQ.

Southwark Council is offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate and experienced Executive Support Manager to join our Executive Support Team, working closely with the Corporate Management Team (CMT).

Southwark is a borough that thrives on diversity, confidence, and ambition. With over 120 languages spoken and a young, multi-cultural population, we are committed to delivering a fairer future for all. As part of our team, you'll be at the centre of this vibrant community, helping to turn vision into reality.

About Southwark

As a council, we are successful, passionate, and forward thinking. We are committed to tackling injustice and inequalities and rebuilding our local economy following the pandemic, ensuring that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.

As a diverse central London borough, Southwark faces a range of challenges, which we aim to address through the delivery of the Borough Plan. We are looking for candidates to join our team to help us continue to make Southwark an inclusive borough for all our communities.

Southwark Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We monitor our recruitment practices to check that we are employing people in a fair and non-discriminatory way. We also publish annual workforce reports. We are proud to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough.

Benefits and more information

• Working for Southwark Council - Southwark

Recruitment timetable

• Application closing date: 11.59pm on the 13 October 2024.
• Interview date: 23 October 2024.

Application Process

If you are interested in applying for this role, please submit a CV and complete the application forms detailing your suitability for the role. The Job Description and Person Specification can also be found at the bottom of this page under attachments.

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian, and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, in which case we will move the key dates for the process. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Attachments

• Executive Support Manager JD May 2024.pdf

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