Senior Executive Assistant

North Northamptonshire Council; England; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking a Senior Executive Assistant to provide key support to its Corporate Leadership Team. This position entails managing critical correspondence, coordinating executive responsibilities, and contributing to project development. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience and demonstrate effective communication and organizational skills within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Significant pension contribution

28 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days

Hybrid and flexible working arrangements

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in executive support or managerial roles.
• Confident, discreet and able to work under pressure.
• Competent in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive support to a member of the Corporate Leadership Team.
• Manage and filter correspondence to the Executive Director.
• Prepare agendas, attend meetings, and draft minutes.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Confidentiality

Time Management

Education

Level 3 qualification in Business Admin or equivalent

RSA / OCR / BTEC qualifications

Job description

About The Role

For internal candidates - This opportunity is offered as a secondment. Please ensure you have discussed and obtained agreement from your current line manager before submitting your application.

The council's Senior Executive Assistants play a vital role in providing executive support to the council's Corporate Leadership Team. As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will provide executive support to one of the council’s corporate leadership team members. You will also coordinate the executive support provided to the wider Corporate Leadership Network including Assistant Directors.

As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will be experienced, confident, discreet and able to work under significant pressure. You will need to be able to work under minimal supervision, working alone and as part of an extended team.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

Attached documents

• Senior Executive Assistant Job Description 2025.pdf
  
  

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