Executive Support Manager

The Role

We are recruiting an experienced Executive Support Manager to provide high-level strategic and administrative support to a senior leadership team within a London local authority. You will act as a trusted partner to an Executive Director, manage two Executive Support Officers, and help ensure the directorate is organised, well-briefed, and focused on its priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide proactive, high-quality support and advice to an Executive Director.
• Line manage and develop two Executive Support Officers.
• Manage diaries, workloads, meetings, reports, briefings and forward plans.
• Draft clear communications for senior officers, councillors, partners, staff and residents.
• Coordinate cross-directorate information, committee reporting and follow-up actions.
• Lead or support multidisciplinary projects and monitor delivery against deadlines.
• Oversee responses to council questions, complaints, casework, member enquiries and Freedom of Information requests.
• Build effective relationships with elected members, senior leaders, public-sector partners and community stakeholders.

About You

• Proven experience supporting executive directors, senior leadership teams or comparable senior stakeholders.
• Strong line-management, organisation and prioritisation skills.
• Excellent written communication, with experience producing reports, briefings and formal correspondence.
• Confidence handling complex and sensitive information with discretion.
• Ability to coordinate competing deadlines and follow actions through to completion.
• Strong relationship-building skills across multidisciplinary and external stakeholder groups.
• Local government or wider public-sector experience is highly desirable.

Why Apply?

• Competitive rate of £33.92 per hour through an Umbrella company.
• High-profile assignment supporting senior local-government leadership.
• Hybrid working with three office days per week.
• Opportunity to lead a small executive support team and influence directorate delivery.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

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