Job Details
Barnsley council Executive Management Support Officer to provide a comprehensive, co-ordinated and efficient secretarial service, enabling executive management to fulfil their role effectively in the context of a highly-pressurised working environment.
- Undertake general business support including word processing, photocopying, filing, emailing and
dealing with mail.
• Produce high quality documentation including letters, reports, graphical documents etc., utilising
appropriate Microsoft packages using advanced functionality such as mailmerge, charts, graphs.
• Establish, use and maintain appropriate office systems, ensuring that information is accurate and
stored with regards to the confidential nature of the post.
• Undertake diary management, arranging meetings and appointments as well as ensuring the
organising, prioritising and tracking of workloads.
• Service meetings, preparing relevant documentation and ensure that outcomes are recorded and
actioned.
• Deal with telephone and face to face enquiries, providing advice, guidance and information as
appropriate, assisting other officers and outside bodies as necessary to resolve issues.
• Undertake research and project work which may vary widely in complexity and detail as required.
• Liaise, negotiate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including politicians,
government departments and other senior executives.
• Where appropriate, take ownership of specific issues within the service, co-ordinating and monitoring
milestones through to resolution.
• Undertake research on Council related policy and general issues as directed, preparing reports and
analyses of issues as necessary.
• Maintain an awareness of and monitor developments in relation to live issues and key policies in
relation to the service to enable workloads to be prioritised. - hybrid role!
£18.90 umbrella
