Private Secretary - Ministerial Private Office
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Medi 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | £44,500 i £48,243 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Medi 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | London |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 367966/1 |
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The Private Secretary will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the office and supporting the Minister in her wider duties, including representing Cabinet Office business in the House of Commons, and supporting the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and wider Cabinet Office Ministerial team as necessary.
The portfolios in this Private Office are flexible and may be subject to change depending on requirements across the team. This role is entitled to private office allowance as compensation for sometimes long and unsociable hours, including occasional weekend working.
What will the successful candidate be doing?
This role will require you to act as the critical bridge between the Minister and Senior Civil Servants and policy experts, the rest of the department, and its partners. You will be expected to lead on key areas of the Minister’s portfolio, being the primary point of contact for the department and providing robust advice to the Minister.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Head of Office to lead the Minister’s Private Office and ensure effective processes support the day-to-day operation of the team. You may be asked to deputise for the Head of Office, as necessary.
- Drive forward the Minister’s priorities, ensuring these are communicated effectively to the rest of the department with timely and high quality advice, and using your influence where needed to provide steers on ministerial preferences
- Setting strategic direction for the minister across her wide portfolio
- Provide an effective channel of communication for Ministers within the department, with the rest of Whitehall, with stakeholders and with the public.
- Use your relationships, judgement and understanding of the wider context to support Ministers in their work and to add value to the process and substance of decision making
- Identify the main issues in complex problems, clarify understanding or stakeholder expectations, to provide the best advice to the Minister
- Apply your understanding and interpretation of the broader political context to your work, collaborating closely with special advisers to ensure political issues are taken into account – providing balanced and impartial advice as per the civil service code at all times
- Support the work of the Minister in Parliament, such as for oral questions, debates and speeches
- Provide any other support required, including strategic oversight of the Minister’s diary and any logistical support in the exercise of her government duties