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Board Secretary

Job details
Posting date: 21 February 2025
Salary: £42,848 per year
Additional salary information: London minimum: £47,052
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 11 March 2025
Location: Birmingham
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 390918/1

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Are you someone with high resilience and thrive working in a fast paced environment?

Would you like to develop your strategic planning capabilities and see how decisions are made at the highest level across a Government department?

Do you have experience of working in a Board Secretariat team?

If so, then we would love for you to apply!

The Board Secretariat Team sits within the Permanent Secretaries Private Office, supporting the Department for Transport (DfT) Board and its sub-committees to ensure that the Department is run effectively, manages risk, and delivers on its key objectives, so this a great opportunity to join a team that is in the unique position of overseeing the key decisions and discussions taking place at the highest level in the Department.

As such, the role is exciting and fast-paced, and you will work closely with senior officials including the Permanent Secretaries, Directors General, Non-Executive Board Members, and Directors across the whole of the DfT family to develop a good overview of the Department’s work and the challenges it faces.

You will work closely with two G7 Board Secretariat leads, two other SEO Board Secretaries and one EO Assistant Board Secretary to deliver an excellent service to the Department.

Responsibilities

Key accountabilities of the role include:

  • You will lead the delivery of a selection of the Department’s key Committee meetings, ensuring a robust and strategic forward plan is developed and delivered for these meetings.
  • You will work with the team to ensure actions logs are kept up to date and that teams are coming to Committees prepared and at the right time.
  • The post holder will be encouraged to continually improve, innovate and provide efficient and effective meetings, incorporating feedback from a wide range of stakeholders.
  • You will be required to lead on the quality assurance of Committee papers, and ensure that correct assurances have been sought, challenging paper authors where necessary.
  • You will provide support to the wider Board Secretariat Team, particularly the other Board Secretary's, who you would be expected to work closely with, and should be prepared to support other areas and other sub-committee meetings as required.

For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.

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