Senior Executive Assistant

About the role

This is a rare opportunity to take on a pivotal role directly supporting the Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire County Council.

As a trusted and discrete individual, you will thrive on problem solving as well as managing competing priorities and keeping a cool head under pressure. Exemplary organisational skills, time management, and well-developed attention to detail are crucial for this role, supporting the Chief Executive to effectively lead the Council’s officer and employees to deliver the Council’s vision, ambition, and priorities.

A conscientious, analytical thinker who has a positive, proactive outlook, and can build strong and collaborative working relationships internally and externally, you’ll have the curiosity and opportunity to support projects and work across the breadth of the Council as well as regular but equally critical aspects of the role.  This will include diary management and planning, organising appointments and travel, managing email accounts and other communications, supporting key meetings and, occasionally, supporting the Chief Executive at regional or national events.

About you

You’ll need to be a highly accomplished and capable Executive Assistant, with Board level experience, ideally within the Public Sector and will be professional, well organised and able to use your initiative to act on issues. You’ll be confident as an ambassador for the Chief Executive and as the primary point of contact for a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.  Importantly you’ll pride yourself on your communication and customer service skills.

This is a hugely varied role and will give you an insight into and a strong sense of the valuable work carried out every day to deliver on the Council’s ambitions.   So, if you have proven experience, values, and commitment to making a difference every day that we do, then we would love to hear from you. 

If you would like to discuss the opportunity, please contact Stephanie Knight, Strategic Adviser to the Chief Executive and Leader of the Council on 07393 146972.

First stage interviews will be held on Thursday 18th July 2024. Successful candidates will be invited to a second stage interview held on Wednesday 24th July 2024.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• Senior Executive Assistant to the CEx June 2024.pdf