Private Secretary

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Cabinet Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 321780**Salary**:

- £35,400 - £39,200- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CO - Office of Government Property**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Birmingham, Glasgow, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Office of Government Property (OGP) is a business unit of the Cabinet Office, leading the Government Property Function, setting strategy and delivery standards for multiple Government-wide programmes, and leading the Property Profession of 7,000 professionals across Government.

The Private Office team is a small but impactful team that provides support to the Senior Exec to ensure the delivery of the strategy and the ambitions within it. At the most basic level, this means ensuring the DG and Director have the right papers and briefings for the engagement they are carrying out. But it also involves significant stakeholder management, acting as a check on demands for the DG/Director's time and providing quality assurance.

**Job description**:
**Responsibilities**
- Supporting the DG and Director as senior civil servants within the Cabinet Office and leaders of the Function;
- Coordinating, writing and quality assuring briefings, clearance of papers, preparing of agendas, taking minutes of meetings, highlighting and management of emerging issues;
- Ensuring the DG and Director are well prepared and briefed for meetings and speaking events;
- Day-to-day coordination on diary matters with the EA/Diary Manager;
- Working closely with Senior Leadership Team to understand priorities and issues, collating papers, and engaging with key stakeholders both internally and externally;
- Tracking and progressing all actions commissioned by the DG and Director to wider teams;
- Forging effective networks and relationships across the Department and the wider Civil Service.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Essential skills
- Collaborative approach with strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to develop positive working relationships
- Ability to prioritise work effectively and adapt rapidly to changing priorities or needs
- Ability to maintain a calm, collaborative working style in a fast paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

**Desirable skills**
- Competent in using Google for drafting and collaboration
- Secretariat experience of providing high-quality meeting support and taking the lead in setting agendas, taking minutes and agreeing follow-up actions
- Ability to understand wider connections and relationships and recognise how these should be utilised/managed in different contexts

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £35,400, Cabinet Office contributes £9,558 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**Application and selection process**

Interview dates - WC 04/12/023

Interview Location - Online

**Reasonable adjustments**

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

**Further information**

Please note that this role requires CTC clearance, which would normally need 3 years’ UK residency in the past 3 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of

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