Chief Election Officer

2 weeks ago

East Sheen, Greater London, United Kingdom Greater London Authority Full time

About the Role


London Elects is the Greater London Authority team responsible for organizing the election of the Mayor of London, the 14 Constituency London Assembly Members, and the 11 London-wide Assembly Members every four years.


As the Chief Election Officer, you will be responsible for ensuring that mayoral and assembly candidates are supported through the nominations process, that boroughs have the necessary support on polling day, and that accurate, timely election results are delivered within the performance framework required by the Electoral Commission.


This post is a fixed-term position and is available as a secondment or a job-share.


Key Responsibilities:



  • Lead the development, management, monitoring, and delivery of the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections (and/or any by-election), managing budgets and leading staff allocated directly to the London Elects team or through matrix working.
  • Provide efficient and effective management and delivery of the election in accordance with legislation and best practice.
  • Develop and maintain arrangements to achieve and demonstrate achievement of compliance with the Electoral Commission performance standards to ensure the effective delivery of the election.
  • Prepare and implement a project plan and detailed workstream programme to ensure compliance with the statutory delivery of the election, monitoring strategies, and oversee delivery of work arising from this, ensuring that milestone targets are met and remedial actions are implemented for any problems identified.
  • Maintain an awareness of legislative and policy changes relating to elections.

Requirements:



  • Experience in managing large multi-million pound programmes and/or projects in a public sector organization.
  • An excellent understanding of election management, or evidence of quickly being able to build up expertise in a new and complex policy area.
  • Level 3 indicators of effective performance:

    • Building and Managing Relationships:

      • Adapts style to work effectively with partners, building consensus, trust, and respect.
      • Is analyzing and interpreting situations from a variety of viewpoints and finding creative, workable, and timely solutions.

    • Planning and Organising:

      • Thinks ahead, manages time, priorities, and risk, and develops structured and efficient approaches to deliver work on time and to a high standard.
      • Ensures evaluation processes are in place to measure project benefits.
      • Gains buy-in and commitment to project delivery from diverse stakeholders.
      • Implements quality measures to ensure directorate output is of a high standard.
      • Is forming sound, evidence-based judgments, making choices, assessing risks to delivery, and taking accountability for results.


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