Lead Secretariat

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

- 377886**Salary**:

- £33,787- The salary for this role is £37,170 (London) or £33,787 (National).- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Group: Strategy and Communications Directorate: Policy Unit and Private Office**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, London, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are recruiting for an outstanding HEO Lead Secretariat - Executive Team and Central Operations to join the Governance and Central Secretariat Unit, in the Executive Team and Central Operations division. In this role you will be responsible for at least two of the department’s key executive governance committees, with significant access to senior staff and an overview of corporate governance across MHCLG.

**Job description**:
**Executive Team & People Lead**

In this role you will be responsible for the operation of the department’s Executive Team and People and Operations Sub-Committee. You will lead on supporting these committees to make decisions about the department’s key policy, people and delivery priorities. You will also be responsible for both of the department’s shadow committees - that provide staff at delegated grades the opportunity to scrutinise and feedback on the decision making of these forums.

**Delivery & Finance Lead**

In this role you will be responsible for the operation of the department’s Delivery and Finance Sub-Committees, as well as the Executive Team’s quarterly stocktake process. You will lead on the governance of the department’s approach to fiscal events, such as spending reviews, and the business planning process.

**Person specification**:

- To be successful in this role, you will need excellent interpersonal and writing skills, a good eye for detail, a flexible approach and excellent IT skills. You will also need a strong track record in providing high quality administrative support, including minuting senior meetings, be highly organised, have the confidence to work with senior stakeholders and act calmly under pressure.**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £33,787, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £9,788 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 with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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**Selection process details**:
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**At sift, we will be assessing**

Behaviour (Lead Behaviour): Delivering at Pace - Discuss a time where you had to manage competing priorities to successfully deliver a task.

Behaviour: Seeing the Big Picture

Behaviour: Making Effective Decisions

There is a 250 word limit per question.

**The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements**:
Behaviours: Delivering at Pace, Seeing the Big Picture, Making Effective Decisions

Strengths: Yes

**In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements**:
Behaviours: Delivering at Pace, Seeing the Big Picture, Making Effective Decisions

Strengths: Yes

**HEO salary**
- ** The salary for this role is **£37,170 (London) or £33,787 (National).**

**BENEFITS**:
**Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018**:
**GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION**:

- London
- Darlington*
- Wolverhampton
- Manchester
- Bristol
- Leeds
- **Please note**:The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people