Executive Support Manager

The Role

We are recruiting an experienced Executive Support Manager to provide high-level strategic and administrative support to a senior leadership team within a London local authority. You will act as a trusted partner to an Executive Director, manage two Executive Support Officers, and help ensure the directorate is organised, well-briefed, and focused on its priorities.

• Provide proactive, high-quality support and advice to an Executive Director.
• Line manage and develop two Executive Support Officers.
• Manage diaries, workloads, meetings, reports, briefings and forward plans.
• Draft clear communications for senior officers, councillors, partners, staff and residents.
• Coordinate cross-directorate information, committee reporting and follow-up actions.
• Lead or support multidisciplinary projects and monitor delivery against deadlines.
• Oversee responses to council questions, complaints, casework, member enquiries and Freedom of Information requests.
• Build effective relationships with elected members, senior leaders, public-sector partners and community stakeholders.

• Proven experience supporting executive directors, senior leadership teams or comparable senior stakeholders.
• Strong line-management, organisation and prioritisation skills.
• Excellent written communication, with experience producing reports, briefings and formal correspondence.
• Confidence handling complex and sensitive information with discretion.
• Ability to coordinate competing deadlines and follow actions through to completion.
• Strong relationship-building skills across multidisciplinary and external stakeholder groups.
• Local government or wider public-sector experience is highly desirable.

• Competitive rate of £33.92 per hour through an Umbrella company.
• High-profile assignment supporting senior local-government leadership.
• Hybrid working with three office days per week.
• Opportunity to lead a small executive support team and influence directorate delivery.

Submit your CV as soon as possible, clearly demonstrating your senior executive support, line-management and public-sector experience. Early applications are encouraged due to the proposed start date.

DBHRSolutions is acting as the employment agency for this vacancy. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.