Department of Children’s Services

Strategic Director Office

Executive Support Manager (Children’s Services)

PO5/6 - £38,789 - £43,387 pa

1 x 37 hours per week

Established

Based at Margaret McMillan Tower

This is an excellent and exciting career opportunity working in a dynamic service. Reporting to the Strategic Director (Children’s Services) you will take the lead in providing a high quality, proactive, comprehensive and confidential Executive Support service to Children’s Departmental Management Team (DMT). This will include supporting service wide & corporate initiatives & programmes, which are focussed on improving services provided by the Department on behalf of the Departmental Management Team.

You will take lead responsibility for ensuring all teams within Children’s Services are provided with appropriate support in order to ensure delivery of agreed projects, and maintain effective and efficient delivery of services, actively research/scan current issues (local and national) on behalf of DMT, with the ability to create and implement appropriate responses..

You will have day to day responsibility for leading, motivating & all aspects of management for the team providing  admin support to the Departmental Management Team.

You should be able to demonstrate a good knowledge and understanding of supporting corporate initiatives and preferably programmes relevant to Children’s Services e.g. external inspections support such as Ofsted, service planning etc.

You should be educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate 5 years equivalent experience working at a senior/supervisory level within a large organisation.

If you wish to discuss this post in more detail, you may contact Jenny Cryer, Assistant Director, on either 07582 103747 or email jenny.cryer@bradford.gov.uk   Alternatively, you can arrange for a discussion with Michael Jameson (Strategic Director – Children’s Services) via Heidi Hardy, by calling Bradford 01274 431266 or by email heidi.hardy@bradford.gov.uk

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Services will be undertaken for this post.

Closing date: 25th July 2016

Please see Job Profile:  Executive Support Manager:JP.pdf