Executive Assistant
The principal responsibility of the Executive Assistant is to provide key organisational and business support to a dedicated member of the Force Executive, managing the daily activity and delivery of the Executive’s portfolio commitments and responsibilities.
In particular to:
• Providing high level, critical professional and effective personal support to a dedicated member of the operational and non-operational Force Executive.
• Manage the daily activity and delivery of the Executive’s portfolio responsibilities, to include constant prioritisation of workload and risk.
• Acting as an internal and external gateway into the Executive, assessing and adding value to strategy and business plans from the NPCC, OPCC and partners.
• Working with stakeholders to deliver the Force, regional and national responsibilities of the principal and contributing to the work of their portfolio.
• Working in an agile manner with minimal supervision within a team environment, the role manages the daily activity and delivery of the Executive’s portfolio responsibilities and commitments making unanimous and unilateral decisions.
• Providing critical incident cover, when necessary, to meet the dynamic requirements of the Executive.
• Maintaining the reputation of the Force and the Executive and safeguarding the identity and management of corporate risks by the Executive and business.
• Managing bespoke Force level portfolios and co-ordinating project activity.
• Prioritising and filtering information from a variety of sources, deciding on how that information will be actioned and progressed.
• Plan, organise and manage Force, regional and national level meetings, conferences and National Police Chiefs’ Council portfolio led meetings, internally and remotely, to deliver the respective agendas.
• Providing and creating clear and concise briefings prior to meetings, as well as more complex and bespoke correspondence, whilst maintaining the appropriate level of security and sensitivity of the material.
This list of duties is not restrictive or exhaustive and the post-holder may be required to carry out duties from time to time that are either commensurate with/or lower than the grade of the post. In some posts this might include the ad-hoc provision of guidance and informal training of new colleagues.