Diary Manager to the Strategy Director
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
The Strategy Directorate is a central function bringing together Private Office, Parliamentary and legislative affairs, sponsorship of inquiries, arm’s length bodies and entities, delivery oversight, policy development and strategy.
This is a unique opportunity to support a senior leader on the Home Office Executive Committee and to see how the top of the Home Office operates.
This is also a unique opportunity for those who want to build a career in the Home Office and across Government, which will test your ability to work through others, make sound decisions and use your own judgement at pace.
You will be joining a fun and dynamic team in an exciting part of the Home Office, being close to Ministers and decisions made by the government, assisting the Strategy Director and her teams deliver the Government’s top priorities. The Strategy Director’s Office is made up of a team of 4 led by a Grade 6 Chief of Staff.
Key responsibilities:
- Strategic management of the Strategy Director’s diary to ensure their time is used effectively according to their priorities and there are no clashes. This includes leading the Director through a regular forward look of the diary and mapping future engagement activity based on key milestones.
- Working with Directorate teams and the Director’s office to ensure the Director has relevant briefing in a timely manner and booking travel and meeting rooms if required.
- Building relationships across the Home Office Executive Committee’s private offices - this may include colleagues in your immediate team and Directorate, other Ministerial Private Offices, senior officials’ Private Offices, key internal and external stakeholders, and other stakeholders as needed.
- Assisting the team corporate activities including supporting on recruitment, raising purchase orders, managing the Directorate virtual filing system and booking learning and development activity for the team.
- Providing technical support to Directorate colleagues on corporate processes, including standard HR, finance and travel booking processes.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, job-share is available.