Chief of Staff
Inside IR35
Hybrid, 3 days on site per week in London, Manchester or Bristol
6 months
We are looking for a Chief of Staff who will:
Act as an informed and trusted advisor to the Executive Director, providing clear and rapid analysis of key issues and strategies across the client. You will provide independent advice and challenge on most difficult and complex projects. You will be scanning across many interdependent workstreams piecing together disparate strands to spot and mitigate emergent issues and unblock them. You will also need to anticipate future events to ensure that the Executive Director is aware of key issues.
Manage the relationships with senior stakeholders, Ministers and industry. Proactively build relationships and networks with private office colleagues across government for key strategic relationships.
Support the Executive Director by managing their workload and driving their priorities. You will need to unblock and anticipate issues across government and within the department and ensure the Executive Director is positioned to act in the most impactful way.
Ensure the Executive Director is briefed clearly and regularly on their individual priorities
Supporting the Executive Director with the design and delivery of the vision for digital government and system reform.
Lead a high performing Private Office for the Executive Director. The office must ensure that the Executive Director’s time is allocated effectively to the most pressing issues by mitigating and escalating risks where required. You will commission briefings and sequence meetings to align to the Executive Director’s strategic objectives and deadlines.About you:
Experience in leading a high performing team that can operate at pace and within ambiguity
Ability to shape and influence strategy to ensure that organisational priorities are realised
Ability to digest a wide range of information at pace; turning this into clear advice for senior stakeholders, handling both quantitative and qualitative evidence to make decisions
Experience in improving the overall health / operating environment of an organisation through its people strategy
Have significant experience of building and maintaining effective relationships, using a variety of channels to get the best results. Have significant experience of working with multiple stakeholders across a large and diverse audience
Have strong negotiation skills and proven experience of managing senior stakeholders to deliver results
Quickly gain the confidence of the Executive Director, Chair and other senior stakeholders, and demonstrate your ability to deal with sensitive and confidential issues as they arise.If you are interested, apply here