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Salary: £40,652
Job Grade: Level 4, Zone 1
Work Location: Unit 1B, Berol House, 25 Ashley Road, London, N17 9LJ with opportunity for home/remote working
Hours per week: 36
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 26th February 23:59
Interviews to be held: TBC
Alternative flexible working options available/open to discussion

Employed by the London Borough of Camden the Executive Officer will be based in North London Waste Authority (NLWA), serving Camden and six other north London boroughs.

About the Role
We have fantastic opportunities for experienced Executive Officers to join the NLWA Corporate Services team in supporting the Managing Director, Director of Corporate Services and Programme Director to provide professional and excellent Executive support that enables them to focus on managing the strategic direction of the Authority.

As part of the support, you will be expected to take lead responsibility for ensuring the efficient smooth running of the Director’s daily operations, managing a busy schedule through effective diary management, and meeting planning, proactively ensuring the best use of time, ensuring strict deadlines and timescales are met and using knowledge and judgement to help the organisation achieve its priorities.

You will be required to represent and communicate on behalf of the Directors’ building productive working relationships both internally and externally.  Maintain political awareness, sensitivity, confidentiality and discretion to address these appropriately and ensure extremely high levels of customer service are delivered, ensuring that strong relations and coordination are maintained with constituent boroughs and wider organisations (eg the Greater London Authority, London Environment Directors Network).

The postholder will be expected advocate new ways of working and provide innovative and imaginative solutions to support to the Directors’. This could include the adoption and trialling of the use of technology. You will collaborate with and support the wider organisation with administrative and project support.

About You
Are you experienced and looking for a role with development opportunities?  Are you looking for your next challenge? Key duties of the role will include:

Excellent organisation skills and the ability to effectively multi-task and respond to the changing priorities of the Directors’.

High levels of initiative in the initiation of activity and commissioning of work to others and the ability to follow through actions to ensure that progress is made, and that others keep to deadlines.
Strong literacy and numeracy skills and the ability to research and analyse information and produce high quality reports, presentations and briefings in a meaningful format.

Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and the ability to quickly learn and adapt to changing use of IT to support changes in ways of working, such as the use of desk top publishing software and the ability and experience to tailor / establish PowerPoint presentations on behalf of the Directors’

Ability to communicate effectively, negotiating and influencing with a wide range of stakeholders, whilst showing a high level of diplomacy and confidentiality in the provision of excellent customer care.  Adapt style according to the audience and the needs of others.

Ability to work flexibly, balancing competing priorities of self and others, to ensure that deadlines are met whilst understanding the needs, timescales and deadlines of others, enabling the delivery of organisational objectives. This will mean the ability to work under pressure, whilst maintaining strong attention to detail, and proactively use own initiative to make informed decisions and considered judgements.

Ability to work as part of a team including experience of working directly with senior officers in a support capacity and manage the workflow to ensure that all aspects of work are managed with considerable attention to detail. In addition to, experience of working with multiple stakeholders, including elected Members / politicians and other senior officials.

Facilitation and coordination of new starter induction as directed, which will include collating information, venue arrangements and managing RSVPs. Be flexible on dealing with a range of activities at work with a “can-do” attitude.

For more information regarding this role please refer to the job profile.

About NLWA
North London Waste Authority serves 2 million residents in the boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest.  We manage about a quarter of all the rubbish and recycling in London and run programmes to help residents and businesses reduce their waste and recycle more.

Our mission is to preserve resources and the environment for future generations and make sure that waste is disposed of in an environmentally responsible way.

North London Heat and Power Project is the Authority’s £1.2 billion project to provide new infrastructure on the Edmonton EcoPark, including a new Energy Recovery Facility.  The project will ensure environmentally sound waste management for the forseeable future in north London. Our vision is to create a waste management facility in which local communities can take pride, that demonstrated value and is a model for public sector project delivery.

The Authority’s website is nlwa.gov.uk, and we have a specific website northlondonheatandpower.london for the North London Heat and Power Project

Working for NLWA
The post-holder will work for NLWA and be based at NLWA’s office in Tottenham Hale but be employed by London Borough of Camden through whom NLWA staff are employed. The North London Heat and Power Project is located at Edmonton EcoPark.

Working for Camden
We’re ready to welcome your ideas, your views, and your rebellious spirit. Help us redefine our corporate services, and we’ll redefine what a career can be. If that sounds good to you, we’d love to talk

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits as well as joining a flexible working employer. Click HERE to see full details of our benefits.

Additional information
To view the Job Profile, please click HERE

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application you will be required to demonstrate how you meet the role criteria noted in the Job Profile under the “About You” section.

Inclusion and Diversity  
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit our recruitment website

Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact Bernadette Daley at Bernadette.daley@nlwa.gov.uk