Job Description

Job title: Democratic Services Manager
Contract: 4 months with possible extension
Hours: 35 hours a week
Pay: £17.02
Location: Bootle

Job summary:
To manage the workload and performance of a small team of staff and provide a high quality service to elected member and department continually striving to modernise the service

Duties:
- Attend and Minute Authority and Committee meetings and ensure that sufficient arrangements for Members, Officers any public attendance and/or any presentations to be provided are taken into account
- Ensuring that Authority papers and Agendas drafted by Officers are dispatched within statutory timescales under the direction of the Monitoring Officer
- Arrange and provide support and training to Officers
- Arrange Member training and other events and support the Member Development Group
- Arrange conference attendance and travel for Members
- Ensure that appropriate records are maintained of all Member attendance at meetings and events
- Management of Budget for the Team`s cost centre
- Day to day Management of the Deputy Democratic Services Manager, to ensure that work of the team and the department runs smoothly
- Ensuring administrative tasks are carried out efficiently and effectively to the satisfaction of other Departmental Managers
- Assist the Monitoring Officer and Deputy in reviewing the Authority Constitution as required
- Deal with any other matters relating to the work of Democratic Services or departmental administration.

ID necessary:
- In date British passport or full birth certificate paired with provisional or driving license
- 2x proof of address (bank statement, council tax, utility bill)
- Proof of NI (NI card, HMRC letter, P45)

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