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About the Role

This role sits within the Democratic Services team and is central to the council's decision-making process, providing support to committees, councillors, and residents. You will collaborate with councillors and senior officers to ensure proper decision-making and accountability through scrutiny committees and residents. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute your experience, skills, and ideas to the political governance of the Council and positively impact residents' lives.

Responsibilities

Supporting committees and other council meetings
Preparing agendas, reports and minutes
Providing procedural advice to councillors and officers
Helping residents, partners and others access the democratic process
Developing briefings and advice on policy matters for councillors and senior leaders

Requirements

Experience supporting committees or governance processes
Strong planning and organisational skills
Experience of providing services to senior leaders (councillors and officers) in a fast paced, political environment with resilience in the face of contradicting priorities and demanding workload
Experience of writing high quality communications, including briefings, minutes and committee reports
Excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences
Good understanding of the context in which Waltham Forest Borough Council operates, including major issues facing local government, key stakeholders and relevant national policy context
Satisfactory employment references
This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.
Satisfactory declaration of interest
Fluent English speaking ability required for public-facing roles, demonstrating command of spoken English with confidence and accuracy sufficient for effective role performance.

Skills

Planning
Organisational skills
Writing high quality communications
Interpersonal skills
Presentational skills
Effective communication

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time
Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Internal Applicants Only

Salary/Compensations

PO2 £42,771 - £45,750

Benefits

The Council is a Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employer, committed to fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression, and diversity and recruitment.
Flexible working options may be considered.
Information on benefits available at https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

About the Company

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities.
Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

Equal Opportunity

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff.
The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.
We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.
The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting.
The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first.
This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme.