Private Secretary

As the Private Secretary to the Director for Construction, Infrastructure and Energy, you will play a pivotal role in the running of the Directorate and in ensuring the director makes effective decisions by:Understanding, articulating and helping to drive forward the Directors priorities; by providing high quality advice backed up by accurate and perceptive insights.Having portfolio responsibility for some of the directorates teams; this will involve being the teams first point of contact for advice on behalf of the Director.Managing the Directors inbox with regards to meeting requests; reviewing emails to identify priorities and actioning requests that come in, escalation and commissioning briefing on key issues and prioritising incoming mail to ensure key deadlines are met.Forward planning to ensure all briefing and papers are closely managed, identifying and commissioning information/briefings as required.Managing the Directors diary, travel and logistics, helping to make sure the directors time is maximised effectively and that appropriate travel arrangements are made.Chairing the Directorate All Staff weekly call to ensure that the directorate is kept informed of key issues.Undertake specific projects and research and analysis on behalf of the Director, including presenting findings in papers, reports and PowerPoint presentations.