National AI Awards 2025Discover AI's trailblazers! Join us to celebrate innovation and nominate industry leaders.

Nominate & Attend

Executive Support Officer

Campden
6 days ago
Create job alert

Executive Support Officer

Location: Kensington Town Hall, W8 7NX

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Duration: 2+ Months

Working Hours: Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 17:00, 37 Hours per week

Pay Rate: £ 25.37 per hour 

Job Ref: (phone number removed)

Responsibilities

Provide executive support to the Executive Director and Directors within the Environment and Neighbourhoods Directorate.

Manage Directors’ calendars and email inboxes, arrange and attend meetings, take minutes, and follow up on agreed actions.

Help Directors meet their workload and requests, highlight urgent priorities, and ensure they are well prepared for meetings and engagements.

Coordinate corporate, directorate, and departmental tasks and requests on behalf of DMT and Directors in business planning, performance management, risk management, and more.

Arrange and provide secretariat support to meetings, ensuring actions are tracked and followed up.

Prepare and circulate meeting agendas and paperwork as necessary.

Manage diary and associated documentation, prioritizing urgency of incoming work and requests.

Draft notes, letters, reports, presentations, and other documents accurately and timely.

Manage telephone calls and emails, resolving queries as appropriate.

Carry out small scale projects and tasks as requested by the E&N Hub and the Executive Director/Director.

Liaise with colleagues across the E&N Directorate and Council.

Ensure correspondence is answered in accordance with corporate targets and in plain English reflecting RBKC Values.

Work with Heads of Services to manage complaints and FOIs to meet corporate deadlines and standards.

Communicate with residents and businesses, ensuring RBKC values are transmitted through all customer interaction.

Ensure Key Decision Reports are added to the forward plan within deadlines and remind officers about deadlines.

Help Directors produce Service Plans, risk management plans, and other key documents.

Organize the completion of relevant dashboards and templates.

Ensure effective scheduling and preparation of lead member briefings and related documentation.

Provide Microsoft Office support and ensure its applications are fully utilized and adopted.

Review and oversee the maintenance of electronic information and shared folders, ensuring easy access and archiving management information and files.

Maximize the use of the Council’s office-based and mobile IT services for information input, access, and transmission.

Comply with information rights legislation and the Council’s data quality standards.

Report instances of non-compliance, errors, omissions, or inadequacies in procedures to the business unit manager.

Adhere to the Council’s equal opportunities policy and equalities legislation and implement them in employment and service delivery.

Take reasonable care for personal health and safety and that of others affected by acts or omissions at work.

Person Specification

Effectively oversee and proactively support senior managers’ offices in achieving their objectives.

Establish and sustain robust professional relationships with senior executives.

Proficient computer skills and experience with the complete suite of Microsoft applications.

Proven organizational abilities in multitasking, showing initiative, solving problems, working independently, and prioritizing tasks.

Ability to work as part of a team and help others.

Outstanding interpersonal and networking abilities, capable of building strong professional relationships.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas and present complex information clearly and simply.

Good negotiating skills, able to deal with situations of conflicting demands and needs.

Experience in managing and completing complex tasks and projects.

Effort that exceeds expectations of managers.

DISCLAIMER: By applying for this vacancy, you consent to your personal information being shared with our client and any relevant third parties we engage with, for the purpose of assessing your suitability for the role. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to inform i-Jobs in advance if there are any specific organisations or hirers to whom you do not wish your details to be disclosed.              

About this facility

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Director of Legal and Governance; Maternity Cover

Group Financial Reporting Manager

Sales Executive

Event Coordinator, EA, Executive Administrator

Quantitative Developer

Data Quality Executive and Client Services Assistant

National AI Awards 2025

Subscribe to Future Tech Insights for the latest jobs & insights, direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

How to Present Data Science Solutions to Non-Technical Audiences: A Public Speaking Guide for Job Seekers

The ability to communicate clearly is now just as important as knowing how to build a predictive model or fine-tune a neural network. In fact, many UK data science job interviews are now designed to test your ability to explain your work to non-technical audiences—not just your technical competence. Whether you’re applying for your first data science role or moving into a lead or consultancy position, this guide will show you how to structure your presentation, simplify technical content, design effective visuals, and confidently answer stakeholder questions.

Data Science Jobs UK 2025: 50 Companies Hiring Now

Bookmark this guide—refreshed every quarter—so you always know who’s really expanding their data‑science teams. Budgets for predictive analytics, GenAI pilots & real‑time decision engines keep climbing in 2025. The UK’s National AI Strategy, tax relief for R&D & a sharp rise in cloud adoption mean employers need applied scientists, ML engineers, experiment designers, causal‑inference specialists & analytics leaders—right now. Below you’ll find 50 organisations that have advertised UK‑based data‑science vacancies or announced head‑count growth during the past eight weeks. They’re grouped into five quick‑scan categories so you can jump straight to the kind of employer—& culture—that suits you. For every company you’ll see: Main UK hub Example live or recent vacancy Why it’s worth a look (tech stack, mission, culture) Search any employer on DataScience‑Jobs.co.uk to view current ads, or set up a free alert so fresh openings land straight in your inbox.

Return-to-Work Pathways: Relaunch Your Data Science Career with Returnships, Flexible & Hybrid Roles

Returning to work after an extended break can feel like stepping into a whole new world—especially in a dynamic field like data science. Whether you paused your career for parenting, caring responsibilities or another life chapter, the UK’s data science sector now offers a variety of return-to-work pathways. From structured returnships to flexible and hybrid roles, these programmes recognise the transferable skills and resilience you’ve gained and provide mentorship, upskilling and supportive networks to ease your transition back. In this guide, you’ll discover how to: Understand the current demand for data science talent in the UK Leverage your organisational, communication and analytical skills in data science roles Overcome common re-entry challenges with practical solutions Refresh your technical knowledge through targeted learning Access returnship and re-entry programmes tailored to data science Find roles that fit around family commitments—whether flexible, hybrid or full-time Balance your career relaunch with caring responsibilities Master applications, interviews and networking specific to data science Learn from inspiring returner success stories Get answers to common questions in our FAQ section Whether you aim to return as a data analyst, machine learning engineer, data visualisation specialist or data science manager, this article will map out the steps and resources you need to reignite your data science career.