Locum Democratic Services Officer

Venn Group; Mid Sussex; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Locum Democratic Services Officer – South West – 6 Months Initial – Hybrid Working

Vacancy Ref: 88596

Our client, a South West-based Local Authority, is recruiting for a Democratic Services Officer to join their team on an interim basis. Please see details below:

Location: Hybrid working

Duration: 6 months initial

Hours: Full-time

IR35: Inside

Duties and responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of the Council’s committee arrangements, ensuring that they are well structured and adapted to meet changing circumstances.
• To provide and maintain, within the Council, adequate procedures for convening meetings, recording decisions and ensuring that decisions are acted upon and followed up effectively.
• Responsible for ensuring that meetings of the Council, its committees and other bodies within the political management structure are adequately serviced.
• Responsible for ensuring that the Education Admission and Exclusions Appeals Panel Service provided by the Council to schools is efficient and compliant with statutory requirements, is supported and serviced, and Panel Members are adequately trained.
• To ensure maintenance of statutory and other registers, including those connected with the Code of Conduct and the Pecuniary Interests of Councillors and Officers.
• Responsible for ensuring that satisfactory procedures exist and are developed for the making and recording of decisions by officers and Councillors to ensure that individual decisions are in accordance with Council procedures.
• Ensure that statutory requirements associated with the recording and publishing of Council decisions are met.
• Ensure that all reports to Council and Council bodies are in accordance with the Council’s agreed procedures and meet reasonable standards of presentation.
• To work with the Head of Elections and Democracy and the Chief Legal Officer to produce and update the Council’s constitution and related documentation associated with the governance of the Council’s political management arrangements.
• To be responsible for and to develop the application of Information Technology systems used by Committee Services.
• To be responsible for the planning and coordination of the member induction and training programme working in conjunction with the Head of Organisational Development and the Council’s Learning team.

1. Drawing up a timetable of meetings for the Council.
2. Attending meetings of the Council, Cabinet and other meetings.
3. Providing procedural advice as required.
4. Preparing reports as necessary for submission to the Council, its committees and other bodies.

This is a hybrid-working role, requiring office attendance for Council and Committee meetings as and when required.

If you are interested, please call Charlotte Foley or Michael Attwood on 07441 916389, alternatively email [e-mail] with a copy of your updated CV and details of your current availability and we will be in touch to discuss further.

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.