Cabinet Advisor

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO4 (£47,532 – £50,574)
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 25th May 2025
Interviews: w/c 26th May and 2nd June 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

As part of a small team you will work closely with Cabinet Members, providing advice and support across many areas of their role – including decision-making, prioritisation, forward planning, policy analysis, political management, horizon-scanning and stakeholder management.

You will be an important point of contact in helping to build and maintain relationships between the Cabinet, councillors, senior officers, residents and key partners. The role will also enable the right candidate to develop their skills in a range of fields such as stakeholder management, governance and project work.

About the Team

The Leader & Cabinet Office at Haringey is a small, dynamic team. We collaborate to provide strategic support to the Leader of the Council and Cabinet Members.  We naturally see the full span of what the council and its partners do from our vantage point – and it is of course a varied and fast-paced experience.  We work closely as a team, with a great sense of purpose, camaraderie and humour.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

•    A strong understanding of political management
•    Excellent writing and communication skills
•    Great organisational and planning skills
•    A strong understanding of the challenges in navigating a bureaucracy – and the skills and approaches to managing this
•    Strong stakeholder management

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk