About the Role
Role: Mayor’s Secretary | Location: Chorley and South Ribble | Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent | Salary: £34,434 - £37,280 | Closing Date: 21 October 2025
Would you like to contribute to the civic life of our two Boroughs? Looking for a varied job where no two days are the same? Are you an organised and customer-driven people person? Great at organising events?
We’re looking for an exceptional Mayor’s Secretary to provide an excellent support service to the Mayor and our civic services function across both Chorley and South Ribble.
What you’ll be getting up to
* Ensuring the busy Mayor’s office is managed efficiently and effectively, including diary management, advising on protocol and administrative services
* Ensuring Mayoral engagements run smoothly and the Mayor is fully briefed and prepared
* Organising Mayoral, civic and other high profile corporate events
* Supporting the operation of the Lancastrian Suite
* Providing corporate support to other teams as needed
Who we’re looking for
* Someone with strong interpersonal, customer service and organisational skills
* Flexibility with organising events and Mayoral engagements
* A great communicator and ability to liaise with a diverse range of people and organisations
* Creativity, ability to advise on process and provide a wide range of secretarial and administrative services
* Experience of using Microsoft Office
* Ability to communicate in writing with strong numeracy skills
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
* Hybrid/agile working from day one
* Local Government pension
* Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
* Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
* Free parking
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
About Us
At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Provisional interview date: 30 October 2025
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices. We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website. If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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