Business, Research and Administrative Professionals
What they do most days?
Negotiates and monitors contracted out services provided by the private sector to local government studies and acts upon any legislation that may affect the local authority.
Registers and maintains records of all births, deaths and marriages in local authority area, issues appropriate certificates and reports any suspicious causes of death to the coroner..
Co-ordinates and directs the activities of Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government.
Advises national and local government on the interpretation and implementation of policy decisions, acts and regulations, and provides technical assistance in the formulation of policy.
Controls and administers budgets.
Prepares and reviews operational and financial reports.
Develops plans, sets objectives and monitors and evaluates performance.
Recruits and manages staff, assigns and delegates tasks and duties, makes changes in procedures to deal with variations in workload.
Analyses internal processes and systems, recommends and implements procedural and policy changes.
Coordinates the organisation’s services and resources, liaising with other senior staff.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.