Secretary

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Please note this vacancy is only available to Birmingham City Council employees.

Secretary

ACTING UP or SECONDMENT until May 2026

Grade B

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 18.25 hours per week

Senior Secretary/Caseworker

An exciting acting up/secondment opportunity has arisen for an adaptable and self-motivated Senior Secretary/Caseworker with excellent communication administration and organisational skills. The secondment currently is expected to run until May 2026.

You will provide secretarial support to the elected members of the Birmingham Independent Councillors group. Respecting and preserving confidentiality will be key as well as the ability to thrive in a stimulating and fast-moving environment. The role requires excellent literacy skills.

You should be self-motivated solution focused and able to deal with casework enquiries and work competently to high standards. You will have a wide range of experience of all aspects of secretarial and casework including:

1. Casework management opening/distributing post word processing copy/ typing letters mail merges etc to meet priorities deadlines and standards.

1. Operate effective working practices that are designed to ensure that appropriate action is taken on behalf of the Group Councillors to correspondence enquiries and issues raised within the Group will involve the origination and drafting of letters and where matters are to be dealt with outside the office the monitoring of action taken.

1. Provide administrative support to the Group this will involve arranging meetings maintenance of records filing processing of stationery and printing requests and photocopying.

1. Sorting incoming post.

1. Dealing with telephone calls from Councillors Members of Parliament local regional and national Council Departments members of the public and outside organisations acting as the first point of contact.

The role is currently based at the Council House Victoria Square Birmingham B1 1BB.

If you are interested in this role please set out your skills in relation to the person specification as all applications are measured against the person specification to select for interview.

For any informal enquiries please contact Ingrid Whyte on 0 or email @

Closing date is Wednesday 11th February 2026 with interviews taking place shortly after.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer andwe arecommitted to employing retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments additional support accessibility needs or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact the Resourcing Team

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance withUK Home Office requirements before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy Birmingham City Council here.

Job Description and PersonSpecification - Senior Secretary