{"id":986,"date":"2026-04-14T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/?post_type=jobpost&#038;p=986"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:36:07","slug":"senior-democratic-service-officers","status":"publish","type":"jobpost","link":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/?jobpost=senior-democratic-service-officers","title":{"rendered":"Senior Democratic Service Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We are currently recruiting for Senior Democratic Service Officers based in Greater Manchester.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pay rate: <\/strong>\u00a3253.97 &#8211; \u00a3273.50 per day PAYE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hours:&nbsp;<\/strong>Full time (37 hours per week) \u2013 Hybrid working may be available<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contract duration:&nbsp;<\/strong>Temporary ongoing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>Our Client is&nbsp;seeking experienced Senior Democratic Services Officers (Grade 4A) to provide interim capacity across its Governance functions during a period of significant improvement and service redesign. These roles will support statutory and non\u2011statutory committees, scrutiny, decision\u2011making, and member development, while contributing to the wider Governance 360 improvement programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Duties:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Support the delivery of formal and informal meetings, including Scrutiny Panels, Executive decision making cycles, and wider committee activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead on forward planning, agenda management, report assurance, publication of papers and decision making workflows.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide governance and procedural advice to senior officers and elected members, ensuring high standards of transparency, compliance and good decision making.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contribute to key aspects of the Governance 360 programme, including improvements to processes, constitutional arrangements, corporate governance practices, member support and democratic workflows.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support scrutiny activity, including work programming, evidence gathering, research, drafting of reports, and tracking recommendations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Produce high quality minutes, reports and governance documentation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use ModGov effectively to support end to end governance processes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide flexible capacity across Committee Services and Member Services where needed (e.g. briefings, civic functions, member learning and development).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work collaboratively across the wider Governance team to support cultural and procedural improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Essential Criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Strong experience in democratic services, ideally at a senior level.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excellent organisational and communication skills, with political awareness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to manage competing deadlines and work at pace in a complex environment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confidence working with senior officers, elected members and external partners.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High quality minute taking, report writing and document production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Experience with ModGov or similar committee management systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A proactive, flexible and professional approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Apply online or contact Terri O&#8217;Keefe on 07879 585551. You can also email <a href=\"mailto:terri@peelsolutions.co.uk\">terri@peelsolutions.co.uk<\/a> &nbsp;for more information on this role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently recruiting for Senior Democratic Service Officers based in Greater Manchester.&nbsp; Pay rate: \u00a3253.97 &#8211; \u00a3273.50 per day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","jobpost_category":[],"jobpost_job_type":[],"jobpost_location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jobpost\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jobpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/jobpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jobpost_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjobpost_category&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"jobpost_job_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjobpost_job_type&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"jobpost_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policejobs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjobpost_location&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}