Secretariat Assistant

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City of London

Secretariat Assistant

Salary: £38,080 - £42,150
Contractual Hours: 35 hours per week
Basis: Permanent
Workplace category: Hybrid

The Office of the Lord Mayor of London is recruiting for a new Secretariat Assistant to join the team providing support to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the offices of the Lord/Lady Mayor and the Sheriffs of the City of London.

Based across both Mansion House and the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), you will be responsible for providing high quality and professional diary and administrative support to the Lady Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of London.

An individual with significant experience of providing diary support for a high-profile Principal in a fast-paced environment, the postholder will need to work flexibly and collaboratively across different teams to meet competing priorities and deadlines.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the Principals’ schedules, providing support and advice to enable them to focus their time on strategic priorities across the City of London Corporation.

The role will also involve supporting the planning and delivery of stakeholder events, hosted either at Mansion House or at the Old Bailey, as well as supporting the coordination of responses to correspondence to the Lady/Lord Mayor in an accurate and timely manner.

In what is an important role, working to provide support across teams and Principals within the Department, you will provide cover and support where workload and absence may demand. You will be expected to provide high-quality comprehensive support across a range of activity and tasks and to be able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.

The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.

Closing date: 23:59 on 21 April 2026

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Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24 hr answerphone) quoting reference number OOTC1206 if you experience any difficulties. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.

The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier should we receive a high number of applications. Early applications are encouraged.

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We will be reviewing this policy and approach at regular intervals to ensure we’re meeting our attendance needs.