Salary: £54,556 to £60,085 per annum including a local weighting allowanceContract Type: Permanent, Full-timeWorking Hours: 37 hours per week
Slough Borough Council continues to make important progress on its improvement journey, with a renewed focus on strong governance, effective decision making and high quality democratic support. As part of this, we are creating a new Local Democracy Manager role to strengthen the delivery of democratic services and scrutiny, and to ensure the Council’s decision making arrangements are robust, transparent and well supported.
This is a key operational management post within Democratic Services, reporting to the Head of Democratic Services. The role will lead and manage a small professional team and take day to day responsibility for the effective operation of committee, scrutiny and wider democratic processes. You will provide high quality procedural and constitutional advice to councillors, senior officers and colleagues, helping to ensure decisions are taken lawfully, efficiently and with confidence.
We are looking for an experienced democratic services professional with strong leadership skills, sound judgement and a commitment to public service, good governance and democratic accountability, who is motivated to make a meaningful contribution to Slough Borough Council’s continued improvement and future success.
Role Description
- To provide operational management and leadership in the effective planning, conduct and control of all the authority’s democratic decision-making processes and implementation thereof.
- To support and deputise for the Head of Democratic Services on areas of responsibility encompassed by the role.
- To contribute to the development and continuous improvement of the service, working alongside other managers reporting to the Head of Democratic Services.
What we are looking for:
- Significant experience of providing procedural or other advice, some of which may be of a highly technical nature, to a variety of individuals
- Extensive demonstrable experience of working in a Democratic, Committee and/or Scrutiny Services type role
- Experience of carrying out a range of sometimes complex administrative or office management tasks.
- Experience of using modern.gov committee management software
- Experience of leading a team of professional officers.
Deadline for applications: Midnight, Friday 29 May 2026
Interviews will be held week commencing 8thJune 2026
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