The Senior Executive Technician is a middle management position within the local authority and is assigned responsibility for managing the performance of a section / department handling an area of the local authority’s activities.

A Senior Executive Technician’s operational duties may include the day-to-day running of a section, the supervision and management of staff within the section, the planning, allocation and prioritisation of work and the reporting of progress of work at staff management meetings. Other duties may include representing their Department or the Council on various committees and contributing through the business planning process. The Senior Executive Technician will be expected to use initiative and work to a high standard and will be required to operate the Council’s existing and any future IT systems as part of their work.

The Senior Executive Technician role requires excellent administrative, technical, employee management (including performance and development management), interpersonal, communication and other particular skills and expertise depending on assignment.

Each candidate must, on the latest date for receipt of completed application forms:

1. have satisfactory experience, in a technician post at Grade I or higher level or in an analogous post under a local authority or health board in the State,
2. have at least seven years satisfactory relevant experience in a technician post at Grade II or higher level or an analogous post,
3. have a thorough knowledge of all the technical aspects of local authority work and also a deeper knowledge of at least one relevant section of the work and possess such training or experience as would enable them to take charge of such a section of the work,
4. have adequate experience in dealing with other departments within their own organisations and with other bodies,
5. have adequate experience in the direction, supervision and control of staff, and possess technical training and experience of a high standard and adequate administrative ability
6. possess technical training and experience of a high standard and adequate administrative ability

Please include supporting documents / certificates with application