The Staff Officer is a frontline 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.  The administrative structure ranges from the entry grade of Clerical Officer, through to Assistant Staff Officer, Staff Officer, Senior Staff Officer, and Administrative Officer. A Staff Officer will generally work under the direction and management of a Senior Staff Officer / Administrative Officer or analogous grade.

A Staff Officer’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 Staff Officer will be expected to use initiative and work to a high standard and will be required to operate the Council’s existing and future IT systems as part of their work.
The Staff Officer role requires excellent administrative, employee management, interpersonal, communication and other particular skills and expertise depending on assignment.
 

CONFINED COMPETITION (PANEL A & C – Local Authority Sector and Clare County Council)

Each candidate must, on the latest date for receipt of completed application forms -
be a serving employee of a local authority or a regional assembly and have not less than two years’ satisfactory experience in a post of Clerical Officer or analogous post,
and
have satisfactory experience in administrative procedures, including adequate practical experience in work of an executive nature, office organisation and control of staff.

OPEN COMPETITION (PANEL B)
Each candidate must, on the latest date for receipt of completed application forms -
 

1. have obtained at least Grade D (or a Pass), in Higher or Ordinary Level, in five subjects (or four if Irish is included) from the approved list of subjects in the Department of Education Established Leaving Certificate Examination or Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme including Irish and/or English and one of the following: Mathematics, Accounting, Business Organisation or Economics,

2. have obtained at least Grade C (or Honours) in Higher Level (or Honours) papers in three subjects in that examination (or two subjects if Irish and/or one of the following is included: Mathematics, Accounting, Business Organisation or Economics),

Please include supporting documents / certificates with application