Location of Role: Maidstone
Advert Closing Date: 15/07/2026
Starting Salary: £30,879.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
Weekend/Evening Working: No
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to undertake the role of Executive Assistant to Chief Officer at Kent Police Headquarters, Sutton Road, Maidstone.
This is a rewarding and demanding role requiring an individual who is highly organised and proactive, with excellent technical and behavioural skills. You must also be flexible and willing to work as part of the wider Executive Assistant Team to Chief Officers, providing cover during periods of abstraction and dealing with other taskings as directed by the Executive Manager.
You will often be required to plan and work on your own initiative, acting as the first point of contact for visitors and callers. Your duties will include managing Chief Officers’ diaries and emails, proactively preparing draft correspondence for approval, and minuting meetings that can be of a highly confidential or sensitive nature.
We are particularly looking for individuals who can demonstrate the following:
- A high level of standards, tact, discretion and diplomacy (whether this be verbally or in writing) acting as the Chief Officers’ representative, and in line with the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Behaviour.
- Strong negotiating and influencing skills, in order to identify and resolve commitment conflicts, provide options, recommendations and solutions, to facilitate the efficient and effective operation of commitments for the Chief Officers.
- An ability to assimilate information quickly and accurately (in line with MOPI and Information Security guidelines), and work with others where appropriate to identify potential risks and solve problems proactively in relation to diary management, receipt of information or conflicting priorities.
- A very high level of office planning and organisational skills, and to be conversant with all key office technology such as Outlook and Microsoft applications such as Teams and SharePoint.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, showing emotional awareness for others, particularly when dealing with a variety of sensitive and confidential information.
Interested applicants should request an online appointment with PSE Caroline Stevens (Executive Manager – [email protected]) to talk through the role and expectations in more detail.
In your application, you are required to provide evidence of the following:
- Proven experience providing senior-level administrative support or similar, including diary management, correspondence and meeting coordination.
- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing demands accurately in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to build effective relationships and liaise with stakeholders at all levels.
- Demonstrable ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion, diplomacy and sound judgement.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Teams and SharePoint, with the ability to use technology effectively to support business operations.
The role requires postholders to undergo Security Check level vetting, if not already in place, and any appointment would be subject to satisfactory completion of that vetting.
Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.
Depending on your current vetting level and security clearances, you may be required to complete additional vetting information during the recruitment process.
Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at [email protected] stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.
If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.
