Key information
Salary: £139,988
Pension contributions: £16,799
Budget: £8,000,000 revenue
Number of direct reports: 33
Number of indirect reports: 57
Biography
Ed is a Shropshire Lad who, when the Welsh Rugby Union scouts failed to spot his obvious potential, went to University in Manchester (fluking a first class degree in Politics) and ended up, by complete accident, in a local government committee services department in the West Midlands. Ed then went to Surrey County Council and started work for the GLA in 2000.
Prior to his promotion to Executive Director of the Assembly Secretariat in 2017, Ed was Head of Committee and Member Services, responsible for the teams that provide clerking services to mayoral boards (including CIB, the LEAP, the Housing Investment Group, Homes for London and London Land Commission), the London Assembly and its committees, Transport for London, the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, the London Legacy Development Corporation and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation.
Ed also has senior management responsibility for the Member Services teams who support the Assembly’s Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Green party groups.
Ed lives in Stoke Newington with his wife, three children, two cats and four fish. He supports Arsenal, Shrewsbury Town, Portland Timbers, Oakland A’s and, of course, Wales.
Responsibilities
Responsible for providing overall leadership to the London Assembly’s Secretariat, providing strategic and operational advice and expertise to the Assembly to ensure it achieves its objectives of holding the Mayor to account; and any other matters which the Assembly considers to be of importance to London. Manage the Secretariat Directorate (staffing and budget) effectively, ensuring high quality services are provided to support the London Assembly Members, and taking overall responsibility for the provision of policy advice, the implementation of decisions and the development and management of all services and activities within the Secretariat’s allotted area of accountability Act as Deputy Greater London Returning Officer if required by the Head of Paid Service/ Greater London Returning Officer (this will be dependent on the skills of the post-holder and the capacity within the wider executive management team to undertake this role).