Key information
Salary: £124,710
Budget: £8,100,000
Number of direct reports: 5
Number of indirect reports: 68
Biography
Helen joined the GLA in November 2021. She was a Civil Servant for 20 years and held a number of policy and private office roles in both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Responsibilities included the Honours system, Propriety & Ethics and being Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary of DCMS during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. She lives in South East London with her wife and two young children.
Responsibilities
Responsibility 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.
Managing 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.