Daily Tasks

• Negotiates and monitors contracted out services provided by the private sector to local government studies and acts upon any legislation that may affect the local authority.
• Registers and maintains records of all births, deaths and marriages in local authority area, issues appropriate certificates and reports any suspicious causes of death to the coroner.
• Co-ordinates and directs the activities of Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government.
• Advises national and local government on the interpretation and implementation of policy decisions, acts and regulations, and provides technical assistance in the formulation of policy.
• Controls and administers budgets.
• Prepares and reviews operational and financial reports.
• Develops plans, sets objectives and monitors and evaluates performance.
• Recruits and manages staff, assigns and delegates tasks and duties, makes changes in procedures to deal with variations in workload.
• Analyses internal processes and systems, recommends and implements procedural and policy changes.
• Coordinates the organisation.