Job summary
Good governance and compliance is fundamental to our success as a registered charity and membership organisation and were looking for a Governance Manager who can help us implement our governance strategy whilst still making sure we get the basics right.
Main duties of the job
You are an experience governance professional, preferably with strong charity governance knowledge, who can bring the skills and knowledge to support trustees and our small governance team in ensuring we get governance right our day-to-day processes and planning, our compliance and our development.
We are a small but fast paced team and therefore excellent project and task management is a must along with working in a mutually supportive way to ensure we achieve our common goals.
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual who has the knowledge, experience and confidence to play a key role in shaping the governance of our organisation at a critical time.
About us
The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The NHS Confederation is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our staff networks and a staff forum.
The NHS Confederation is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.
You will receive an excellent benefits package, including 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice schemes and travel season ticket loans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a governance manager you will:
- Act as board secretary
- Act as a guardian of the core governance documents and policies
- Support governance development to achieve best governance practice
About youYou are a highly knowledgeable and organised individual who has experience of providing excellent board secretarial services and governance advice.
You will also:
- have a good understanding of governance best practices, ideally within the charity sector
- have a pragmatic and strategic approach to your work
- be skilled at forming positive relationships with key stakeholders at all levels of seniority
- be highly organised, able to manage up
- be able to act as a champion of good governance across the organisation, supporting staff to understand the organisations legal and governance obligations whilst finding pragmatic solutions that achieve excellence in governance yet are mindful of organisational pressures and priorities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a governance manager you will:
- Act as board secretary
- Act as a guardian of the core governance documents and policies
- Support governance development to achieve best governance practice
About youYou are a highly knowledgeable and organised individual who has experience of providing excellent board secretarial services and governance advice.
You will also:
- have a good understanding of governance best practices, ideally within the charity sector
- have a pragmatic and strategic approach to your work
- be skilled at forming positive relationships with key stakeholders at all levels of seniority
- be highly organised, able to manage up
- be able to act as a champion of good governance across the organisation, supporting staff to understand the organisations legal and governance obligations whilst finding pragmatic solutions that achieve excellence in governance yet are mindful of organisational pressures and priorities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working to support governance and substantial experience of servicing senior level boards and committees, ideally in the charity sector (or if not, a good understanding of charity governance)
- Excellent written business English, record keeping, minute writing, proof reading, editing and document formatting skills and writing concise reports.
- Excellent and pragmatic judgement and decision making on providing high quality advice to the chair and senior leaders on governance matters
- Leading by example - adhering to and promoting the organisations values and standards for equality, diversity and inclusion and appropriately challenging others if they fall short.
- Being outcomes focussed and able to project manage and prioritise your work and competing demands, and support the wider team, in achieving common goals.
- A strong and supportive team player with the ability to be flexible in response to shared team priorities and supporting colleagues in developing their understanding of governance.
- Excellent customer care and relationship management skills that will enable you to build trusting and mutually supportive relationships across the organisation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working to support governance and substantial experience of servicing senior level boards and committees, ideally in the charity sector (or if not, a good understanding of charity governance)
- Excellent written business English, record keeping, minute writing, proof reading, editing and document formatting skills and writing concise reports.
- Excellent and pragmatic judgement and decision making on providing high quality advice to the chair and senior leaders on governance matters
- Leading by example - adhering to and promoting the organisations values and standards for equality, diversity and inclusion and appropriately challenging others if they fall short.
- Being outcomes focussed and able to project manage and prioritise your work and competing demands, and support the wider team, in achieving common goals.
- A strong and supportive team player with the ability to be flexible in response to shared team priorities and supporting colleagues in developing their understanding of governance.
- Excellent customer care and relationship management skills that will enable you to build trusting and mutually supportive relationships across the organisation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.