Governance Manager

Adecco Public Sector are partnered with a key regulatory body to recruit a Governance Manager to join them on a permanent basis. This role offers the opportunity for Hybrid working with attendance to the organisations London office required.

About the role

You will ensure the organisation operates high standards of governance rigour and compliance, adhering to all statutory, regulatory and constitutional requirements; managing key stakeholder relationships with the Board, committee members, external government departments and the senior leadership; and line management of the executive assistant team.

Responsibilities

• Using your expertise and knowledge to act as Governance expert for the organisation to ensure proper governance processes and best practices are developed, implemented, and adhered to leading to sound business decision making at Board and Committee level, and throughout the wider organisation.
• Ensure good governance of the Board by setting and running the forward annual planning schedules for all Board/Committees and executive meetings, including taking minutes/following up on actions. Manage and assemble urgent ad hoc meetings to respond professionally and calmly to business requirements. Induct new Board members. Support Head of Strategy & Governance in conducting annual assessments of Board effectiveness and associated recommendations
• Educate and change organisational behaviour with senior managers where needed to implement and ensure rigour in business processes which feed cohesive and logical information to the Board and associated committees in a coordinated and methodical manner to illicit quality discussion and outcomes with a clear audit and within a recognised governance framework. Identify anomalies in data and information which do not align across departments and/or with business strategy, or, which contradict identified agreed business directions.
• Use expert knowledge and organisational agility to proactively identify activities across the organisation which require a governance framework including process changes which impact on regulatory policy, as well as signposting legislative issues to specialist functions
• Develop and oversee improvement plans to drive governance quality and rigour. Manage historic corporate governance information, including management of the policy library.
• Act as a deputy to the Head of Strategy & Governance, supporting them in their responsibilities as information asset owner
• Maintain effective working relationships with Senior Leadership Team, Directors, Home Office Sponsor Unit, Devolved administrations, other external stakeholders.

About you

To be successful in this role you will be able to display the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience of implementing and maintaining effective governance processes, structures and standards within a local government or similar organisation, ensuring legislative and regulatory compliance, including the production of accurate minute taking and maintenance of core governance documents.
• Detail-oriented, organised, critical thinker, with strong analytical skills. Ability to work under pressure and with conflicting priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and board and committee management skills, building effective relationships with the Chair, Non-Executive Directors, senior leadership team, Home Office and Authority members.
• Line management experience and ability to manage the quality, performance and impact of the executive assistant team.
• Proficient in IT applications, including the MS Office Suite.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of legislation associated with best practice governance eg Freedom Of Information, Subject Access Requests, GDPR etc.
• Experience of quality assurance and continuous improvement to deliver high standards of performance and impact.
• Experience of line managing executive assistant function.