Clerk to the Local Governing Body

Bwsgirls; Bicknor Wood; Hybrid; GBP 1,500 - 2,100; Part time

Job summary

Lumero Educational Trust seeks a professional clerk to support Local Governing Bodies across our schools. The role involves providing a full clerking service, ensuring compliance with legislation, preparing agendas and minutes, and coordinating actions with governors.

The post offers flexible working from home or on-site as required, with meetings approximately ten times per year, each requiring about nine hours.

Qualifications

• Professional, energetic and enthusiastic individual with close attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Provide full clerking service to the Governors of Local Governing Bodies.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant legislation.
• Prepare agendas and minutes and circulate actions and administration.

Skills

Attention to detail

Job description

Start Date:

As soon as possible

Working Pattern:

Clerk to the Governors

Working hours as required for approximately ten meetings per year (five per school)

Location:

The role offers flexibility to work remotely from home or on-site at the school, as required by the needs of the role.

Salary:

NJC Salary Scale 5 Pt 11

Salary per hour £17.08 plus £2.47 holiday pay

Introduction

At Lumero Educational Trust we have a strong focus on building a diverse and inclusive environment for all staff and the wider school community. We welcome applications from all qualified applicants.

We are seeking to appoint a professional, energetic and enthusiastic individual, with a close

attention to detail, to join our Multi-Academy Trust team of dedicated clerks. The main focus of work will be to provide a full clerking service to the Governors of Local Governing Bodies,

ensuring adherence to all relevant legislation. This role will be clerking to Governing Boards with significant strategic insight and authority, and the clerk will need to demonstrate an absolute commitment to confidentiality.

The role will sit within the established team of clerks with primary duties aligned to two of our schools.

Each meeting will require approximately 9 hours in total – 2 hours in preparation, 2 hours in attendance and 5 hours in circulating the resulting minutes and associated actions and administration. Evening availability will be required for the meeting, but flexible home working is available for all other hours worked. Two additional hours per half term should be assumed to support Trust engagement, team meetings and training events. Additional hours may also be required to clerk for ad hoc committees.