Governance Lead (Mat Cover)

RNID; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join RNID as a Governance Lead (Mat Cover) to ensure legal compliance and lead governance initiatives. This part-time, remote role offers a competitive salary between £55K-£60K and allows you to make impactful contributions to a national charity supporting individuals with hearing loss and tinnitus. You'll lead the governance team, oversee data protection compliance, and work collaboratively across the organization.

Benefits

Remote working allowance of £26/month

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

2 wellbeing days for flexibility

Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution

Life Assurance - 2 x salary

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional benefits for maternity, paternity, and adoption

Access to a discounted ticketing platform

Health benefit from Hospital Saturday Fund

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of charity governance.
• Ability to handle highly sensitive information discreetly.
• Experience building rapport and trust quickly.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Governance team to maintain legal compliance.
• Act as Data Protection Officer responding to breaches.
• Coordinate the board and sub-committees for informed decisions.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Governance Knowledge

Data Protection Compliance

Education

No specific qualifications required

Job description

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Base pay range

Governance Lead maternity cover

• Location: Remote, UK.
• Salary: £55K-£60K
• Hours: 21-28 hours
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Application deadline: Sunday 29th June
• Interview Dates: Friday 11 July with second interviews on Wed 16 July
  
  

We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.

Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus.

We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better.

RNID has a proud history and big ambitions. We’re focused on making the greatest impact possible across the whole of the UK. We champion the latest technology and the opportunities it brings. We also know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.

Join our team

This role is important to us and this is where you come in…

Governance Lead in our wider Corporate Services Team will focus and lead on:

• Leading the Governance team to ensure that legal and regulatory compliance is maintained, collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure our approach is proportionate.
  
  

This is an exciting time to join RNID as the Governance team makes a significant contribution in enabling charitable delivery supporting our strategy to make life more inclusive for the 18 million in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.

You will be responsible for:

• Data Protection compliance across the charity, acting as our Data Protection Officer, responding to data breaches and other matters of regulatory reporting.
• Coordinating our Board and sub-committees, ensuring decision making is well informed and appropriately recorded, with excellent quarterly reporting.
• Overseeing organisational policy review and development.
• Working closely and collaborating with others across the charity to fulfil all aspects of the role, influencing others and taking an agile and proportionate approach to governance and compliance.
• Overseeing resources to accelerate and facilitate our work with corporate partners.
  
  

What You Will Be Doing

You will:

• Completing an annual review of the Charity Governance Code, and ensuring the organisation stays up to date on matters of legal and regulatory compliance.
• Working with our insurance broker to complete our annual insurance review.
• Supporting the recruitment, appointment and induction of new trustees.
• As DPO, supporting our Data Team on data protection compliance related to the implementation of our new CRM.
• Advising teams across the charity on matters of governance and compliance, as required.
  
  

You

You will have demonstratable experience of charity governance, bringing a pragmatic approach to governance and compliance, ensuring our processes are proportionate to risk.

You will have first class interpersonal skills, and a proven ability to work collaboratively, building rapport, confidence, and trust quickly, with a wide range of people, internally and externally.

You will be able to deal with highly sensitive information in a discreet and confidential way, and able to communicate clearly and concisely to staff at all levels including trustees.

Qualifications

No specific qualifications required.

What We Can Offer You

• Digital First, fully remote working with in person all-staff conferences throughout each year'
• Fully remote working with no core hours
• £26 remote working allowance every month
• 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
• Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
• Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Life Assurance - 2 x salary
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing app that provides counselling sessions
• Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
• Access to a discounted ticketing platform
• Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
  
  

Our commitment to diversity

We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments. If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.

RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews

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