Governance Professional

The Bishop Of Winchester Academy; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in the United Kingdom seeks a Governance Professional to provide essential support to its Trust Board. The ideal candidate will have experience in education governance and possess strong organizational and communication skills. This role offers flexible working hours, professional development opportunities, and a supportive environment prioritizing staff welfare. Candidates should be committed to safeguarding children's welfare and must undergo an enhanced DBS check.

Benefits

Career Development with CPD programme

Excellent teaching facilities and free parking

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in education governance preferred.
• Willingness to work towards a governance qualification is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of a clerking service for board meetings.
• Ensure statutory governance information is published promptly.
• Provide guidance on procedural and legislative issues.
• Facilitate trustee training and development.
• Support ongoing monitoring of trust board effectiveness.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Governance knowledge

Education

Governance qualification

Job description

Are you looking got a career in a thriving, friendly and supportive environment where staff welfare is a priority? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people in a role that really matters? If so, The Bishop of Winchester Academy wants you!

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a single academy trust in Bournemouth seeking to appoint an experianced and highly organised Governance Professional to support the work of our Trust Board. This key role provides professional advice and guidance and administrative support to the effective operation of the academy's governance.

This is an excellent opportunity for a capable governance professional with experiance of education governance. A Governance qualification would be desireable, however training is available if you have a willingness to work towards this.

The post offers flexible working hours, aside from scheduled meetings which are usually in the day before 5pm, with most meetings held in person at the Academy and a small number being virtual online meetings.

Please review the job description and person specificiation for this role. If you would like to discuss this role in more detail, please contact Abi Heard who will arrange a call with David Thompson our Chair of Trustees or Paul McKeown, our Principal.

As Governance Professional, the successful candidate will:

• Undertake all aspects of a clerking service (scheduling, agendas, papers, attendance, formal minutes, correspondence) for TBOWA and related meetings within the scheme of delegation.
• Ensure statutory information about governance is collated and supplied in a timely manner for publication on the academyls website.
• Provide procedural and legislative expertise to the Trust Board and ALT regarding acadmey governance.
• Undertake recruitment of new trustees and members. Undertake all aspects of trustee appointment, record-keeping and membership monitoring.
• Manage induciona and training, online and in-person to trustees and members.
• Facilitate ongoing development for trustees to strengthen capacity, effectiveness, and succession.
• Facilitate and support the monitoring and effectiveness of the trust board, identifying and prioritsing areas to be resolved/improved, in agreement with the Chair and the Principal.

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recoginised by Ofsted as prioritising 'wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils "live life to the full." (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to imporve the life chances of all our students is at the very centre of our work.

We put the welfare of staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:

• Career Development with bespoke CPD programme
• Excellent newly refurbished teaching facilities with free onsite parking and good local transport links
• Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Close proximity to beaches and the Jurrassic Coast to assist with your work life balance

The Bishop of Wincheser Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably quallified candidates. We are comitted to safeguarding and promiting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

Please be aware that due to the 'Keeeping Children Safe in Education' legislation we do not accept CV's.

We reseve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have receieved applications that meet the criteria.