Governance Support Coordinator

Ifrs-Foundation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

IFRS Foundation is seeking a Governance and Secretariat professional to provide recruitment and secretariat support to the Trustees and Committees. You will coordinate global nomination processes, manage multi-timezone communications, and ensure governance cycles run on time.

Reporting to the Director of Governance and Trustee Activities, the role requires strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to work in a fast-paced international environment.

Qualifications

• Experience providing recruitment support to boards, committees or senior groups.
• Experience coordinating governance or nomination processes with multiple stakeholders.
• Advanced project management to handle time-critical workstreams.
• Strong logistical planning across time zones and jurisdictions.
• Excellent organisation and ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive recruitment support to the Nominating Committee and governance bodies.
• Coordinate nomination and appointment processes for Trustees and other board members.
• Manage planning of recruitment activities across time zones, including travel and venues where required.
• Track termed appointments and renewal planning across cycles.
• Manage governance timelines and meetings, including agendas, minutes, and action tracking.
• Support other Governance processes as required.

Skills

Recruitment support

Governance coordination

Project management

Logistical planning

Organisational skills

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-cultural communication

Job description

Reports to: Director of Governance and Trustee Activities

Job Purpose: A key member of the IFRS Foundation's Governance team, providing governance and secretariat support to the IFRS Foundation Trustees and their Committees. The role acts as the primary point of contact for the Nominating Committee, delivering recruitment governance and administrative support to enable effective Trustee and Committee operations. The role may also provide support to other key governance committees and processes, as required.

The role plays a central part in coordinating the Nominating Committee's global appointment processes and meetings, maintaining clear and effective communications across all timezones between Trustees, senior leaders and candidates and ensuring that the IFRS Foundation's governance framework operates smoothly and to a high standard.

The role operates across several high-profile and time-critical governance cycles, with appointments and onboarding activity requiring careful planning, coordination and delivery against fixed deadlines. The postholder will need advanced project management skills to manage competing priorities and fluctuating workloads across multiple parallel workstreams.

Principal accountabilities:

• Provide proactive recruitment support to the Nominating Committee, enabling effective delivery of its mandate, objectives and work plan, as directed by the Chair of the Nominating Committee and Director of Governance and Trustee Activities.
• Coordinate the administration of nomination and appointment processes for vacancies relating to the Trustees, Interpretations Committee, Advisory Council, IASB and ISSB Board members, and other related recruitment activity.
• Manage the logistical and administrative planning of recruitment activities involving international stakeholders, including scheduling across multiple time zones, coordinating travel and venue arrangements where required, and ensuring smooth delivery of interviews, panel meetings and other recruitment events for globally dispersed candidates.
• Manage termed appointments requiring careful tracking and renewal planning.
• Manage key recruitment milestones, timelines and governance processes to ensure deadlines are met, working across multiple parallel appointment and onboarding cycles simultaneously.
• Arrange and service recruitment-related meetings, including preparation of agendas, minutes, reports and action tracking.
• Provide support for other processes within the Governance team, as required.

Skills and experience:

• Experience providing recruitment support to boards, committees, governing bodies or senior stakeholder groups, ideally within a membership-based, non-profit or international organisation.
• Experience coordinating complex governance, nomination, or decision-making processes involving multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines, across multiple timezones
• Advanced project management skills, with a track record of delivering multiple concurrent, time-critical workstreams against fixed deadlines in a high-profile governance or similar environment.
• Strong logistical planning skills, with experience coordinating activities across different time zones, cultures and jurisdictions for a globally dispersed stakeholder group.
• Excellent organisational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and work confidently with leaders, senior stakeholders and colleagues from diverse backgrounds, including international and remote stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a global, fast-paced environment, with flexibility to accommodate varying working hours and cultural contexts as needed to support a global nominations process.

Application Closing Date: 21st November 2026

Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate.

About us

At the IFRS Foundation, we believe better information leads to better decisions. We set financial reporting standards that enable companies to meet the evolving information needs of the global capital markets. United by our purpose to foster trust, growth and long-term financial stability in the global economy, we engage in challenging, meaningful work every day - across all our areas of expertise.

If you share our passion for this mission, we want to hear from you.

Diverse perspectives. International expertise.

Working for our global organisation offers many benefits, including:

• rewarding work that serves the public interest;
• engagement with diverse international experts;
• inclusive and collaborative teams;
• intellectually challenging projects;
• flexible working arrangements;
• numerous areas of specialisation; and
• opportunities for professional growth and development.
• We offer a hybrid working model.

Diversity and inclusion are seen as key strengths of our organisation. These qualities are essential for us to engage with and meet the needs of our varied global stakeholders, and they are part of what makes the IFRS Foundation a great place to work.