Senior Governance Specialist - Board & Entity Management

Oil Authority; Rotterdam, Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron Netherlands B.V. is seeking a Governance Specialist to support effective corporate governance for Chevron legal entities in the Netherlands and Europe. The role ensures timely, well-documented board decisions, maintains entity records, coordinates actions, and provides governance guidance within defined authority.

The specialist will work largely independently, escalate for complex legal issues, and may be based in Rotterdam or Amsterdam with flexibility to travel to other Chevron sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in corporate law, governance, or a comparable discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in corporate law, corporate governance, company secretarial work, legal-entity management, holding-company finance, or a closely related environment.
• Working knowledge of Dutch private-company law and governance, board and shareholder decision processes, and corporate-record requirements.
• Ability to draft concise resolutions, minutes, governance memoranda, and executive-ready decision materials in English.
• Strong planning, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and elevate appropriately.
• High attention to detail, discretion, and commitment to accurate, audit-ready documentation.
• Professional proficiency in Dutch.

Responsibilities

• Prepare annual calendars, agendas, briefing materials, resolutions, powers of attorney, and minutes so that board and shareholder decisions are timely, complete, properly authorized, and traceable.
• Coordinate and, where appropriate, chair board and shareholder meetings. Track decisions and actions through completion and support the annual Netherlands board summit.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and accessible legal-entity records, statutory documentation, and entity data. Coordinate required approvals, signatures, and filings.
• Monitor recurring governance obligations and protect the integrity of the corporate record for audit, legal review, and management decision-making.
• Coordinate incorporations, reorganizations, board-of-director changes, capital contributions, dividends, mergers, redomiciliations, dissolutions, and liquidations.
• Provide governance guidance to boards, management, and business partners on Dutch subsidiary-governance requirements, internal policies, process steps, and documentation standards.
• Coordinate governance input for commercial agreements and corporate transactions with cross-functional teams.
• Maintain governance calendars, trackers, templates, and management reporting to ensure visibility of obligations, milestones, risks, and ownership.

Skills

Governance

Project management

Stakeholder management

English drafting

Dutch proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in corporate law or governance

Tools

SAP

Job description

Chevron Netherlands B.V. is seeking a Governance Specialist to support effective corporate governance for Chevron legal entities in the Netherlands and Europe. The role ensures timely, well-documented board decisions, maintains entity records, coordinates actions, and provides governance guidance within defined authority.

The specialist will work largely independently, escalate for complex legal issues, and may be based in Rotterdam or Amsterdam with flexibility to travel to other Chevron sites.