Governance Officer - #2066487

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Governance Officer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £200-£250/day (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

You will support the delivery of an excellent, efficient and effective Governance team, ensuring best practice and adherence on all corporate governance matters across the organisation. The role of Governance Officer will work closely with the Information and Records Manager and the Senior Governance Officer, and report to the Head of Corporate Governance.

Responsibilities:

- Providing knowledge and advice to colleagues on corporate governance matters.

- Supporting the Senior Governance Officer on a broad range of corporate improvement projects.

- Representing the Governance team internally and externally.

- Maintaining systems/databases, including SharePoint and AdminControl, to ensure that corporate and request information is kept up-to-date, accurate, provided within deadlines and is accessible to all of the relevant people.

- Helping edit and prepare Board and Committee papers, attending meetings and preparing minutes.

- Assisting with monitoring, recording and responding to internal and external requests for information including Freedom of Information, Environmental Information Regulations requests and Data Subject Access requests.

- Assisting the Senior Governance Officer in collating management information for the Board, including liaison with internal teams, ensuring accurate and timely production of business performance reports.

- Assisting the governance team with adherence to the organisation’s Complaints Handling Procedure as needed.

Essential Skills:

- 5+ years’ experience in commercial and / or public sector.

- Extensive working knowledge of relevant corporate statutory responsibilities and legislation within the public sector.

- Experience of working in a corporate governance support role.

- Experience of project management, quality management and decision making

- You are flexible and adaptable to change.

- An enthusiastic, proactive team player.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Ability to adapt to changing requirements and pivot as the role requires.

- Good networking and relationship management skills with the ability to deal confidently and establish good relationships with stakeholders and colleagues.

- Commitment to customer focus and stakeholder satisfaction.

- Robust priority and time management skills with the ability to manage a diverse workload.

- Ability to follow standard operating procedures as well help improve them.

- Experience in handling information requests and drafting letters to public requestors.

- Experience in assisting with the preparation and presentation of briefings/reports.

- Proficient in the use of MS Office/O365 applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.

- Strong administration and organisational skills.

- Committed to your ongoing development of personal skills, knowledge and experience to perform effectively in a constantly changing environment.

- Highly confidential and discreet.

- Good problem solver.

- Excellent customer service.

- Delivering high quality and accurate outputs.

- Teamwork and collaboration skills.

- Ability to manage and prioritise a busy workload.

- Excellent minute and note-taking abilities.

- Ability to arrange meetings from start to finish, including the management of room bookings, catering, preparation of agendas, papers, minutes and action trackers.

- Be proactive in determining improved ways of delivering governance services.

- Have attention to detail.

- Be a self-starter who progresses professional development opportunities.

- Managing information for senior management, Executive Teams and Boards.

- Demonstrable record of professional integrity.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.