Governance and Executive Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - The BAR Council

The BAR Council

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Bar Council represents the nearly 17,000 barristers in England and Wales.

It promotes the Bar's high quality specialist advocacy and advisory services; fair access to justice for all; the highest standards of ethics, equality and diversity across the profession; and the development of business opportunities for barristers at home and abroad.

The Bar Council is the governing body and the Approved Regulator for the Bar of England and Wales. It discharges its regulatory functions through the independent Bar Standards Board.

As Governance and Executive Support Officer, you would play a key role in the executive office by supporting the Bar Council's corporate and representative governance functions.

You would provide efficient, effective, and comprehensive first-line secretariat and administrative support to the entity's joint corporate committees and representative committees (including forward agenda planning, collation of papers and drafting accurate and high-quality minutes of meetings in line with the Bar Council's governance framework).

You would act as secretary to the Joint Audit Committee, Finance Committee and Chair's Committee to include preparing and circulating agendas; proofreading meeting papers; taking accurate minutes for approval and distribution and tracking forward actions.

Working with Committee Chairs and colleagues, you would identify risks to committee effectiveness and take appropriate steps to manage or mitigate as they should arise.

You'd also be responsible for submitting statutory company filings and supporting the general administration of the department to make sure the right people are in the right place, having the right conversations at the right time.

In return the Bar Council offers excellent terms and conditions of employment, including:

Up to 31 days annual leave
Up to 12% employer's pension contribution
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Life cover, and more

Closing Date:
Sunday 23 July 2023 at midnight.

Proposed Interview Date:

Week commencing 07 August 2023**- The General Council of the Bar _aims to recruit a talented workforce and values the diversity in background, skills and experience of its staff.

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all job applicants irrespective of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, maternity or pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status or gender re-assignment.