Company Secretary, Corporate Services - London, United Kingdom - Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Company Secretary
Are you an experienced Company Secretary looking for your next career move?

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH) are hiring for a Company Secretary to join us on a permanent basis.

About the role
GOSH Charity's Company Secretary, Corporate Services is an instrumental role in the Charity Leadership Group.

The role has accountability for the Charity's compliance with legal requirements and maintaining high standards of corporate governance, including internal audit, risk, data protection, whistleblowing, procurement, and insurance.

You will hold a strategic position at the heart of the governance operations supporting Trustees, Boards and Committees to ensure the proper conduct of the Charity in regard to ensuring compliance with the regulatory and statutory obligations.

This role requires someone with the ability to balance the organisation's needs to ensure compliance with all relevant regulation, guidance, and best practice, whilst analysing risks in relation to compliance to facilitate appropriate cost-effective solutions.

You will determine, prepare, and monitor appropriate policies and procedures and ensure the provision of legal advice that supports the delivery of the highest standards of good governance.

We are looking for someone who is a secretariat and governance specialist, who is passionate about good governance and holds a strong belief that governance is an enabler, providing a pragmatic, ethical, achievable, and relevant approach that embeds governance into the heart of business as usual.

You will ideally also already have some knowledge of and responsibility for data protection.

About You
You will be an experienced Company Secretary

Specifically, you will have:

Proven experience leading a Governance, Secretariat and Compliance function in a complex organisation.
Demonstrable knowledge and experience of leading and advising on Data Protection compliance.
Experience in identifying pragmatic solutions for legal and governance matters.
Experience in conveying complex legal and governance matters to a wide audience of internal stakeholders, management, and Trustees.
Working knowledge of corporate and charity law, audit, risk, procurement, and other corporate services.
Working knowledge of the charity/notforprofit sector desirable.
Chartered Governance Institute qualified essential.
Industry recognised Data Protection qualification desirable.

About the Team

Hybrid working

What we offer

30 days (Prorata) annual leave (plus bank holidays), with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days.
A flexible approach to working arrangements.
Access to our enhanced pension scheme
Life assurance
Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme

Next steps and how to apply

Closing date: 11th
April 2024

About the Charity
Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, over 750 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses.

And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children - and change the world.

This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential.

Without donations, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity can't help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities.

Our staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you.

Along with being awarded the 'Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023', we were delighted to be recently awarded the Charity Times Fundraising Team of the Year 2023.

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