- Coordinate and manage the agendas for our Board, committees, and executive meetings, focusing on strategic priorities and ensuring all relevant issues are addressed.
- Take accurate minutes during these meetings, ensuring they capture the essence of discussions and decisions.
- Ensure the distribution, agreement, and secure storage of meeting minutes in compliance with our governance protocols.
- Assist in the preparation of board papers, ensuring they are comprehensive and delivered in a timely manner to all relevant parties.
- Act as a primary liaison between executives, board members, and committee chairs, fostering strong and effective relationships.
- Oversee the compliance activities related to governance, ensuring all statutory and regulatory requirements are met with precision.
- Proven experience in managing and coordinating agendas for high-level meetings, with a keen eye for detail and an ability to grasp and focus on critical issues.
- Expertise in minute-taking, with a capability to accurately record discussions and resolutions during complex meetings.
- Skills in efficiently distributing and archiving governance documentation, ensuring accessibility and compliance with legal standards.
- Strong organisational skills to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, ensuring all governance activities are executed flawlessly.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders across various levels.
- A proactive approach to governance, with a readiness to anticipate changes in regulations and ensure all governance practices are up-to-date and effective.
- Flexible working hours, we're open to agreeing a work pattern with you
- This is a hybrid role working 2 days from our brilliant new office in the centre of Newcastle and the rest of the week at home
- Able to use technology for preparing reports and presentations
- You'll need a Basic DBS check done and we pay for that
- 34 days leave (including bank hols and a "me day" to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too
- Flexible working hours (or we're open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
- Health cash plan - saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and your children if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies, and lots more.
- This is a hybrid role working between one of our offices and you home
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us
- Colleague wellbeing really matters to us. There are several tools and support available to help when you need them
Governance Business Partner - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Home Group
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Job Description
Governance Business Partner DescriptionGovernance Business Partner
1x Permanent and 1x Fixed Term Role - Full Time 37.5 hpw
Based from our Newcastle upon Tyne office 2 days per week and home working the remainder
Salary circa £40,000 pa and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
Are you meticulous and committed to governance excellence? As a Governance Business Partner at Home Group, you'll play a key role in supporting our Governance and Risk team to enhance our governance framework. Your focus will be on managing committee and board processes effectively, ensuring meetings are efficient and impactful. You'll also maintain key registers, support policy development, and ensure compliance across our strategic decision-making processes. If you thrive in a role where precision and proactive support are paramount, and enjoy cultivating strong stakeholder relationships to maximise collaboration, then this is the job for you
Typical day as a Governance Business Partner
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better. You'll do that here, working for one of the Top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK
You bring
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.
Our team
You'll join Charlotte and our Risk & Governance team, we're super passionate about what we do We're a supportive bunch and like to catch up over a cuppa virtually or in person.
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A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work
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