Governance Officer
Salary: £38,960 – £41,000 dependent on experience
Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working.
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week
DBS check required: Basic
About us
We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.
We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Governance Officer to join our dedicated Governance & Compliance department. The key purpose of this role is to work with the Company Secretary and Head of Governance to manage and provide a company secretarial and governance service to boards, committees and partnerships operating in the governance structure.
Key responsibilities:
Company Secretarial service
- To attend, co-ordinate and distribute agendas and papers for Committee and Partnership meetings
- To prepare accurate and concise minutes, matters arising and action logs for Committee and Partnership meetings
- To arrange away days and events for Board members
- To deliver the programme for approval and registration of accounts, and Annual General Meetings
- To undertake statutory filing with Companies House and other bodies, and maintenance of company registers (both electronic and paper files)
- To ensure document libraries are regularly updated with current board papers, articles, minutes, key business information. policies and procedures, publications and proactively identify relevant items for inclusion
- To oversee the maintenance of company, shareholder and member records, including formal and regulatory reporting
Governance
- To support the production, approval and delivery of the corporate calendar of board and committee meetings
- To support the Board & Committee member appraisal process to ensure it is conducted in accordance with policy
- To deliver projects on behalf of the Company Secretary and Head of Governance
Compliance
- To support the Compliance Solicitor on all matters of financial and legal compliance (including anti-money laundering, fraud, bribery) and probity issues (including declarations of interest, gifts and hospitality)
- To deliver training, briefings and e-communications on compliance matters to raise awareness and embed compliance understanding
- To support the maintenance and oversight of investigations, assessments, monitoring and prevention activities to assist in mitigation for non-compliance and risks
- To provide support for the monitoring and maintenance of compliance registers and records
- To support monitoring compliance with laws, regulations and internal policies
- Evaluate and improve effectiveness of compliance processes and procedures to enhance efficiency and output
More about you
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)
- Gained or working towards a qualification in governance – for example ACGI
- Experience of working with boards and executives
- Preparation of minutes, reports and agendas
- Understanding of governance processes
- Attention to detail in preparing corporate documents
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development.
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:
- actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
- provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
- offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
- make reasonable adjustments as required
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk.
A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
