Jobs

Full-time and Permanent
Salary £51,897 – £60,219 per annum
Plus generous benefits package
Hybrid / flexible working

About the role

We have a vitally important and rare opening for an experienced Governance and Compliance specialist to join our team.

This is an exciting role that has a wide reach across the organisation. By nature, it’s a role that requires engagement with many stakeholders internally and externally. Therefore, you’ll have a terrific opportunity to shape best practice across the organisation within the scope of your responsibilities. 

You’ll be comfortable in a senior position, either moving from a similar post or looking to advance your career. You will use your strong communication skills to build positive relationships with senior stakeholders and colleagues.

The ideal candidate must already have substantial, proven experience of: 

– Owning and leading Business Planning, Performance and Risk Management for an organisation. 
– Corporate governance administration processes and compliance. 
– Working within an Executive-level environment (business or charity sector), including formal or equivalent experience of complex Board administration and stakeholder engagement.

 

The difference you’ll make

Your responsibilities will be varied. Each day will be different, with new challenges that push your capabilities. Reporting to the Director-General your duties will include:

– Ensuring our critical business planning, performance and risk management strategies are fully aligned, supporting the execution of strategy, and minimising risk, ensuring our procedures and processes are subject to best practice governance and compliance. 

– Coaching and leading a small talented team, focusing on their development through coaching. Reporting directly to this role is the Compliance Manager, Records & Information Manager and Legal Counsel. 

– Providing comprehensive support to our Board and Leadership Team (LT), partnering closely with LT, and ensuring alignment of activity.

– Serving as a trusted and informed support to the Chair of the Board and its Trustees, enabling comprehensive delivery of Board-related activity, including all meetings, minutes, and operational management of the Board’s activities). 

– Managing the administration and support the activity of the Board (and related Boards and Committees) to ensure rigorous and effective governance, coordinating activity and provide support to LT as required. 

 
Planning, Performance and Risk Management 

– Planning, performance, and risk management, ensuring working with the Chief Operating Officer, and LT colleagues, to align our strategic and business planning, performance management and risk management operations, navigating through uncertainty and risk.

– Ensuring the set up and delivery of organisational key performance frameworks and indicators annually to deliver organisational priorities and demonstrable impact on outcomes. 

– Promoting a positive risk culture by developing our risk planning, overseeing the ongoing continuous improvement, leadership engagement and quarterly monitoring/reporting. Proactive management of risk registers aiding the embedding of risk into the strategic planning process. 

– Reporting on performance to LT/Board of Trustees and feeding into annual performance indicators, proactively addressing shortfalls, and identifying actions. 

 
Governance and Compliance 

– Ownership of corporate governance and compliance – advising on and managing compliance. 

– Developing robust organisational policies as required to deliver strong corporate governance and compliance practices ensuring these are embedded in the organisation. 

– Liaising with government bodies as needed, developing the relationship with the sponsor team. Coordinating consultation on new legislation/ national or sectoral policy responses. 

– Providing information management and governance leadership on records and data. 

– Being the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the organisation. 

– Working with the Director of Finance, responsible for our assurance framework. 

 
Projects and Reporting

– Leading and delivering various projects related to the strategic plan and organisational priorities. 

– Working with the Director of Finance, producing trustee annual report and governance statement. 

– Ensuring the timely escalation of governance, risk and compliance issues to LT and Trustees as required.  

 
Other duties: 

– Oversight and support for Gaelic, DP, FOI, equalities compliance. 

– Legislation – NH Act, Ethics, Consultations (sector/government), Charity. 

– Budget management. 

– Membership of external stakeholder groups, for example, Museums Galleries Scotland. 

– Membership of the Extended Leadership Team. 

Please apply directly via our careers portal.

The closing date is 12 noon on Monday, 19 August 2024.

Application Deadline: Monday 19/08/2024