Governance Manager

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time

Job Description

Corporate Services

Governance Manager
Waverley Court 

Salary: £60, - £72,
Hours: 36 per week

We are seeking an ambitious, experienced and flexible individual to lead the City of Edinburgh's Governance Team.

Leading a team with a diverse and varied role we are looking for a confident, adaptable and creative professional able to navigate complex political and administrative challenges while always ensuing that the rigorous standards of behaviour and procedure are upheld. The team undertake a wide range of activities to ensure the Council operates with a robust governance framework. The team also work to the Monitoring Officer in administering and delivering an impartial whistleblowing service. You will have well-developed political sensitivity as you will need to deliver impartial advice to all political groups and to senior management on number of sensitive and difficult issues. The successful individual will have a track record of working in dynamic organisations, with strong communication and interpersonal skills, strong organisational skills and the ability to provide impartial and high quality advice to both senior officers and elected members. They will need the ability to think and act quickly often providing advice under pressurised situations and in doing so have the ability to build trusted senior relationships across the Council.

Set within the a broader Democratic, Governance and Resilience team the successful candidate will have a rare opportunity to play a crucial role at the heart of the capital city of Scotland ensuring that the City of Edinburgh Council delivers its Business Plan and wider responsibilities, supporting the elected members who develop and drive that agenda.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page

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