Head of Governance

2 weeks ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom SYHA Full time

**Head of Governance & Company Secretary**

**Permanent / Full Time / Hybrid working**

**Circa £60k (consisting of salary scale 6B £54,950, plus market uplift)**

**Working hours: 37 per week**
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Governance to work with our Executive team and Board to develop and improve South Yorkshire Housing Association’s (SYHA) approach to excellent governance. We are a forward thinking, values driven housing association, and this role is based in our head office in the heart of Sheffield._

We have a legacy that spans over 50 years of providing great quality housing and a broad range of services to communities in the Sheffield City Region. Our purpose is for our customers to **settle at home, live well and realise their potential**, and believe that the need for the innovative services we provide alongside our homes is as strong as ever. We currently have 5,700 homes across a diverse range of properties, an employee team of c.550, and provide services to over 10,000 customers each year.

We are proud of our excellent homes and services, and we want to match this with excellence in the processes, controls and systems that ensure sound governance and decision making. We have recently been regraded by our regulator and are implementing a clear and ambitious plan to ensure that we work towards and achieve the highest grading of governance. We are not simply looking for compliance, we want to establish a governance function that will deliver systematic change in how governance and decision making happens throughout our organisation.

If you are someone who loves to work in an organisation that has real purpose, and you relish the challenge of leading systematic change then this is the role for you.

**More about the role**:
Reporting directly into the CEO of SYHA, this post will provide strategic corporate governance advice and operational company secretarial support to the Board, the Executive and across the business. It will drive an improved approach to governance that meets or exceeds best practice.

Longer term the post will develop and be responsible for a governance team to support the role and SYHA’s ambitions.


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