Estates Governance and Committee Officer

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06: £30,619 - £35,308 per annum**

**Corporate Services Group / Estates Department**

**Open Ended Contract: Permanent**

**Full Time Contract: 35 hours per week**

The Estates Department is looking to recruit a Governance and Committee Officer to provide high quality, efficient, flexible and professional business support within the Estates Department. The role will support the Policy and Governance Manager to deliver a range of Estates related committee and governance functions.

**The Opportunity**:
As part of the Estates Business Services Team, the role of the Estates Governance and Committee Officer is to provide high quality, efficient, flexible and professional business support within the Estates Department. The post holder will support the Policy and Governance Manager to deliver a range of Estates related committee and governance functions across the Estates Department.

Working within the Estates Business Services Team and line managed by the Policy and Governance Manager, the Estates Governance and Committee Officer will interface with senior colleagues from across the University community on a daily basis, the role will require considerable multi-tasking and the ability to judge competing requirements carefully.

The post-holder will provide governance support to one Estates related University governance committee (including the urgent decision making group) and one sub-group of the Committee. They each meet four times per year. The post-holder will also provide governance support to a variety of internal Estates related governance forums.

The post-holder manages the process for responding to Estates Department Freedom of Information Requests and Customer Complaints. The Department receives on average 67 Freedom of Information requests and 24 Customer Complaints each year.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Executive level business support experience, including senior board level secretariat support.
- An understanding of the implications surrounding Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Equalities legislation.
- Strong IT skills including comprehensive knowledge of software packages, PowerPoint and Microsoft Office.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills including the ability to multi-task.
- Excellence in building and maintaining the confidence of others including senior management and external contacts.

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held **week commencing 7 August 2023.**

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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