Governance Officer

5 months ago


Barnsley, United Kingdom SY Pensions Full time

**Governance Officer**

**Full Time, Permanent**

**£34,834 to £36,648 per annum**

**Based in Barnsley with Opportunity for Hybrid Working**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our small, friendly, and forward-looking Governance team in this well -respected, award-winning organisation managing a £10 billion pension fund. If you’re looking for a role involving variety, challenge and autonomy, where you will lead on the co-ordination and delivery of a high quality democratic support service to our Authority and Local Pension Board members, then this could be the role for you.

**Who we are**:
We are both a local authority and a pension fund and we’re unique within the Local Government Pension Scheme as the only democratically accountable single purpose pension organisation in the UK.As a local government body, we have a public sector ethos and place a great deal of importance on our organisational Values and Behaviours - which are all about being honest and accountable, professional, progressive, and empowering.

We have a culture that encourages work-life balance, and we offer flexible working hours and hybrid office / home working.Our newly refurbished Barnsley office provides a state-of-the-art working environment; and with on-site parking and located within 10 minutes’ walk of both the train and bus stations, it makes us easily accessible.At SYPA we are big on your professional development, you’ll have a learning and development plan, and we’ll support you to keep your CPD updated.

**What you'll be doing**:
As the organisation’s Governance Officer, you will be central to driving the highly effective operation of the decision making arrangements and scrutiny processes of the Authority, providing an excellent democratic support service to all our Authority and Local Pension Board members.

You will be responsible for employing and developing a suite of processes and procedures to manage the work programmes, agenda and minutes production, and recording of decisions taken at the formal Authority, its committees and the Local Pension Board. You’ll support all the members of these bodies throughout the municipal year, you will be involved with identifying member learning and development needs and you’ll take responsibility for co-ordinating the scheduling and provision of relevant training.

In addition to the key relationships you’ll have with our members, you will of course work closely with the Director and other members of our Senior Management Team, with Heads of Functions and Service Managers and other colleagues across the organisation. Externally, you’ll liaise and collaborate with the democratic services teams in the four Councils across South Yorkshire, our partners in the Border to Coast Pensions Partnership and other relevant stakeholders.

You’ll also contribute to the Governance team’s work in the areas of information governance and policy compliance.



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