Education Governance Officer

1 month ago


Croydon, United Kingdom Croydon Council Full time

Education Governance provide a high-quality clerking service for all schools and their Governing Boards to support them in providing the best education possible for their children and young people. We are expanding our successful clerking service team and are looking to recruit an Education Governance Officer on a full time, term time contract, to start as soon as possible.

We want to recruit a friendly, assertive and self-starting individual who enjoys challenging situations and has the motivation to work within a thriving and busy clerking service. They must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, good time management and prioritisation skills as well as the ability to motivate others and achieve results.

We are also looking for the successful person to have:

- Good knowledge of current education and governance legislation.
- Extensive experience of education governance clerking in maintained schools, single academies and multi academy trusts.
- Significant experience of building and developing effective working relationships with a diverse range of people.
- Solid administration experience including, but not limited to, taking and typing up minutes, producing agendas, collation and maintenance of various Board documents.

The successful person will be the named clerk to some Governing Boards as well as undertake Governor Panel work. As the work is dependent on the needs of the service, flexibility is essential.

Full time 36 hours per week

Application Deadline: Sunday 12th November 2023 at 23.59pm

Shortlisting: week beginning 13th November

Interviews: Monday 20th November 2023 at Bernard Weatherill House.

**Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Statement**

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.



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