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Governance and Risk Manager

2 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND Full time
About the Role

This is a key position supporting the Head of Governance, Compliance and Risk in managing a comprehensive central governance service across the College.

The role involves providing professional governance and secretariat support to the Council and the Board of Trustees and their main committees, including setting board agendas in line with strategic priorities and ensuring that papers are prepared in a timely fashion and address the required issues effectively.

The post holder will also support the College's risk management function, ensuring the development and embedding of the College's risk management policy and procedures, and reporting to the Trustees and Audit and Risk Committee.

The role requires managing a wide range of relationships with senior stakeholders, including Council and Trustee members, Executive Directors, and other senior staff, as well as maintaining relationships across the College at all levels.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage processes to ensure that agendas, papers, minutes, and actions are prepared and issued within required timelines.
  • Ensure that board and committee minutes are prepared to a high standard, and actions are completed in a timely manner.
  • Quality assure board submissions to ensure they meet required quality standards, issues are appropriately explained, and decision recommendations are valid.
  • Manage board attendance to ensure that all board meetings are quorate and board members have access to any necessary subject matter expertise.
  • Forward plan meetings and business schedules and brief Chairs as appropriate.
  • Contribute to the development of the College's governance framework, including the production of the governance handbook and drafting and review of terms of reference, leading on key projects as appropriate.
  • Support and manage the board and committee appointment, induction, and review process.
  • Support the Head of Governance, Compliance and Risk to review, develop, and implement the College's risk management policy and framework.
  • Facilitate risk management discussions with colleagues across the College.
  • Maintain the College's risk register and ensure it focuses on key risks, and is accurate and up-to-date.
  • Lead on the development of a communication programme to support the embedding of risk across the College.
  • Develop and maintain the Internal Audit Actions Tracker and update to report to the Audit and Risk Committee.
  • Support the Head of Governance, Compliance and Risk with additional projects.
About You
  • Experience of providing professional governance services and acting as secretariat to high-level meetings, working within established governance frameworks and providing support and guidance to those attending the meetings.
  • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to summarise complex discussions.
  • Ability to manage own projects, problem-solve, and develop solutions.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and team working skills.
  • Proactive and flexible in managing workloads, tight deadlines, and competing priorities.
  • Excellent administrative and organisational skills, demonstrating ability to deliver work on time and to a high standard, consistently meeting targets, planning ahead, and prioritising.
  • Ability to confidently liaise with both internal and external senior officials and to work collaboratively with stakeholders and partner organisations, and maintain good relationships.
  • Experience of Risk Management – desirable.