Head of Governance

3 weeks ago

Oldham, Oldham, United Kingdom Oldham Council Full time
Job Title: Head of Governance

Oldham Council is seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to join our team as the Head of Governance. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of governance in our borough and work closely with elected councillors and senior leaders to ensure our governance frameworks operate smoothly, transparently, and in compliance with the highest legal standards.

About the Role

The Head of Governance will lead a talented team across key areas including Democratic Services, Elections, Land Charges, and Executive Services Support. As a key advisor on legislative governance, you will ensure our constitution and decision-making processes are accessible, compliant, and fit for purpose. Your leadership will help shape the future of how Oldham operates, from elections and civic responsibilities to managing complex governance frameworks, empowering our Scrutiny function, and working closely with Greater Manchester Combined Authority on regional governance matters.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead, develop and manage a team of officers in the Governance team who are responsible for advising, supporting and services the Council's formal governance, decision making and scrutiny processes and civic and election functions.
  • Be the Council's designated Scrutiny Officer in accordance with the Local Government, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 and provide constructive and proactive challenge to the council decision-making function.
  • Ensure the Council's constitution and governance procedures are fit for purpose, compliant with legislation, accessible and well understood by internal and external stakeholders, including developing and providing guidance and training where appropriate and support the ongoing reviewing and updating of the constitution as needed with elected members and the councils monitoring officer.
  • Ensure elected Councillors are effectively supported and developed through the shaping and delivering of an effective member training, induction, development and support offer, and support arrangements to fulfil their roles as democratically elected representatives.
  • Ensure the planning and execution of elections are in accordance with legislation and electoral commission guidance lines and best practices.
  • Be responsible for the effective running of the Delegated Decision Reporting and Forward Planning process in line with statutory and legislative requirements.
Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

  • Experience of delivering high quality Governance within a large and complex organisation.
  • Detailed legislative knowledge of council constitutions, and the law surrounding council governance, e.g.; Local Government Acts and the Localism Act.
  • Able to be creative and think through issues and problems through the use of theoretical, conceptual and technical knowledge to find practical solutions and think through issues and problems not dealt with before to a conclusion.
About Us

Oldham Council is committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

The Council has a clear set of Behaviours, which outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses. Internally we have translated these into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view these Behaviours, along with staff benefits on our Greater.Jobs pages Working for Oldham

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