Governance Officer

Do you have at least three years’ experience in Corporate Governance or on complex infrastructure programmes?

We are looking for an experienced Governance Professional to join our Governance team at AWE Nuclear Security Technologies.

Salary range starts at: £36,540 to £49,000 (This is open to negotiation for the right person)

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke

Who are we looking for?
- Proven ability of providing Secretariat support to Executive level meetings to provide accurately documented outputs, including timely production of minutes.
- Cascading decisions and pursuing actions to a satisfactory conclusion.
- Managing all submissions to governance meetings, ensuring that reports and documents are proactively planned, quality controlled for content and submitted on time, to facilitate agile decision making.
- Management of all governance meeting arrangements to ensure that logistics are well managed, and meetings achieve their objectives.
- Able to adapt to changing needs and priorities, to multi-task and work to challenging deadlines and remain highly resilient.
- Confident in providing professional governance advice to key stakeholders in accordance with company policies and governance best practice.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:

- A minimum of three years’ experience as part of Company Secretariat function supporting senior level governance meetings would be ideal
- Working within a highly regulated environment
- Experience of working on a complex infrastructure programme is key for the Programme Governance & Secretariat Officer role.

Key Accountabilities for our Governance Professionals:

- Prepare, co-ordinate and circulate governance meeting agendas, reporting packs and papers, formatting, and proof-reading document submissions.
- Equip all attendees with the necessary arrangements and materials.
- Ensure outputs, including minutes, actions, and decisions, are accurately documented, and followed up with relevant members.
- Proactively identify governance priorities and related risks, anticipate issues which may arise and propose suggested mitigations.
- Lead on the drafting of decisions and actions arising from specific governance meetings.
- Maintain and preserve Secretariat records in a managed and retrievable way, in line with our policies and procedures.
- Ensure our Governance continuously reflects highest standards of best practice.
- Work collegiately with diverse stakeholders including senior executive and non-executive directors.
- Coordinate all practical arrangements for video conferencing, room bookings and catering.
- Execute any additional duties/one-off projects as requested by Assistant Company Secretary/Programme Governance and Secretariat Lead.

Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:
AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

- 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work.
- 270 hours holiday
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- A truly meaningful role where your hard work impacts on our mission to keep the nation safe and secure.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Important things you need to know:

- We want you to feel comfortable and to shine. Please let us know if you need any adjustments/accommodations during your recruitment journey.
- Interviews typically take place over Teams and are generally a 1 stage process.

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Important things you need to know:

- Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.