Corporate Governance Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 279857**Salary**:

- £34,561**Job grade**:

- Other- R&O 9 Lead Associate**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Governance, Risk and Assurance (GRA)**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Brighton, South East England, BN1 4DWAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About us**

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud and Women’s Network which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. Our People and Culture Strategy enables the delivery by creating a great place to work and a brilliant employee experience. We are at the start of that journey; join us to find out what part you can play.

**Job description**:
**Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to join our newly-established Governance, Risk and Assurance (GRA) directorate, which is responsible for driving the continuous development of TPR’s governance structures and processes. As Corporate Governance Business Partner you will be part of a friendly, professional and fun Corporate Secretariat team. You will be responsible for running and managing one or more of our senior committees, you will own and manage key central government reporting requirements and you will provide advice and support on governance good practice and continuous improvement throughout the organisation.

You’ll have excellent written English, a keen eye for detail and be a practised minute taker. You’ll also be confident at identifying opportunities for improving current systems and developing tools and resources to help improve the corporate governance function. You will have the ability and confidence to simultaneously engage with and manage the expectations of stakeholders at all levels, and to build effective, mutually supportive relationships across TPR.

This is a fantastic career development opportunity within corporate governance, and in support of TPR’s corporate strategy as we work to put pension savers at the heart of all we do.

**Responsibilities**

You will:

- Effectively run and manage one or more senior committees and/or the Board (working with and managing senior stakeholders, arranging meetings, drafting agendas, co-ordinating paper packs, taking formal meeting minutes)
- Demonstrate best practice, enable and support continuous improvement across the business, for example by providing templates, written guidance, advice and resources on paper-writing and governance
- Work with the Board Secretary, Head of Corporate Governance and Board Chair to support non-executive directors through induction, training and continuous development (acting as a first point of contact for new members, managing the induction process for new Board members, providing information, setting up introductory meetings, helping to design, arrange and signpost training)
- Own and manage key central government reporting requirements, including the development of processes and reporting mechanisms, working with / supported by the Head of Corporate Governance and the Board Secretary,
- Ensure internal and external online content is up to date

**Person specification**:
**Essential and desirable criteria**
- At least three years’ experience as a minute-taker and senior administrator at Board or executive level in a large and complex organisation
- Experience of developing and delivering template documents, guidance and training
- Strong communication skills including excellent written English.

**Person specification**
- Process driven with excellent attention to detail
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Proactive and flexible
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative
- Calm under pressure
- Negotiating and stakeholder management skills
- Communication skills at all levels both written and verbal

**Benefits**:
**Salary and benefits**:
As well as a salary of £34,561 we offer:

- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised