Director of Governance and Deputy Company Secretary

**Job Title**:Director of Governance and Deputy Company Secretary
**Contract Type**:Permanent
**Salary**:£130,000 - £135,000 per annum
**Working Hours**:35 Hours per week
**Working Pattern**:Flexible Monday-Friday/Hybrid
**Location**:UK wide with regular travel to Liverpool and London

**If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter.**

**The difference you will make as the Director of Governance and Deputy Company Secretary**

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Director of Governance to join our leadership team and report directly to the Executive Director of Corporate Services. This role will oversee the Governance, Legal and Compliance & Assurance functions and provide support to develop corporate governance across the Group. You will serve as trusted advisor to Executive Directors, Board, and Committees on all Governance related topics.

As a highly regulated and customer focussed business, this role is crucial for ensuring the organisation has truly effective governance, receives expert and pragmatic legal advice, and maintains the highest standards of compliance across the Group.

**About you**

**Why Riverside?**

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

**Working with us, you’ll enjoy**:

- Competitive pay & generous pension
- 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options available
- Investment in your learning, personal development and technologyA wide range of benefits

**Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside**:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.

Riverside is a Disability Confident Employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicant who declares they have a disability. If the applicant meets the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.
- This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview. _

**Role Profile**

**Leading Our People**
- To lead in such a way as to have a positive impact on our people. Role modelling Our Riverside Way, ensuring our ways of working are embedded in all we do and ensuring the achievement of our aspired culture.
- Build a diverse, high performing, and customer focused team with modern ways of working and the right structures, knowledge, behaviours and capabilities that enables the effective execution of our vision, strategy, and goals. Partner with People Services to ensure that we are delivering on our people promises, develop area people plan that continually looks for leading-edge and innovative solutions to improving our people experience.
- To conduct regular customer needs assessment of the team’s offering and performance to internal stakeholders to ensure the team is responding to the changing needs of the organisation.

**Leading Our Strategy, Service & Solution Delivery**
- Develop and lead the Group’s governance strategy, working very closely with the Chief Executive, the Governance & Remuneration Committee and Group Board supporting a high standard of governance which develops as regulatory and legal frameworks change.
- Provide strategic and expert advice to boards, committees, executive directors and directors across the Group, keeping under review legal, compliance, regulatory and corporate governance developments that might affect the Group, ensuring that the impact is understood and communicated widely to the full range of stakeholders.
- Act as Deputy Company Secretary to all parts of the Group as well as the lead officer for joint ventures and subsidiaries, responsible for reporting and rationalisation, ensuring all entities comply with their constitutional arrangements, regulatory and legal requirements, through excellent company secretarial policies and procedures.
- Be a key member of the senior team which interfaces with the Social Housing Regulator, leading the preparation and completion of In-Depth Assessments for governance and viability gradings and whatever emerges around consumer regulation testing and review.
- Drive a culture of continuous service improvement, innovation and forward thin