Secretary - Committee (F1302n)

**Details**: **Reference number**: 194911 **Salary**: £29,385 - £34,571 **Grade**: Other **Contract type**: Permanent **Type of role**: Secretarial **Working pattern**: Flexible working, Full-time **Number of posts**: 1 ***: Location Bristol, South West (region), BS1 6EH : Cambridge, East of England (region), CB24 3EN : Coventry, West Midlands (region), CV1 2GN : Liverpool, North West (region), L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber (region), LS11 9AT : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East (region), NE4 5BZ : Crawley, South East (region), RH10 1UZ About the job **Summary**: Working in a team with Mary Carter our Board Secretary and a small team of other Committee Secretaries, you will play a critical role in supporting the Board and Executive. You will be joining our small but crucial team, who are committed to making positive change in how Homes England makes decisions. **Job description**: Mary Carter is believes in delivering a first-class customer service to stakeholders, providing crucial support and advice, and taking an innovative and creative approach to governance issues. Mary values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within the team. This is a rare chance to shape the future governance structures of a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional team you will provide efficient, consistent and effective governance support and have the opportunity to help evolve those structures in future. The role will support the delivery of key decision making structures across the Agency. There are also exciting development projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the Governance offering. **Responsibilities**: Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders on the Board and Executive, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate. You'll be comfortable supporting the Board Secretary and Assistant Director of Governance with complex governance issues. You will be proficient in providing secretariat services, and governance advice. Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as the Secretariat team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade. As an experienced professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. **Benefits**: Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include: Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays. Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours. Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health. Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees. We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave. Things you need to know **Security**: People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. **Selection process details**: Things you need to know How to apply? Security Selection process details For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description. Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here: Nationality requirements Working for the Civil Service Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. Further information Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job contact: Name: Recruitment Tea