Governance Co-ordinator

Permanent – 36.25 Hours – Full Time - The post holder will be expected to regularly attend meetings outside of normal working hours and occasional weekend work will be required

RBH currently have an opportunity for an Governance Co-ordinator to join our Governance Service to ensure that effective and efficient support is maintained to the Governing Bodies

What you will be doing:

You will support the Society’s mutual governance structure in a wide range of activities providing a secretariat service, planning and coordinating events, facilitation of meetings and responding to queries.

In this role you will Assist the Governance Manager and Secretary in the administration of governance services and processes in compliance with the Society’s Mutual.

This role is generally 10% of time out on visits to other RBH locations and 10% on project work.

Work may be home, office and field based. Flexibility is required to meet the needs of the society.

Who are we looking for?

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to deal with customers including external stakeholders to arrange and meet challenging time bound objectives.
• Organisational skills with the ability to forward plan, balance priorities and co-ordinate events.
• Attention to detail with the ability to produce documents to a high standard.
• The ability to find innovative solutions and to adapt and prioritise deadlines with competing tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Positively embrace change and is adaptable to the ever-changing social housing sector.
• The ability to understand discussions in a debating forum and to summarise them and accurately record the decisions in writing.
• The ability to draft and verbally present detailed and accurate written reports for governance issues.
• Ability to identify risks and be able to react to these quickly and appropriately.
• The ability to set and maintain high standards for all matters relating to RBH Governance

What's in it for you?

As an RBH employee, you will receive a range of fantastic benefits, including: -

• SMART working arrangements
• Holiday entitlement – 30 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays, with an additional 5 days after completion of five years’ service. Part time employees will receive a pro rata entitlement.
• Ability to purchase up to an additional 5 days leave per year.
• A quality defined contribution pension scheme, with salary exchange and RBH matches your contributions up to 8%
• Healthcare – automatic enrolment into a health care cash plan, covering optical and dental costs, consultation fees and physio to name but a few.
• You will also have access to our Employment Assistance Programme with a 24-hour confidential counselling support for both personal and work-related issues.
• Plus, many more

Please refer to the attached Job Description upon completing your application

Please note, should we receive a high volume of applications, we may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application