Leicester City Council
Governor Support Officer
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Reference: REQ7877
Description
Part Time / 18.5 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 12 months due to funding
All maintained schools report to a governing board, the governing board acts as the school's critical friend and makes strategic decisions that ensure the school is well led, financially stable, legally compliant and focused on delivering the best outcomes for pupils. All governing boards are supported by a governance professional who will ensure that schools meet their statutory duties.
The Governor Services team offers this support many schools across Leicester City, whilst also providing professional advice and guidance to governing boards, headteachers and schools.
The role of the Governor Support Officer is instrumental in guiding supporting governing boards and ensuring that they meet their statutory duties.
Training that is Accredited by the Chartered Governance Institute is available.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a governance professional, administrative and professional clerking support to schools and provide efficient governance advice governing boards to ensure statutory duties are met. You will plan, prepare and organise meetings and hearings ensuring governors receive the information they need in a timely manner to allow the board to make effective use of their time and focus on strategic matters.
- You will be able to work under your own initiative, manage deadlines and be responsible for maintaining comprehensive governing board records, including governing board minutes and reports and full governing board membership and training records in accordance with data protection, freedom of information and school governance regulations with the ability to remain impartial and respect confidentiality at all times.
- You will work closely with a number of schools and establish strong working relationships with the Chair of the Board, the Headteacher and the Board members of your assigned schools, your aim being to establish a relationship based on mutual respect and trust.
- Working with governing boards may require attendance at meetings that are out of the normal office hours and therefore you will be given the flexibility to complete your hours in order to meet the demand of the governing board.
- You will have the flexibility of hybrid working in order to support you in managing your workloads.
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What You’ll Need
- Excellent planning and organisational skills in order to meet all statutory and SLA timescales
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to be able to deal with matters of a sensitive and confidential nature
- The ability to work as part of a team as well as alone and with minimum supervision
- The ability to work flexibly
- Able to undertake training for the role
- Ability to demonstrate our values and behaviours
- Professional credibility through proven relevant experience (not essential)
What We Can Offer You
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
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We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Faye Haldane, Governor Services Manager on 0116 454 6179
Interviews / Assessments will take place on week commencing 14th of September
Region: Central
Location: New Parks House
Salary: GBP26,403 - GBP28,142 Per Year (to be pro rated)
Package: Total benefit value to be pro rated (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP38,374.53
Contractual hours: 18.5
Basis: Part time,
Part Time / 18.5 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 12 months due to funding
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