Governance and Compliance Coordinator

Job Details

Governance and Compliance Coordinator role

Housing sector
Full time permanent role
Salary - £38,000 to £40,000 pro rata
6 month fixed term contract – option to extend thereafter
Interviews asap
Offices in Stratford, East London
This is a fully office based role – NO remote or hybrid working

Duties:

• Providing administrative support to the Boards and managing logistics including organising the calendar of meetings, agendas, taking minutes for Board meetings and action and decision logging.
• Manage Board recruitment, appointment (onboarding), appraisal and resignation (offboarding) processes.
• Support governance audits and develop improvement plans.
• Maintain the policy tracker and work with procurement on contract registers.
• Assist the Executive team with risk registers.
• Coordinating and ensuring compliance with any relevant external standards. This includes maintaining a compliance register and contracts register.

Key requirements:

• This role is to support the Board by managing governance, regulatory and legislative compliance services.
• Ideally you will have a good understanding of the National Housing Federation (NHF) code of governance and have the ability to complete the assessment
• You will support the directors to report and regularly communicate with the regulator of social housing (RSH)
• You will have experience working in a governance or compliance role. Some legal experience is desirable but not essential
• You will have excellent time management and organisational skills and a high understanding of the need for confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with all stakeholders in a diplomatic and professional manner
• In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation
• You will have experience with Board and Committee meetings and with senior stake holders, including agenda writing, minute taking, organising meetings and taking action-points

Benefits include attractive annual leave entitlement, employee assistance programme, well being initiatives and much more !