This is an exciting opportunity to join small and busy governance team, based within the Corporate Services division.
About the Team
The team provides a wide range of corporate governance services, including overseeing the effective system of governance, risk management and internal control within the Government Internal Audit Agency, leading on planning and reporting, producing the Agency's Corporate Plan and its Annual Report and Accounts, along with oversight of the Agency's correspondence system.
About the Job
This is a pivotal role within the team with responsibility for leading on matters relating to corporate governance and correspondence. This is a high-profile role across the Agency working side by side with senior colleagues to deliver a seamless, high-quality internal governance function. The postholder will be the Agency's lead on propriety and ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting. The post holder will create, maintain, and provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues across the Agency on the application of policies, including close working with Directors and Non-Executive Board Members.
About You
Our successful candidate will have :
- Experience of professionally handling and responding to external correspondence (such as complaints and/or freedom of information requests) according to required timescales and to high standards.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills to ensure delivery to meet deadlines. This will be evidenced by prior experience of managing reactive and proactive workloads where it has been necessary to prioritising effectively, and to adapt and be resilient to evolving requirements.
- A confident decision maker, exercising good judgement and with experience of providing high quality advice to a wide range of colleagues, including senior stakeholders.
- Taking the initiative to lead on areas of responsibility with a positive approach to solving problems. This will be evidenced with a strong track record of delivering good administrative processes and/or reviewing processes to deliver improvements or efficiencies.
- The highest level of personal integrity and discretion with experience of handling sensitive information.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to clearly articulate complex information, both verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences. A strong team player, with a proven ability to successfully work with others to deliver key cross-organisational projects.
About Us
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and we welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly, for example, part-time, term time or job share working.
GIAA has an expectation for all colleagues to attend their local workplace for a minimum of 60% of their working week. This enables all our people to benefit from the positivity and enhanced wellbeing of spending time with colleagues and teammates and to combine this with individual working when this is most beneficial for specific activities. Workplace attendance is usually your local GIAA office location and can also include time spent attending our customers' sites. For people with a part-time or compressed hours working pattern our expectation for 60% workplace attendance would be applied on a pro-rata basis.
Benefits of working for the Government Internal Audit Agency
- Competitive salaries and in year rewards
- Flexible working
- Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 26.6%.
- Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street.
- Paid volunteering days
- Season ticket loans/Cycle to work scheme
- Free eyesight test
- Family friendly HR policies
- 25 days annual leave, increasing one day each year to 30 days after 5 years' service For more information about the GIAA, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.
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