Group Governance and Risk Manager

About the role

You will play a pivotal role in enabling our mission to improve lives and places, ensuring that LHCPG operates with transparency, integrity and accountability to reflect our values across our business in support of the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Provide authoritative and practical governance advice to the Board and Senior Leaders helping them fulfill their mandatory obligations and ensuring an effective governance framework in practice - from decision-making through to delivery - across the whole organisation.
• Serve as the main contact for any privacy enquiries.
• Support Board development through induction, engagement, succession planning and performance review activity.
• Maintain accurate governance records, including conflicts of interest, tenure, appointments and decision trails.
• Manage relationships with external governance and legal advisers.
• Earn a clear, practical approach to risk management and mitigation, ensuring every team across our multi-site operation is clear on their responsibilities and takes informed decisions.
• Owning and overseeing the corporate governance policy suite and ensuring all necessary processes are in place to deliver strong governance, audit and assurance oversight.
• As the Data Protection Officer, maintain UK GDPR compliance, ROPA and DPIA processes, IT, digital and security policies.

Requirements

Your proven track record in a highly commercial, agile and fast paced corporate environment playing a key role in shaping and leading governance and risk management will enable you to demonstrate strong capability in applying appropriate models of governance to a customer-focused, service provider in the highly competitive procurement sector.

You will be an established governance professional who operates confidently with senior stakeholders while maintaining independence, discretion and sound judgement.

Qualifications

• A recognised governance qualification.
• A high level of IT literacy, adept with all aspects of MS Office suite.
• Strong Board and committee skills, including preparing papers, reports, minutes and decision records.
• A proven track record of providing high-quality governance support and trusted advice to Boards and Committees.
• Experience in a proactive Company Secretariat or Governance function within a highly professional and demanding environment.
• Knowledge and experience of the specific requirements of the not-for-profit and charity sector.
• Experience in a Data Protection Officer role, with sound knowledge of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Skills

• Strategic thinking capability and sound judgement to lead through complexity and ambiguity.
• Well-developed organisation skills to handle competing priorities and operate effectively as an advisor at senior executive level and to the Board.

Benefits

• Salary from £66.2K per annum.
• Wellbeing allowance of £300 per annum via a portal (taxable).
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• 34 days holiday plus bank holidays, option to buy more, plus birthday leave.
• Private Medical Insurance and Health Cash Plan after probation (taxable).
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay (after 1 year of service).
• 10 days per year 'work from anywhere' opportunity.
• 1.5 days personal volunteering leave and team volunteering opportunities.
• £1000 pa individual training budget for professional development support.
• Generous pension arrangements.